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theGRIO VIDEO - The 2014 Tony Award nominations have been announced. Oscar winner Denzel Washington was snubbed, while Audra McDonald…
NBC News - NBC News - A handkerchief, a driver’s license and handwritten letters – they are a small portion…
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) - The Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Center are joining forces to build…
theGRIO REPORT - Here are 10 more things to know about the institution that brought millions of people into the…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The painful story of a free black man lured from his home in New York in…
theGRIO REPORT - On Sunday, Kerry Washington could make history as the first African-American actress ever to receive an Emmy…
OPINION - As the release date for the highly anticipated film, '12 Years a Slave', based on Solomon Northup’s bestselling…
theGRIO REPORT - There have never been three African American leading males contenting for the best actor Academy Award, but…
OPINION - During a speech at Howard University, Rand Paul made his case for blacks supporting the Republican Party. Unfortunately,…
OPINION - The day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death, students in the West African country of Ghana were marching...
ESSAY - As Women's History Month progresses on theGrio, we invite you to participate as we fortify ourselves with the…
OPINION - Every February 1st, it happens like clockwork. Folks complain. On Twitter and Facebook, in idle chatter before meetings…
MADAME NOIRE - Part of the Black History Month celebration is to take a look back at all of the…
theGRIO's 100 - Dylan C. Penningroth is a history professor at Northwestern University, who specializes in African-American socio-legal history...
Sergeant Horatio J. Homer broke barriers by becoming the first African-American police officer in Boston's history in 1878, but over…
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Postal service has released a limited-edition stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing…
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band…