theGrio

Back to the Top

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • Entertainment
    • Music
    • The Dish
  • Health
    • Ask Dr. Ty
    • Black Men’s Health
    • Black Women and Breast Cancer
    • Back to School Health
  • Living
    • Travel and Leisure
    • Living Forward
    • Books
  • Politics
    • Perry on Politics
  • Sports
  • News
    • Good News
  • Opinion

Prodigy

Malik Kofi playing the cello: photo courtesy Mario Page

Child prodigy set to take classical music by storm

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - Malik Kofi is extraordinarily talented; a child prodigy, musical genius, awe-inspiring orator, with intellectual gifts well beyond his years...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
Beanie Sigel (Getty Images)

The top 5 rap lyrics of the week

Shawn Setaro, Rap Genius
RAP GENIUS - This week, the biggest news in hip-hop was not about a person, but about a building
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
Justus-Williams16X9.jpg

Meet the ‘LeBron James of chess’

Todd Johnson
theGRIO'S 100 - In just four years, Bronx native Justus Williams went from chess novice to being awarded the level of chess master by the United States Chess Federation at age 12, becoming the youngest African American chess master in history...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
common-author-one-day-it-all-makes-sense.jpg

Do rappers turned authors have the write stuff?

Demetria Irwin
REVIEW - Three rappers decided to write chapters instead of verses this year. But are their paragraphs as engaging as their hot sixteens?...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
  • Learn about our User Panel

    Read More
  • See What Your Friends Are Reading

  • More from theGrio

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Politics
  • Living
  • Video
  • Inspire
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • News
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with TheGrio
  • About
©2013 NBCUniversal
Powered by WordPress.com VIP