Usher hosts 3rd annual World Leadership Conference
theGRIO REPORT - Usher's non-profit organization, New Look Foundation, hosted their third annual World Leadership Conference at Emory University in Atlanta from June 19-23, 2012...
Grio's 100 slideshow: Service and activism
SLIDESHOW - Their passion for giving back and helping their communities are reasons these 10 African-Americans made this year's Grio's 100 list...
Obama unveils plan to lift wages of home health care workers
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says it's inexcusable that home health care workers who care for the elderly and disabled can be paid less than minimum wage, and he's going to change it...
Hotels open doors for black entrepreneurs
theGRIO REPORT - In 2001 there was only one branded hotel owned by an African-American. Today there are more than 500 African-American owned hotels...
Hardships remain for the real-life 'Help' in America
theGRIO REPORT - When other African-Americans see them pushing strollers in the street, they avert their eyes or ask if they couldn't find some other work....
Fast growth in service sector hints at more hiring
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. service sector, which employs nearly 90 percent of America's work force, grew in January at the fastest pace in five years...
TheGrio's 100: Tracie Washington, calling out racism and injustice in NOLA
TheGrio's 100 - When the Louisiana Housing Authority planned to raze a public housing project in 2006, Tracie Washington sued to block them in their tracks....
TheGrio's 100: Christina Oliver, translating as part of a rare team in Afghanistan
TheGrio's 100 - Before 25-year-old Cpl. Oliver and 39 other female Marines were deployed to interview rural Afghan women last year, the U.S. military had no point of access to the female half of the population...
TheGrio's 100: Dale Long, pledging to change history by serving as Big Brother
TheGrio's 100 - Dale Long has a big family. A 34-year volunteer for Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Dallas native has mentored six Little Brothers from adolescence to adulthood...
TheGrio's 100: Decker Ngongang, mobilizing Millennials to change America
TheGrio's 100 - In the age of the Internet, Millennials have an increased access to political power -- they just need a little help speaking out on their issues...
