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This year, Hill said she is going to celebrate Juneteenth for all the years that the celebration went unacknowledged.
Jay grew up aware of what Juneteenth was and the meaning of it; however, she doesn’t plan to celebrate it…
In a recent interview with theGrio’s Cortney Wills, “Pose“ star Dyllón Burnside defined what freedom means to him.Â
Famed gospel singer Yolanda Adams spoke with theGrio’s Cortney M. Wills to discuss what freedom means to her.Â
For actress Kiki Layne, freedom in 2022 means more control over how she is represented and the things she gets…
The 4th of July is a day to celebrate our nation’s accomplishments, but it also needs to be a day
theGRIO REPORT - Descendants of former slave Solomon Northup released a video, in collaboration with Fox Searchlight, to commemorate the…
PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — During his more than 30 years behind bars, Stanley Wrice insisted he was innocent, that Chicago…
MSNBC -- Martin Luther King Jr. never got to see himself canonized as a saint. When he was struck by…
theGRIO REPORT - Marissa Alexander is free from jail in time to spend Thanksgiving with family she has not seen…
theGRIO REPORT - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s youngest daughter, Bernice talked to Nightly News about the 50th anniversary of her…
EASTON, Md. (AP) — Archaeology students have been sifting through a little patch of ground on Maryland's Eastern Shore this…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A U.S. woman who became the country's youngest death row inmate at age 16, sparking protests, after…
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire has posthumously emancipated 14 slaves who fought in the Revolutionary War and asked state…
theGRIO REPORT - In its fifth issue, upstart magazine Candy has embodied first lady Michelle Obama on its cover, modeled…
theGRIO REPORT - Ronald Bozeman was in good spirits according to the New York Post after being released from prison…
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada judge set the stage Friday for former football star O.J. Simpson to testify for…
theGRIO REPORT - Comparing herself being a martyr like Jesus may ruffle some feathers but this style of rap is…
Lobbyists from major soda companies have been stopping New Yorkers on the street to sign "say no to #sodaban" petitions...
theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave…