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August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Despite being routinely condemned for racially insensitive comments, radio host Rush Limbaugh compared himself favorably to Martin…
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - We asked theGrio.com users that question and more in an exclusive survey, and their poignant and candid…
August 27, 2013
OPINION - In the speech, 'we' was the word repeated most: 30 times. We, meaning 'all of us'...
August 27, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Much like the march 50 years ago, jobs were very much on peoples’ minds and the concern…
August 27, 2013
VIDEO - A lot had changed for King since 1963. John F. Kennedy was gone. He had been impressed by…
August 26, 2013
ANALYSIS - 1963 was a year of bold action and heartbreaking consequences that literally rocked the nation...
August 25, 2013
VIDEO - Watch the Aug. 25, 1963 edition of Meet the Press, featuring interviews with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
August 25, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - TheGrio.com asked several young African-American men to reflect on the day's events and share how the anniversary…
August 25, 2013
ANALYSIS - We forget that civil rights was a contested process, and that assumptions about black violence made the public…
August 24, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — It has been a half-century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed a dream that…
August 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National
August 23, 2013
NBC News - NBC News is asking all Americans to share their dreams as the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary…
August 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Bernice King’s diary is jam-packed. The head of the King Center in Atlanta has been inundated with…
August 23, 2013
ANALYSIS - President Obama won't be giving his version of the "I Have a Dream" speech next Wednesday at the…
August 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week, the first black U.S. president, a living symbol of the racial progress civil rights leader…
August 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - A heightened sense of progress immediately after the 2008 election of Barack Obama as the first black…
August 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the…
August 21, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - The youngest King offspring took a few moments to share her thoughts on her work preserving Dr.…
August 20, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. never met but they fought for the same cause at the…
August 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In an effort to be on the right side of history, the naysayers and obstacles are often…