Civil Rights Movement

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August 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Chicagoans reflect on the historic event 50 years ago and how it feels to have a “hometown…
August 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week, the first black U.S. president, a living symbol of the racial progress civil rights leader…
August 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the…
August 19, 2013
theGRIO SURVEY - Now 50 years later, theGrio wants to know your impressions of this legacy and in your mind,…
August 16, 2013
MSNBC - On Thursday’s PoliticsNation, Lee Daniel's joined Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss his latest movie 'The Butler'...
August 15, 2013
OPINION - With the imprisonment of former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Martin…
August 13, 2013
U.S. Rep. John Lewis is paying homage to a 1950s comic book in telling his life story in a graphic…
August 13, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state panel has proposed striking segregationist language from Alabama's 1901 constitution that mandates separate schools…
August 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Bayard Rustin, one of the most important, yet unheralded, figures in the civil rights movement will be…
August 8, 2013
ANALYSIS - The address President Obama delivers later this month at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington could…
August 7, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will speak later this month at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the…
August 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Bayard Rustin was a key figure during 1960s -- he was a man who fought in social…
July 31, 2013
OPINION - if anyone knows if Jay-Z’s quote “my presence is charity” has any truth to it, it is Harry…
July 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - It’s been more than 53 years since Feb. 1, 1960, the day when Franklin McCain, David Richmond,…
July 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Today marks what would have been the 72nd birthday of Emmett Till, the African-American boy whose tragic…
July 24, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — Hearing the screams of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till from inside a Mississippi barn left a teenage…
July 23, 2013
OPINION - As the first African American president, Obama was able to speak to the experiences of black Americans in…
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Democratic Rep. John Lewis drew a large crowd in one of his more unusual appearances...
July 17, 2013
OPINION - The mood following the verdict in the case of Florida v. George Zimmerman is not politics as usual...
July 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As Kentucky Senator Rand Paul weighs the possibility of a 2016 presidential run, his past—and present—record on…