Civil Rights Movement

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October 23, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own…
October 16, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte sued the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday over the fate of…
October 3, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Hundreds of people turned out Wednesday to celebrate the life of civil rights activist Evelyn Lowery who…
September 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Friends, family and the civil rights community have been paying tribute to Evelyn Gibson Lowery who died…
September 26, 2013
ATLANTA -- Evelyn Lowery, wife of civil rights leader Dr. Joseph Lowery, died Thursday morning. Mrs. Lowery suffered a massive…
September 15, 2013
ESSAY - The anniversary of the brutal murder of four girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama…
September 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The names Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson may not be familiar to many, but they played an…
September 11, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King…
September 11, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate leaders on Tuesday awarded Congress' highest civilian honor to four girls killed in the…
September 9, 2013
OPINION - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous recently announced he will step down from his position leading the…
September 6, 2013
MSNBC - In an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shared her experiences growing up…
August 28, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - Gary Younge's latest work reflects on critical moments leading up to King's powerful -- and unexpectedly iconic…
August 28, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Actor/singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte talks about President Obama's current foreign policies and says 'Dr.…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - We asked theGrio.com users that question and more in an exclusive survey, and their poignant and candid…
August 27, 2013
OPINION - Certainly, no party can claim Dr. King. But these days, some parties come much closer than others...
August 26, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom...
August 25, 2013
ANALYSIS - We forget that civil rights was a contested process, and that assumptions about black violence made the public…
August 24, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — It has been a half-century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed a dream that…
August 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Moral Monday gathering in Charlotte this week channeled sights and sounds of the March on Washington…
August 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Here are the reflections of a few of those thousands, who were witnesses to what many call…