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theGRIO REPORT – A new documentary delves into the mystery surrounding the woman who almost fatally stabbed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ten years before his death…
ROCK CENTER – At 18 months old, PJ Watson was inside the daycare center at the federal building when the Oklahoma City bombing attacks occurred. Watson survived the attack, but faces many severe medical problems today…
theGRIO REPORT – One parent, Letrice Titus, is concerned that the musical director along with school officials did not do enough to increase diversity for the production…
theGRIO REPORT – Photographer Eunique Jones’ photo series, ‘Because of them, we can…’ , has made a splash on the Internet as a unique and creative take on the importance of Black History Month…
theGRIO REPORT – Popular satirical newspaper The Onion, known for its humorous jabs at prominent figures, may have taken it a step too far with a vulgar tweet about 9-year-old Oscar nominee, Quvenzhané Wallis…
theGRIO REPORT – Michelle Obama is ready for a face-off against NBC’s late night host Jimmy Fallon…
theGRIO Q&A – Pauline Copes-Johnson,85, is the great-grandniece, and her daughter Deirdre Stanford, 64, is the great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman has been giving presentations about Harriet Tubman’s life for over ten years…
SLIDESHOW – theGrio decided to track down some of the living descendants of well-known African-American historical figures to find out what it is like being related to some of most the influential people in history…
theGRIO REPORT – The former Destiny Child’s singer will also be starring with her real life sisters in the new reality series, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’…
theGRIO REPORT – Nugent, in a column published today, claims that the Democratic party is the root cause for the poor social and economic conditions for African-Americans..
theGRIO Q&A – Robert Smalls is recognized as one of Civil War heroes who commandeered a confederate ship, the CSS Planter, freeing himself along with his enslaved crew and their families in 1862…
theGRIO Q&A – Walker is credited with being the first female self-made millionaire through her successful beauty and hair product line targeted toward black women throughout the early 1900s…
theGRIO Q&A – Booker T. Washington is known as one of the most influential black educators in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Frederick Douglass was a leader of the abolitionist movement who fought to end slavery in the southern United States, decades before the Civil War….
theGRIO Q&A – W.E.B. Du Bois was a prominent scholar and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…
theGRIO Q&A – Ida B. Wells was one of the most prominent black journalists and newspaper editors at the time and an active member of the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s…
theGRIO REPORT – Bay Area journalist Kevin Weston, 44, says he has no recollection of marrying the love of his life, Lateefah Simon. That was because his wedding ceremony took place inside the intensive care unit at the Kaiser Santa Clara hospital…
theGRIO REPORT – British supermodel Naomi Campbell seems to be following in the footsteps of frenemy and fellow supermodel Tyra Banks with the launch of her new model reality show, ‘The Face’ on Oxygen…
theGRIO REPORT – Two families are accusing Disneyland cast members of racism towards their children, and they are planning to take legal action, their lawyer tells theGrio…
theGRIO REPORT – Former South Carolina GOP Republican executive director, who calls himself ‘The Honey Badger of American Politics’ on his Twitter account, is facing a firestorm after posting derogatory tweets about the late Trayvon Martin…
theGRIO REPORT – The original cast of the groundbreaking TV mini-series Roots will be partaking in a live Q&A for a town-hall event on Sirius XM tonight in light of Black History Month…