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theGRIO REPORT - Chicagoans reflect on the historic event 50 years ago and how it feels to have a “hometown…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week, the first black U.S. president, a living symbol of the racial progress civil rights leader…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the…
theGRIO SURVEY - Now 50 years later, theGrio wants to know your impressions of this legacy and in your mind,…
MSNBC - On Thursday’s PoliticsNation, Lee Daniel's joined Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss his latest movie 'The Butler'...
OPINION - With the imprisonment of former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Martin…
U.S. Rep. John Lewis is paying homage to a 1950s comic book in telling his life story in a graphic…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state panel has proposed striking segregationist language from Alabama's 1901 constitution that mandates separate schools…
theGRIO REPORT - Bayard Rustin was a key figure during 1960s -- he was a man who fought in social…
OPINION - if anyone knows if Jay-Z’s quote “my presence is charity” has any truth to it, it is Harry…
theGRIO REPORT - Today marks what would have been the 72nd birthday of Emmett Till, the African-American boy whose tragic…
CHICAGO (AP) — Hearing the screams of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till from inside a Mississippi barn left a teenage…
theGRIO REPORT - Democratic Rep. John Lewis drew a large crowd in one of his more unusual appearances...
OPINION - The mood following the verdict in the case of Florida v. George Zimmerman is not politics as usual...
theGRIO REPORT - As Kentucky Senator Rand Paul weighs the possibility of a 2016 presidential run, his past—and present—record on…