President Abraham Lincoln

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January 2, 2023
President Joe Biden this week commemorated the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
February 3, 2022
Apple TV+ just dropped the trailer for its new four-part documentary series, Lincoln’s Dilemma, and theGrio has an exclusive first…
Latta Plantation Juneteenth
June 11, 2021
A historic plantation in North Carolina is facing backlash for a planned Juneteenth event which promised a perspective from a…
June 9, 2021
In honor of Juneteenth, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Illinois will show a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.
October 13, 2020
The protesters took charge at the statues of President Abraham Lincoln, President Theodore Roosevelt and at the Oregon Historical Society.
June 19, 2013
ESSAY - The unveiling of the Frederick Douglass statue in Emancipation Hall commemorates how far we have come as a…
January 5, 2013
VIDEO - On Saturday, 'Melissa Harris Perry' revisited the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for…
January 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Postal service has released a limited-edition stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing…
December 31, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation…
February 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - On the 203rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth (he was born February 12, 1809), Professor Blair L.M.…