Black History Month

Emmett Till house, theGrio.com

Emmett Till’s house, other historical Black sites to get preservation funds

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Jackie Robinson’s legacy looms in tonight’s All Star game. It’s also his wife’s 100th birthday

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Grave excavation begins at Black church formed in 1776 by free and enslaved people

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National Association of Colored Women’s Club, co-founded by Tubman, convening in Arkansas

The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs will celebrate its 126th anniversary in Little Rock this month.
/ July 18, 2022

Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, says both were victims

Carolyn Bryant Donham says in the unpublished memoir she “paid dearly with an altered life” for what happened to Emmett…
/ July 16, 2022

Man wrongly convicted of murdering Malcolm X sues NYC for $40M 

Lawyers for Muhammad Aziz, who spent two decades in prison for Malcolm X's 1965 murder, filed a civil rights lawsuit…
/ July 15, 2022

Historian gives news agency memoir of woman who accused Emmett Till. It says she ‘tried to protect him’

The white woman who accused Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 says she…
/ July 15, 2022
Tulsa race massacre

People who think they’re related to Tulsa Massacre victims can submit DNA to help identify remains

People who believe they are descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can give genetic material to help…
/ July 14, 2022

Son of sharecroppers, HBCU grad was the man who fixed NASA’s giant space telescope 

Gregory Robinson took over as program director of a long-stalled NASA project that had cost nearly $8 billion — and…
/ July 12, 2022
mary mcleod bethune statue

Mary McLeod Bethune sculpture to be unveiled in Capitol Wednesday; first Black person featured in Statuary Hall 

Statues of Blacks in other parts of the Capitol honor Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Rosa…
/ July 12, 2022
Civil rights

Oral histories of nearly 300 civil rights era teachers reveal their activist roles in new podcast

A podcast spearhead by Derrick Alridge shares the stories of more than 300 educators in South Carolina during the Civil…
/ July 12, 2022

As a bet, man sneaked in a slave ship in 1860. Kin of those Africans honored them this weekend

The descendants of the enslaved people aboard the Clotilda held a ceremony in Africa Town, Alabama, to mark the anniversary of…
/ July 11, 2022

Philly leaders under fire for excluding Black artists from $500,000 Harriet Tubman project

Area artists feel cheated since Wesley Wofford was commissioned outright without officials requesting sketches or ideas from others.
/ July 11, 2022

Willie Lee Morrow, barber who made Afro pick popular and inspired the Jheri Curl, has died 

Morrow, the inventive son of Alabama sharecroppers, died late last month at his home in San Diego of pneumonia. He…
/ July 8, 2022

Lisa Holder White becomes first Black woman on Illinois Supreme Court

A 54-year-old Republican from Decatur, Holder White has sat on the bench for 21 years, beginning as an associate circuit…
/ July 8, 2022