Reconstruction

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Gilded Age Denee Benton theGrio.com
March 22, 2022
The Gilded Age's Peggy Scott is a rare depiction of elite Black women in the 19th century. One prototype was…
Sen. Raphael Warnock, theGrio.com
October 17, 2021
Across the country, Black candidates for the U.S. Senate have had unprecedented success during the latest campaign fundraising period.
September 12, 2021
The all-Black U.S. Army cavalry known as the Buffalo Soldiers were permanently memorialized on West Point grounds with a bronze…
Jeruel Academy theGrio.com
June 19, 2020
See how one family's history connects Juneteenth, Reconstruction, and #BlackLivesMatter. See how an ex-slave sued his former master.
Henry Louis Gates Jr thegrio.com
February 5, 2019
Historian Henry Louis Gates can trace the roots of his upcoming PBS documentary about the Reconstruction to his days in…
November 5, 2014
Utah’s Mia Love and South Carolina’s Tim Scott certainly had a lot to celebrate last night as the results came
June 13, 2012
MOGADISU, Somalia (AP) - Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous…
February 24, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The government announced Gary Conille's resignation in a brief statement and said Martelly would address the…
January 11, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The billions of dollars in aid that flowed into Haiti after its shattering earthquake were meant…
May 25, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Daniel-Gerard Rouzier said the 27-member commission is "dysfunctional" and he would replace it with a new…
March 9, 2011
OPINION - An interesting study was released suggesting that white opposition to heath care may be racially motivated...
January 12, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - A recent study found that less than 40 percent of the $1.4 billion Americans donated has been…
November 3, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Two years after electing the first African-American president, African-American candidates are still making history all across the…
November 2, 2010
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina voters on Tuesday elected the first black Republican to Congress from the Deep…
November 2, 2010
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Jackson later acknowledged such a plan would require accountability, especially in Nigeria, the continent's most populous…
July 22, 2010
PARIS (AP) - The IMF says it has canceled Haiti's $268 million debt and will lend the earthquake-devastated country another…
June 22, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti has made little progress in rebuilding in the five months since its earthquake, because of…
April 22, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The official manual of the South Carolina Legislature no longer references "Negro" or "scalawag" in historical…
March 25, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama is asking Congress for $2.8 billion in emergency funding for the reconstruction effort in Haiti...