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NEW YORK (AP) - Common plays mixed-raced former slave Elam Ferguson, who works on the rail system...
Quentin Tarantino has been slowly, deliberately and (for fans) painstakingly casting his upcoming freed slave turned fierce bounty hunter flick,…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An early portrait of a freed slave has been sold to the Philadelphia Museum of Art...
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
OPINION - Oh, the things that some people will do for money. Or, to put it another way, the terrible…
ATLANTA (AP) - A Nigerian woman convicted of enslaving two young women from her country to work as servants and…
It's a heartbreaking, but often understated, reality that America's criminal justice system imprisons black folks at astonishingly high rates.
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Nearly 3,000 people whose ancestors were enslaved by Cherokee Indians in the 1800s are fighting to…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal judge on Friday dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned…
theGRIO REPORT- An inmate in a prison near Montgomery, Ala., has filed a lawsuit in a federal court claiming that…
VIDEO - Letters, bonds, wills and court letters are held at the Virginia Historical Society. The documents are not open…
theGRIO REPORT - For decades, efforts to honor Tubman on a national level have stalled for one reason or another...
theGRIO REPORT - During a trip to the post office, Davis found numerous stamps of historic African-American figures, yet York…
The Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a letter to the Cherokee Nation on Monday demanding that the tribe reinstate the…
Kelis was at a UK airport with her son when a complete stranger called her a 'slave' and 'disgusting Nigerian'...
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) - The federal government said that unless the descendants, known as freedmen, were allowed to vote, the…
WASHINGTON - Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is calling out Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) for his full-throated heralding of the…
theGRIO REPORT - The ultimate goal is to 'become the most powerful slave trader' by buying, disciplining and exploiting slaves...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Museum officials say "Jefferson and Slavery at Monticello: Paradox of Liberty" will tackle the sensitive subject of…