Sherrilyn Ifill named head of NAACP Legal Defense Fund
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights activist and law professor Sherrilyn Ifill has been named the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund...
Black women making their mark in space and science
SLIDESHOW - It is important to bring attention to some of the African-American females that have, and are still, paving the road for future scientists, astronauts or any STEM degree holders...
19th century middle class black household excavated
theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave and one of the first African-Americans to work as a cook at the Annapolis Naval Academy...
Black scientists shunned: Do degrees matter?
theGRIO REPORT - Regardless of achievement or education, black scientists are more likely to be rejected for medical research funding, according to a study out today...
Martin Luther King Blvd is often a dividing line
theGRIO VIDEO - There are over 900 Martin Luther King Boulevards across the country. In Baltimore this street has been the dividing line...
Memorial to honor civil rights pioneer Ron Walters
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - In July 1958, Walters led the Wichita NAACP youth chapter in a sit-in at a Wichita Dockum Drug Store...
Ron Walters, expert on race, politics, dies at 72
WASHINGTON (AP) - Walters spent 25 years at Howard before becoming director of the African-American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland...
NFL's Madieu Williams honors mother's memory in Sierra Leone
VIDEO - Williams went back to visit a school he built, where he handed out basic school supplies because most classes often don't have books...
Researchers: Vaccine could cure Type 1 diabetes
VIDEO - If the clinical trial for a vaccine called Diamyd should be successful, diabetes patients may never need an insulin injection again...
