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February 10, 2016
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Gov. Jack Markell will sign a resolution apologizing for Delaware's role in slavery and wrongs committed…
February 9, 2016
A Texas couple has been accused of holding their Nigerian nanny against her will for over two years. Chudy Nsobundu,
January 18, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it…
January 16, 2016
This week, one author learned that when it comes to slavery, taking too much artistic liscense is bound to ruffle…
December 28, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The first few times American landscape architect Sara Zewde visited Rio de Janeiro's Valongo Wharf…
December 15, 2015
Wednesday, WGN America released trailer's for their new mini-series Underground.
December 7, 2015
LONDON (AP) — A British judge has sentenced a husband and wife who kept a man as a slave for
December 6, 2015
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — Ivy League universities are moving away from the title of "master" for leaders of residential…
November 16, 2015
Georgetown University has decided to rename two buildings named after slaveowners, following protest from students calling for increased awareness on…
October 26, 2015
Can we all just stop comparing things - anything - to slavery? Ben Carson, the apparent frontrunner in the Republican…
October 21, 2015
The Pioneer Bar in Sitka, Alaska, has commemorated the sale of Alaska from Russia to the United States every year…
October 12, 2015
With Columbus Day once again upon us, America must ask the question, what are we actually celebrating here?
October 5, 2015
A Houston mother was surprised when she looked through her 9th grade son's textbook and found that the "World Geography"…
September 23, 2015
Commissioner Sandra Little Brown thinks it's time a slave mural placed in a Birmingham courthouse eighty years ago comes down.
August 31, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A statue of the president of the secessionist pro-slavery southern states was removed from its pedestal…
July 17, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Russell Simmons and animal rights' activists have been trying to get New York City Mayor Bill de…
July 7, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - For five million students in Texas, racial segregation and slavery will be secondary issues in history classes,…
June 25, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - PBS has announced the postponement of the forthcoming season of Finding Your Roots, determining that an episode…
June 24, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - New York Times columnist Timothy Egan appeared on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Tuesday to defend a…
June 24, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A new website has announced that 1.5 million handwritten records of newly freed slaves will be digitized…