Black History Month

theGRIO's 100 - Comedian and actor Kevin Hart has been keeping audiences in stitches for more than a decade...
/ January 31, 2012
From ajc-- In a press release issued by the Atlanta school, Franklin will remain at the college until the end…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - In 2006, Tyrone Curry won $3.4 million and continued working, even donating $40,000 to the school where…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Traci Lester is the executive director of Reach Out and Read's Greater New York branch, which works…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Playwright and actor Tarell Alvin McCraney is catching the attention of the theater world with a trilogy…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Tiya Miles, Ph.D., has devoted her life to studying the literature, culture and history of African and…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks are the founders of Black Girls Run!, a website that provides tips…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Twenty-one-year-old rapper Nitty Scott became an overnight sensation when she made her national debut during the "BET…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Dr. Sandra Tucker has been praised for her work as dean of the school of nursing at…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Laurel Richie, as the president of the WNBA, has no sports background but decades of business and…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Tia Norfleet is making history as the first and only woman to be issued a NASCAR license…
/ January 31, 2012
theGRIO's 100 - Bonita Carr, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Lighthouse Youth Center in Chicago's South Side neighborhood…
/ January 31, 2012