Congressional Gold Medal

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Kamala Harris, Shirley Chisholm, theGrio.com
December 10, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris signed a bill bestowing the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm with a Congressional Gold Medal.
December 22, 2022
The House has unanimously passed a bill posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till.
March 1, 2022
The House voted Monday to award the World War II 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion with the Congressional Gold Medal.
January 20, 2022
O’Ree’s jersey, No. 22, was retired Tuesday at Boston's TD Garden — the 64-year anniversary of his first game as…
October 25, 2021
Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to pop superstar Prince.
Rosa Parks, theGrio.com
September 17, 2021
Ohio's Joyce Beatty and two of her colleagues in Congress want to make Dec. 1, the day Parks' arrest sparked…
theGRIO.com
September 3, 2021
The soldiers nicknamed The Harlem Hellfighters will finally receive national recognition after their contributions have gone ignored.
Eugene Goodman thegrio.com
February 12, 2021
The Capitol police officer who led insurrectionists away from the Senate floor last month is set to receive the Congressional…
Willie O'Ree
March 1, 2019
At 83, the barrier breaker in the NHL could receive the Congressional Gold Medal for ending the color line in…
September 13, 2013
Condoleezza Rice grew up in black and white Birmingham. Her city was the capital of an old, segregated South fighting to
May 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The children were murdered when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded at the 16th Street Baptist…
April 26, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four young victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing that marked one of the darkest moments of…