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October 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On this day in 1968, at the Olympics Games in Mexico City, two black U.S. medalists—Tommie Smith…
October 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - T. Willard Fair is being honored for the work he’s done to advance people of color and…
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
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Benjamin Jealous took the helm of the NAACP, his predecessor quit following clashes with the…
September 9, 2013
OPINION - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous recently announced he will step down from his position leading the…
September 4, 2013
DENVER (AP) — A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux…
September 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Although today Dr. King’s iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech often symbolizes the March for many, it…
August 29, 2013
ESSAY - Whether you volunteer, mentor, donate money or do something else to help your brethren, now is the time…
August 29, 2013
OPINION - For a second-term president hoping to cement his legacy, Obama squandered a unique opportunity to demonstrate some leadership…
August 28, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is claiming his place in Martin Luther King's 50-year-old dream, holding himself up as…
August 28, 2013
MSNBC - Bruce Davidson is a Magnum photographer and a revered master of social documentary photography...
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - We asked theGrio.com users that question and more in an exclusive survey, and their poignant and candid…
August 26, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom...
August 26, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - Young shared his future plans for GiveLocally.net, the importance of working towards greater economic equality, and his…
August 25, 2013
Lawmakers, activists, and civil rights leaders fired up a crowd of thousands on Washington, D.C.’s national mall Saturday to commemorate…
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 - 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 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - A heightened sense of progress immediately after the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the first black…
August 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the…