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Net Neutrality is equal and fair access to the internet, so why have civil rights groups like the National Urban…
Edith Jones, the first Black medical student in the South, died this week. She worked in civil rights with Dr.…
The legendary queen of New Orleans Creole cuisine, Leah Chase has died. She refused to abide by segregation law and…
Federal Judge Damon Keith died the morning of April 28 at the age of 96.
In an exclusive interview with theGrio, Fannie Lou Hamer's daughter celebrates her mother on the 42nd anniversary of the civil…
A civil rights lawyer and CNN analyst made quite a gaffe on Tuesday night.
On December 1st sixty-three years ago, Rosa Parks refused white bus driver James Blake’s order to give up her seat…
The murder of Emmett Till is just as relevant today as it was in 1955 when his death sparked an…
Slain civil rights era voter registration activist Elbert Williams, who was Black, is known as “the first martyr of the…
[griojw id=”TaqhkfU4″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] Georgia Rep. John Lewis, was released from the hospital on Sunday after a health scare and the civil
[griojw id=”y90Hi9Bn” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] A little part of civil rights history will live on in the homes of those who
Elbert "Big Man" Howard, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, has died at age 80.
An Alabama state superintendent righted a wrong that haunted civil rights protestors for nearly 60 years when he cleared the…
It's urgent that we (especially folks like Kanye) look back and educate ourselves on what tactics were used to rob…
Museums, colleges and activists have organized three days of marches, speeches and conferences to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. and…
On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its patriarch when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on a…
Harvard University announced on Wednesday that its commencement speaker will be none other than venerable Civil Rights icon John Lewis.
Before Thurgood Marshall became the first black Supreme Court justice, he was a fearless lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense…
Black people celebrate Juneteenth to mark our freedom from slavery, but that doesn’t mean slavery is over. And if we
Clarence Thomas did a shocking thing when he voted with the majority of his Supreme Court colleagues to strike down…