HBCUs are still vital to American education
OPINION - HBCUs are not just relevant, they are a necessary tool of educational obtainment for some black, and even white, students...
Morris Brown president speaks out on battle for HBCUs
VIDEO - For more than a century, historically black colleges and universities -- HBCUs -- have focused on educating the nation's African-Americans, who were once barred from attending school with whites...
Unlikely transcribers at Confederate museum
When Ariel Brown was offered a chance to transcribe the correspondence of the first family of the Confederacy, the history major with a keen interest in the South seized the opportunity.
Then the student from historically black North Carolina Central University in Durham let her colleagues know she would be doing her research at The Museum of the Confederacy.
theGrio Reflects: What it took to integrate Central High School
In 1957, the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a battleground in the fight for school desegregation.
Crowds greeted nine blac…
Lost class reunites 50 years after integration battle
In Arkansas Sataurday, it was a memorable reunion for a senior class that didnt exist. Classmates from the Horace Mann high school class of 1959 gathered to celebrate the their 50th reunion. Their class motto was appropriately called "the class that should have been"...
theGrio Reflects: The Civil Rights Act signed 45 years ago
July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the company of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists.
Today Presi…
theGrio Reflects: The origins of "40 acres and a mule"
On the eve of Juneteenth, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery. The gesture sparked lots of debate about reparations.
TheGrio refl…
theGrio reflects: June 11, 1963 University of Alabama integration standoff (video)
theGrio reflects on the battle for desegregation on June 11, 1963 with icue.com. Forty six years ago, this week, Governor Wallace attempted to stop two Afr…
Historically black schools begin to recruit White and Latino students
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William Gray discusses the United Negro College Fund
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