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March 10, 2014
VIDEO - The 49th annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, to mark the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, was held this…
March 6, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama's nomination of civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division…
March 5, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Chirlane McCray, who already wields more influence than any New York City first lady in recent…
March 5, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to head the Justice Department's civil rights division has failed a Senate test…
February 20, 2014
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The FBI says a black civil rights activist was killed during the 1973 occupation of…
February 18, 2014
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The FBI on Tuesday was helping investigate who tied a noose around the neck of a…
February 17, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter recently walked up to the pulpit of the Atlanta church where her…
January 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Over the last few months, Obama’s administration, with little fanfare, has enacted a series of unabashedly liberal…
December 19, 2013
OPINION - The golden age of black lawyers educated at HBCUs defending the rights of subjugated communities is waning. Thurgood…
December 7, 2013
MSNBC -- Martin Luther King Jr. never got to see himself canonized as a saint. When he was struck by…
December 6, 2013
ANALYSIS - They are in many ways kindred spirits, patient, confident men who rose to power, employing their unifying styles…
December 5, 2013
SLIDESHOW - In honor of Nelson Mandela's 92nd birthday, theGrio invites you on an emotional journey through seven decades of…
December 5, 2013
OPINION - Although the 95-year-old giant is no longer with us physically, leaving us after a period of deteriorating health,…
November 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On the 50th anniversary of his assassination, theGrio's Lilly Workneh discussed Kennedy's life and legacy, as they…
November 22, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - For Abraham Bolden, protecting President John F. Kennedy in 1961 was a "miracle," for someone who grew…
November 21, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The mother of a 14-year-old says police officers went too far after arresting her son last Tuesday…
November 21, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Jesus, Dr. Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy were the three portraits that hung on the…
November 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) has released a new analysis detailing the significant gap in wages…
October 24, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — A civil rights group said Thursday it was seeking a meeting with the CEO of Barneys…
October 23, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own…