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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own…
NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday over the fate of…
theGRIO REPORT - Hundreds of people turned out Wednesday to celebrate the life of civil rights activist Evelyn Lowery who…
theGRIO REPORT - Friends, family and the civil rights community have been paying tribute to Evelyn Gibson Lowery who died…
ATLANTA -- Evelyn Lowery, wife of civil rights leader Dr. Joseph Lowery, died Thursday morning. Mrs. Lowery suffered a massive…
ESSAY - The anniversary of the brutal murder of four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama…
Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson: 2 black youths killed in 1963 often overshadowed, but not forgotten
theGRIO REPORT - The names Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson may not be familiar to many, but they played an…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate leaders on Tuesday awarded Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in the…
OPINION - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous recently announced he will step down from his position leading the…
MSNBC - In an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shared her experiences growing up…
theGRIO Q&A - Gary Younge's latest work reflects on critical moments leading up to King's powerful -- and unexpectedly iconic…
OPINION - Certainly, no party can claim Dr. King. But these days, some parties come much closer than others...
NEW YORK (AP) — When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom...
ANALYSIS - We forget that civil rights was a contested process, and that assumptions about black violence made the public…
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — It has been a half-century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed a dream that…
theGRIO REPORT - A Moral Monday gathering in Charlotte this week channeled sights and sounds of the March on Washington…
theGRIO REPORT - Here are the reflections of a few of those thousands, who were witnesses to what many call…