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January 17, 2021
MLK/FBI, directed by Sam Pollard, explores the FBI's mission to destroy the life of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther…
July 2, 2020
OPINION: As institutions begin to remove the names of white supremacists from its walls, former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover…
Dr. King FBI
January 15, 2018
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on November 15, 2014.  As we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
November 3, 2016
FBI Director James Comey has inserted himself into the 2016 presidential election and made himself part of the controversy.
October 14, 2016
October 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — that black revolutionary and
December 4, 2015
Fred Hampton. Say his name. On this anniversary of the slaying of the Black Panther leader in Chicago — when…
March 31, 2015
Last Tuesday, two more African-American men were arrested on federal terrorism charges for trying to join ISIS.  The FBI arrested
December 18, 2014
What’s next for Assata Shakur? With Havana’s humanitarian release of American Alan Gross — A USAID worker who had been imprisoned in
June 13, 2013
ANALYSIS - The black community has decades of experience being monitored, so this type of surveillance is nothing new...
November 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Long before the recent FBI probe of Gen. David Petraeus, leading to his resignation as CIA director,…
November 23, 2011
In some quarters this racial rumor has been whispered about as widely as Hoover's sexuality. Eastwood's avoidance of the issue…
September 13, 2011
NY DAILY NEWS - Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy described King as "phony" and "tricky" in a 1964 interview just…
June 19, 2010
OPINION - Hip-hop is more than a "Hot 16," "fresh new gear" or "swagger devoid of substance." At the end…