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November 20, 2025
Mitchelville Freedom Park honors a groundbreaking Black town where freedmen built and educated themselves long before Reconstruction.
January 2, 2023
President Joe Biden this week commemorated the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
October 24, 2022
Daniel Smith, the son of a man born enslaved during the Civil War and the last survivor of five siblings,…
August 19, 2022
MSNBC host Tiffany Cross filled in as a guest host on “The ReidOut,” on Thursday and claimed the United States…
August 13, 2022
The fort, built by runaway slaves and freed Black people for the Union, has recently become a flashpoint in Nashville’s…
August 12, 2022
The street in west St. Louis County is situated at the site of two plantations where more than 100 slaves…
statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee theGrio.com
April 27, 2022
On a day that many state and local government offices were closed for Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi, protesters on
April 3, 2022
There were high hopes for peace and stability when oil-rich South Sudan gained its long-fought independence from Sudan in 2011.
soldier thegrio.com
November 8, 2021
Black veterans of the Civil War have a new memorial in their honor in Virginia and it was made possible…
October 26, 2021
Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and now…
Robert E. Lee statue thegrio.com
October 17, 2021
"We can’t pinpoint exactly the cause and effect. But the association is clearly there,” said a research team member at…
September 12, 2021
The all-Black U.S. Army cavalry known as the Buffalo Soldiers were permanently memorialized on West Point grounds with a bronze…
President Joe Biden
February 24, 2021
In efforts to correct the wrong of slavery, support for H.R. 40 is mounting as a markup and House vote…
February 22, 2021
A member of the Proud Boys has been ringing Rep. Bennie Thompson’s phone since he filed a lawsuit against the…
January 3, 2021
As Ethiopia's political conflict continues, communities in America differ on the cause of the problems in their home country.
December 6, 2020
Fighting in the African nation has led to the displacement of almost 1 million people and strain on local humanitarian…
November 21, 2020
As Ethiopia’s government wages war in its Tigray region, the fighting that could destabilize the Horn of Africa is hidden…
November 15, 2020
The brewing civil war in Ethiopia threatens to destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa and send scores of thousands of…
November 7, 2020
Ethiopia is replacing leadership in the country’s defiant Tigray region, where clashes sparked fears that country could slide into civil…
Joe Biden thegrio.com
October 6, 2020
Joe Biden gave a speech in Gettysburg and decried the false choice between affirming the lives of Black people and…