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SLIDESHOW - On the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, theGrio is looking back at some of…
OPINION - The new book "Colonization After Emancipation' portrays the former president's sincerity about racial equality in a new an…
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A new book by a researcher at George Mason University makes the case that Lincoln was…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - They started at a fountain where slaves were once sold, past the church that Martin Luther…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A fight is brewing in Mississippi over a proposal to issue specialty license plates honoring Confederate…
VIDEO - Lexington, Virginia is causing a storm of controversy over the way it is celebrating Lee-Jackson Day...
CHICAGO (AP) - Deng arrived at the office-turned-polling station on Chicago's North Side to a hero's welcome, drawing cheers from…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Prominent figures from the era -- including William Seward, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Fredrick Douglass and…
SLIDESHOW - The memory of the Civil War collided with modern-day civil rights Monday as protesters targeted a 'Secession Ball'...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Monday's ball is like having a dance to celebrate the attack on Pearl Harbor, said Lonnie…
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) - In Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a…
OPINION - What is troubling about this glorification of secession, and the efforts to preserve it, is its whitewashing of…
theGRIO REPORT - There's been a push among historians, descendants and others to ensure their contributions aren't forgotten...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Almost 100 years after his death, a black Union Civil War vet from South Carolina finally…
NEW YORK (AP) - Emmy winner Andre Braugher will star in the New York premier of Matthew Lopez's Civil War-era…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A black South Carolina lawmaker hopes the NAACP will end its tourism boycott of the state…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The new version of "Our Virginia: Past and Present" will correct a sentence that inaccurately claims…


The Myth of the Black Confederate has found a home primarily in Lost Cause circles, particularly Southern heritage groups like…