Gabby Douglas to launch gymnastics tour
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gabby Douglas has barely had time to enjoy her Olympic all-around gymnastics success and now it's time to get back to work...
Blacks with graduate degrees live longer
theGRIO REPORT - For black students, adding degrees to your resume can also add years to your life...
Forbes: World's most powerful black women
SLIDESHOW - Eleven amazing African and black American women made the cut, including Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé...
Gold medalist returns to Flint, Michigan a hero
theGRIO REPORT - For the last 10 days, whenever Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields enters a room, she’s greeted like a conquering hero all the while insisting on being treated just like everyone else...
Identical twin sisters to head to top medical school together
Had just one of the ladies gotten into the University of Massachusetts it would have been an amazing feat, but both ladies beat the odds and won a spot in the prestigious program.
Condoleezza Rice one of 2 first female members of Augusta National
NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time in its 80-year history, Augusta National Golf Club has female members...
93-year-old plaintiff in voter case finally gets ID
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law has received the state-issued photo ID card necessary to vote..
Oldest living Tuskegee Airman is finally honored
theGRIO REPORT - America’s oldest Tuskegee airman has finally been honored seven decades after he fought in World War II...
Nick Cannon gives 20,000 backpacks to South Florida kids
MIAMI - 'America's Got Talent' host Nick Cannon teamed up with Office Depot to to donate 20,000 backpacks to children in South Florida Thursday...
Ugandans celebrate first medal in 40 years
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Uganda's only medal winner at the London Olympics cried tears of joy as he was welcomed home by hundreds of people delighted by the African country's first gold since the 1972 games in Munich...
