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NBC News - Washington, D.C.'s Mayor Vincent Gray on Thursday vetoed the so-called "living wage bill" that would have required…
NBC Washington - The family of a fallen D.C. firefighter came home from his funeral to find something that deepened…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bus carrying some members of Martin Luther King Jr.'s family was involved in a minor traffic…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Young people are eager to influence this year's March on Washington, says Jessica Brown, national coordinator for…
ANALYSIS - We forget that civil rights was a contested process, and that assumptions about black violence made the public…
theGRIO REPORT - Chicagoans reflect on the historic event 50 years ago and how it feels to have a “hometown…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Next week, the first black U.S. president, a living symbol of the racial progress civil rights leader…
theGRIO SURVEY - Now 50 years later, theGrio wants to know your impressions of this legacy and in your mind,…
New book lionizes America’s first black public high school, source of many African-American greats
REVIEW - Founded in 1870, Dunbar High has produced many of the nation’s pioneering black "firsts," African-Americans who broke through…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese sculptor has removed a disputed inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial statue that…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans and Democrats are meeting in the grand Statuary Hall of the Capitol to commemorate the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Lincoln Memorial has been temporarily closed after someone splattered a splash of green paint on the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service says it will begin work this week to remove a disputed inscription from…
NBC WASHINGTON - Sources tell News4 the daughter of former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty was taken into custody by officials…
NBC Washington - A D.C. police officer accused of making a threat against First Lady Michelle Obama last year has…