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October 13, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Beyoncé and Jay Z and Blue Ivy have one of the most private tours ever of the…
September 24, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Museum curators have discovered the remnants of a 1913 movie that has never been seen before. The…
May 15, 2014
VIDEO - The National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City will open to the public for the first…
March 25, 2014
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new exhibit at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art shows the vibrant world of Negro League baseball…
March 7, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Just a few years after the invention of 'Basket Ball,' black players in segregated America formed…
February 7, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Talk-show host Wendy Williams is giving part of her diva act to the Smithsonian to be part…
October 24, 2013
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Standing near where tens of thousands of African slaves landed in Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley…
August 1, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History wants the hooded sweatshirt Trayvon Martin was wearing when…
June 26, 2013
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gettysburg's small African-American community proudly tells stories of ancestors who fought in the Civil War, of…
June 11, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington's National Mall that will…
December 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - 'Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries' explores African-Americans' contributions as nurses, surgeons and hospital staff during the Civil War...
November 2, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King…
October 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Kingston, Jamaica has the Bob Marley Museum. Memphis, Tennessee has Elvis Presley’s Graceland. For the first time…
July 25, 2012
A special exhibit in the Los Angeles Grammy Museum will showcase memorabilia from the life of late the Whitney Houston...
July 16, 2012
VIDEO - Google Maps is offering indoor maps and walking tours of 20 American museums, including the de Young Museum…
April 19, 2012
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The objects displayed in Michigan's newest museum range from the ordinary, such as simple ashtrays…
February 29, 2012
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An attorney for the U.S. National Slavery Museum is headed back to bankruptcy court to outline…
February 21, 2012
From Bloomberg Businessweek-- The $500 million branch of the Smithsonian in Washington breaks ground tomorrow for an opening in the…
February 14, 2012
The exhibit includes artifacts excavated at Monticello and objects from the Smithsonian's collection, including a set of slave shackles and…
February 3, 2012
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center could possibly be closing its doors due to financial troubles...