Slavery

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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…
June 22, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States has not overcome its history of racism and is using…
June 2, 2015
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Against a backdrop of exclusive, sea-view apartments in Cape Town, South African and American…
May 22, 2015
Can you think of a better way for a black man to spend Memorial Day than to burn a Confederate
April 28, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Viola Davis will reportedly be playing Harriet Tubman in an upcoming HBO biopic...
April 24, 2015
OPINION - Where have all the brothers gone? The numbers are staggering. According to a report in The New York…
April 22, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — PBS is conducting an internal review following revelations that producers of “Finding Your Roots” may have
April 16, 2015
Is the policing of black men the new sport for white officers and wannabe cops? This is a question worth
March 30, 2015
College or prison: which is more important? In 16 states in the land of the free, the answer is prison.
March 26, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Chiddi Stober was just doing his job, working part-time as an Uber driver, when a passenger refused…
March 19, 2015
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on the Internet, you’ve seen it – someone, somewhere opining about how
March 19, 2015
The U.S. economy is rebounding, the stock market is thriving, and unemployment is down to levels not seen since the
March 1, 2015
Opinion - For forty years the United States has hidden the consequence of its dark racial history at the center…
February 20, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A group called Virginia Flaggers is looking to find land on which they can fly Confederate flags…
February 11, 2015
A North Carolina resident asked Steve Harvey during a segment of the Steve Harvey Show called “Ask Steve” how to respond to
February 1, 2015
theGrio REPORT - January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
November 1, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homes of slaves who served President James Madison at his Montpelier estate in Virginia will be rebuilt
October 29, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A routine social studies class in a Chicago suburb turned ugly for some middle school students this…