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April 26, 2022
Harvard University will spend $100 million to research and make amends for the school's ties with slavery. 
June 12, 2021
Latta Historic Plantation canceled its Juneteenth program “Kingdom Coming” after complaints emerged about a promotion for the event.
March 3, 2021
Students at Purvis Middle School were asked to 'pretend like you are a slave' and 'write a letter to your…
Baltimore Public Schools thegrio.com
February 4, 2021
Wisconsin teachers put on leave for an assignment asking how to 'punish' slaves. it happened on the first day of…
teacher thegrio.com
December 9, 2020
A Michigan teacher under fire for asking students how they'd "punish" a slave and outraged the mother of a seventh-grader.
June 26, 2020
Actor Robert Hartwell has purchased a historic home built by slaves in 1820 that he intends to 'fill with love'…
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December 5, 2018
The Anse Caffard Slave Memorial in Martinique is a must-see travel destination to honor your roots.
April 23, 2017
Back in 1838, Georgetown University sold 272 slaves in order to pay off school debts. Now, all these years later,
December 19, 2016
The United States third-largest life insurance company New York Life opened in the spring of 1845 and had a board…
April 7, 2016
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University’s president has dedicated a plaque that honors slaves who worked on campus centuries ago. The
October 23, 2015
A free black man convicted of helping slaves escape to freedom in the 19th century is to be posthumously pardoned…
May 10, 2015
theGrio REPORT - The problems began when East Chapel Hill High School students made a school trip to the Gettysburg…
May 5, 2014
OPINION - The travesty in Leslie Jones’s ill-received Saturday Night Live skit was not that she dared to joke about…
February 17, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Close to 2,000 unmarked graves have been uncovered on the University of Mississippi campus, school officials say...
December 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Talk show host Arsenio Hall doesn't appreciate Kanye West comparing himself to him -- and that's not…
October 2, 2013
DARIEN, Ga. (AP) — Residents of one of the few remaining Gullah-Geechee communities on the Southeast coast opened new appeals…
July 11, 2013
NBC Los Angeles - A Saudi princess was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of keeping slaves after police say a forced…
June 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Celebrity chef Paula Deen allegedly admitted to using the n-word and wanting black waiters to play the…
June 7, 2013
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire has posthumously emancipated 14 slaves who fought in the Revolutionary War and asked state…
January 23, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A stovepipe hat worn by Abraham Lincoln is going on display at the Springfield library and…