Will your children be starving this summer?
theGRIO REPORT - Lack of access to healthy meals during summer months is, ironically, causing two separate health issues among minority children: hunger and obesity...
Struggling single father of 4 sons has 'everything'
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - Several years ago, Roosevelt Johnson was trying to make it in comedy when he learned that the mother of his children was in legal trouble and was about to lose custody of their four sons...
Obama gives fifth grader best absence note ever
A Minnesota fifth grader will head back to school on Monday with what could be the best absence excuse possible: a note from the president of the United States.
Gay student fires stun gun to ward off bullies
theGRIO REPORT - On April 16, the teen was between classes when six students suddenly surrounded him, he claims, taunting him and threatening to beat him up. Young retrieved the stun gun...
'Street squash' lifts grades, spirits in Harlem
VIDEO - Students in Harlem learn how to play squash and improve their grades through the Street Squash after school program. NBC's Janelle Richards reports...
6-year-old handcuffing sparks school debate
(AP) - In Milledgeville, Ga., a city of 18,000 some 90 miles from Atlanta, Salecia Johnson was accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing books and toys in an outburst Friday at Creekside Elementary....
Detroit students suspended for walking out of class
Nearly 50 students were suspended Thursday from the Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit after staging a protest, according to the Huffington Post...
Co-workers accuse black superintendent of racism
Nine employees of the Tukwila School District have filed complaints of racial discrimination against their superintendent, Ethelda Burke...
4th graders dress up as influential black Americans
Cleveland Height Patch - As part of Black History Month, students chose one famous African-American writer, musician, athlete or activist and researched them...
Black student harassed for slavery analogy
VIDEO - In her essay, which was written for a contest, Williams reflected on what Douglass heard his slave master, Mr. Auld, telling his wife after catching her teaching Douglass how to read...
