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VIDEO – Derrick McCray’s barbecued ribs have been a hit with politicians and football fans in Florida for years. Now McCray will be cooking for a bigger crowd — the Super Bowl…
NEW YORK (AP) – Martin Luther King Jr.’s oldest son says any discussion of his potential interest in becoming a minority owner of the New York Mets is premature…
VIDEO – Atlanta’s Fulton County Deputy N. Dorsey’s 16 year-old daughter has not been seen by family or friends for five days and everyone is deeply concerned…
QED is mounting a production based on the popular James Patterson character that has already been portrayed by Morgan Freeman in two previous studio movies…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South Africa’s president has visited Nelson Mandela at his home in Johannesburg, the latest in a steady stream of well-wishers…
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – As thousands of football fans descend on Texas for Sunday’s Super Bowl, law enforcement agencies are keeping watch for a different kind of out-of-town visitor…
OPINION – By flying off the handle in this way, Moseley Braun has made others begin to question her mental stability…
ATLANTA (AP) – The SCLC was co-founded in 1957 by King. Over the weekend, King’s nephew, Isaac Ferris Jr., was elected vice president…
theGrio.com, wanted to talk about the future. We wanted to predict who would make up the next generation of history makers. So we came up with TheGrio’s 100…
OPINION – Considering the constant stream of half-truths and whole lies it must combat, Black History Month definitely has not outlived its usefulness…
TheGrio’s 100 – Joshua Bennett is no stranger to house shows. But his work found a bigger stage recently at the White House…
OPINION – If enacted, the bill threatens to deny due health care to untold numbers of rape victims, with poor women and minorities disproportionally affected…
TheGrio’s 100 – In 1993, Lisa Price started Carol’s Daughter, a multimillion-dollar beauty business, with $100 and a homemade lotion recipe in her Brooklyn kitchen…
TheGrio’s 100 – Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided it was time for teachers to take charge…
TheGrio’s 100 – If Jill Scott isn’t recording or touring for a Grammy-award winning album, chances are the soulful songstress is lending her voice to Blues Babe Foundation…
TheGrio’s 100 – Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day…
Every February TheGrio looks at the men and women who are making a difference in black communities and across the […]
TheGrio’s 100 – Badass Barbie Nicki Minaj was breaking hearts and Billboard records even before her debut LP, Pink Friday, dropped in November…
TheGrio’s 100 – With a Harvard MBA and management experience at Disney and the NBA, Rice founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) in 2000…
TheGrio’s 100 – As a volunteer attorney, Kenneth Frazier won the 1997 release of James “Bo” Cochran, who spent 19 years on death row for a murder he didn’t commit…