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Todd Blanche, Carla Hayden, theGrio.com
May 12, 2025
The implications of President Trump's installing a close ally as librarian of Congress could be far-reaching.
James McBride, Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, theGrio.com
July 12, 2024
The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction is given to an American author who excels as a prose stylist…
Black Lives Matter Fence
October 3, 2022
More than 1,600 Black Lives Matter artifacts once attached to a fence can now be found in a D.C. Public…
June 13, 2022
More than 2000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been compiled for a collection that is now available online. 
December 15, 2021
Some classic Black films are being added to the National Film Registry, including Richard Pryor's acclaimed 1979 stand-up set.
Floyd Ray Roseberry
August 19, 2021
Police were investigating a report Thursday of a possible explosive device in a pickup truck outside the Library of Congress…
Tulsa Race Massacre
March 28, 2021
The Library of Congress changed its reference of the historical event that killed more than 300 Black people from "riot"…
March 25, 2021
Nas's "Illmatic" and Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814,” will be inducted into the National Recording Registry at The Library of…
March 28, 2020
Music from Dr. Dre, the Village People, Tina Turner have become part of the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
February 25, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has nominated the longtime head of Baltimore's library system as the next Librarian of…
February 1, 2015
theGrio REPORT - January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
January 27, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Music and records from one of the creators of modern jazz drumming, Max Roach, will be preserved…
June 7, 2012
EBONY. - The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer…
December 28, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - The goal of the registry, which began in 1989, isn't to identify the best movies ever made…
June 25, 2010
'It is a song that spoke not just to me, but every mother that has been in that situation, and…