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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Gov. Jack Markell will sign a resolution apologizing for Delaware's role in slavery and wrongs committed…
A black medical student claims the manager at a New York City bar wouldn't allow him to use the bathroom…
An art student at University at Buffalo admitted to hanging "whites only" and "blacks only" signs outside the restrooms at…
On June 17, 1822, Denmark Vesey and five others were going to revolt to kill slaveholders and free the people
OPINION - Wednesday night's massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston conjures up painful memories of the 1963 bombing…
College or prison: which is more important? In 16 states in the land of the free, the answer is prison.
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on the Internet, you’ve seen it – someone, somewhere opining about how
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas County leaders have passed a resolution supporting reparations to African-Americans for years of slavery — without…
theGRIO REPORT - A child psychiatrist said it was her professional opinion that George Stinney Jr.'s alleged confession was "coerced,…
VIDEO - The events leading to the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., began in the tiny mill town of…
theGRIO REPORT - The history of blackface minstrelsy isn’t talked about regularly today, but its cultural residue is all around…
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is calling on Alicia Keys to 'boycott apartheid' by…
VIDEO - On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights hero Medgar Evers, his widow Myrlie Evers-Williams says…
WASHINGTON (AP) - After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word 'Negro' to…
theGRIO REPORT - Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II is a documentary film, currently in production, about…
theGRIO REPORT - Alabama voters turned down an amendment to the state's constitution in Tuesday's elections that would have removed…
VIDEO - Joanna Jenkins has never voted before and doesn't have an official state ID, but she didn't let that…
theGRIO REPORT - Addressing the 103rd NAACP Convention in Houston, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder likened new voter ID laws…