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OPINION - The news that First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great-grandmother was a slave and that her great-great-great grandfather was a…
VIDEO - An expert is helping to return one of Connecticut's best-known former slave's family gravesite to its proper place.
Watch President Obama speak of his family's experience touring the slave dungeons of Cape Coast Castle. President Barack Obama said…
On the eve of Juneteenth, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery. The gesture sparked lots of debate
What are people thinking about the Senate's unanimous decision to apologize for slavery? Was it necessary? Is it enough? The…
JULIA MAYES TheGrio.com went behind the scenes at New York City’s 59E59 Theater’s “Pure Confidence,” a play about an African-American
Watch the full introduction of the resolution by Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of…
Juneteenth, widely celebrated throughout the United States, is now a commemorative holiday in 31 states. In 2009 the U.S. Senate passed
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery in the United States. Democratic Senator Tom Harkin introduced
VIDEO - Charlotte, NC - Mary Sadler is an 83-year-old African-American who remembers when blacks had to use the other…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Eighty-six-year-old Johnnie Leach leans on his cane as he sits in warm sunshine on the steps…
VIDEO - Washington - A statue of a former slave who became a women's rights activist is now on display…
When the Civil War was over, Joe Davis who’s brother Jefferson was President of the defeated Confederacy, had to set