Slavery

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October 21, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - An early portrait of a freed slave has been sold to the Philadelphia Museum of Art...
October 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
October 18, 2011
OPINION - Oh, the things that some people will do for money. Or, to put it another way, the terrible…
October 13, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - A Nigerian woman convicted of enslaving two young women from her country to work as servants and…
October 11, 2011
It's a heartbreaking, but often understated, reality that America's criminal justice system imprisons black folks at astonishingly high rates.
October 7, 2011
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Nearly 3,000 people whose ancestors were enslaved by Cherokee Indians in the 1800s are fighting to…
October 3, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A federal judge on Friday dismissed one of two lawsuits over whether black slaves once owned…
September 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT- An inmate in a prison near Montgomery, Ala., has filed a lawsuit in a federal court claiming that…
September 19, 2011
VIDEO - Letters, bonds, wills and court letters are held at the Virginia Historical Society. The documents are not open…
September 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For decades, efforts to honor Tubman on a national level have stalled for one reason or another...
September 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - During a trip to the post office, Davis found numerous stamps of historic African-American figures, yet York…
September 15, 2011
The Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a letter to the Cherokee Nation on Monday demanding that the tribe reinstate the…
September 13, 2011
Kelis was at a UK airport with her son when a complete stranger called her a 'slave' and 'disgusting Nigerian'...
September 13, 2011
TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) - The federal government said that unless the descendants, known as freedmen, were allowed to vote, the…
September 6, 2011
WASHINGTON - Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is calling out Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) for his full-throated heralding of the…
September 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The ultimate goal is to 'become the most powerful slave trader' by buying, disciplining and exploiting slaves...
August 30, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Museum officials say "Jefferson and Slavery at Monticello: Paradox of Liberty" will tackle the sensitive subject of…
August 29, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In 1863, the Freedmen were made citizens by an act of the Cherokee National Council, which awarded…
August 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Vogue Italia has sparked a debate over a racially charged editorial section to their website which featured…
August 1, 2011
OPINION - Scott and the other GOP governors pining for the Confederate past, has nothing to do honoring and preserving…