Black History Month

2013 National Report Card: Most 4th and 8th graders lack basic math and science skills

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Slideshow: #GHOE North Carolina A&T's 2013 Homecoming

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Supreme Court rejects appeal of Schwerner-Chaney-Goodman 'Mississippi Burning' case

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'12 Years a Slave' has ties to DC-area site

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The painful story of a free black man lured from his home in New York in…
/ November 4, 2013

Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo win NYC Marathon

NBC NEWS - Kenyans Priscah Jeptoo and Geoffrey Mutai won the women's and men’s race, respectively at the New York…
/ November 3, 2013

California high school bans twerking

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) — One Southern California high school has added twerking to its list of dances that are…
/ October 30, 2013

A brief history of blackface

theGRIO REPORT - The history of blackface minstrelsy isn’t talked about regularly today, but its cultural residue is all around…
/ October 30, 2013

Shaquille O’Neal endorses Chris Christie in new campaign video

theGRIO REPORT - Shaquille O'Neal is featured in a new political campaign ad calling on New Jersey residents to vote…
/ October 27, 2013

Darrell Wallace Jr. sets NASCAR milestone, becomes first black driver to win race in 50 years

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Darrell Wallace Jr. became the second black driver to win on NASCAR's national level and first…
/ October 27, 2013

Rush Limbaugh: ‘You don’t put the NFL in pink for a month’

theGRIO REPORT - Rush Limbaugh has raised eyebrows with comments he made about the NFL's recognition of Breast Cancer Month…
/ October 24, 2013

Michael Steele on why HBCUs are hanging by a thread

OPINION - Not only do our HBCUs stand as a testament to the challenges that lie in the future but…
/ October 24, 2013

Overall grad rates improve for college athletes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — College athletes are graduating at an all-time high rate, the NCAA said Thursday...
/ October 24, 2013

$75 million black history museum envisioned in SC

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Standing near where tens of thousands of African slaves landed in Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley…
/ October 24, 2013

2 Miss. museums to take on its turbulent history

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own…
/ October 23, 2013

A look at devotionals that start President Obama’s day

(AP) - A look at some of the devotionals, abridged for space, that have started the president's day...
/ October 20, 2013