Black History Month

Emmett Till house, theGrio.com
A cultural preservation organization is awarding a total of $3 million in grants to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are…
/ July 19, 2022
Jackie Robinson’s legacy will loom large over Tuesday’s All-Star game at Dodger Stadium.
/ July 19, 2022
Archaeologists in Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation's oldest Black churches…
/ July 19, 2022
The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs will celebrate its 126th anniversary in Little Rock this month.
/ July 18, 2022
Carolyn Bryant Donham says in the unpublished memoir she “paid dearly with an altered life” for what happened to Emmett…
/ July 16, 2022
Lawyers for Muhammad Aziz, who spent two decades in prison for Malcolm X's 1965 murder, filed a civil rights lawsuit…
/ July 15, 2022
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 believe they are descendants of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can give genetic material to help…
/ July 14, 2022
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
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
A podcast spearhead by Derrick Alridge shares the stories of more than 300 educators in South Carolina during the Civil…
/ July 12, 2022
The descendants of the enslaved people aboard the Clotilda held a ceremony in Africa Town, Alabama, to mark the anniversary of…
/ July 11, 2022