theGrio Reflects: The 14th Amendment is adopted

By theGrio

11:06 AM on 07/28/2009

On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving blacks full citizenship and the right to vote...

theGrio Reflects: Bill Clinton visits Ghana

By theGrio

5:00 PM on 07/10/2009

In anticipation of Barack Obama's arrival to Ghana today, theGrio reflects on former President Bill Clinton's twelve-day tour of Africa in 1998. This trip to Africa was the longest foreign-policy journey of the Clinton presidency--the mission, the White House said, was to nurture a new awareness between the US and...

theGrio Reflects: Ghana freed from colonial rule

By theGrio

8:00 AM on 07/09/2009

On the eve of President Obama's visit to Ghana, theGrio looks back to when the country first celebrated its independence from British rule. On March 6, 1957 citizens of the new state of Ghana gathered for a celebration marking their freedom from colonialism. What was once the gold coast of...

James Young becomes first black mayor of Philadelphia, MS

By theGrio

7:50 AM on 07/04/2009

KYLE HARVEY James Young recently made history in Philadelphia, Mississippi after defeating the incumbent Rayburn Waddell by 46 votes. On July 3rd he became the town's first African American mayor. Philadelphia, Mississippi is notorious for its history of racism. The film Mississippi Burning is based on the murders of the...

New Nixon Tapes: Abortion necessary for interracial pregnancies

By theGrio

11:41 AM on 06/24/2009

(AP Photo/ Charlie Tasanadi, File) CAL WOODWARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Watergate scandal grew into a full-bore crisis, Richard Nixon's aides hatched a plan to save his presidency: Convince lawmakers and the public that the Watergate prosecutor was a zealot holding a "pistol to the head"...

theGrio Reflects: Signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

By theGrio

3:29 PM on 06/22/2009

In light of today's Supreme Court decision to exempt a district in Texas from the Voting Rights Act , theGrio.com reflects on the 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act and its purpose. Signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and witnessed by leaders such as Roy Wilkins and Martin...

Colin Powell announced as Bush's choice for Secretary of State

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2:36 PM on 02/02/2009

Slave descendants reunite on plantation

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2:13 PM on 02/02/2009

Condoleezza Rice chosen to be Secretary of State

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2:02 PM on 02/02/2009