Black History Month

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma civil rights icon Clara Luper, who led sit-ins at drug store lunch counters in Oklahoma,…
/ June 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Minority enrollment in colleges are dropping due to costs. A new initiative aims at providing black college…
/ June 9, 2011
VIDEO - Catherine Ferguson Academy is unlike any other school in the country. It has been educating teen mothers since…
/ June 8, 2011
VIDEO - Instead of being in his sophomore year in high school, 15-year-old Stephen Stafford is a sophomore at Morehouse…
/ June 8, 2011
VIDEO - Philadelphia students redefined themselves - no longer accepting the term dropout by referring to themselves as push-outs...
/ June 8, 2011
SLIDESHOW - In honor of Black Music History Month, theGrio has compiled this list of the most incredible African-American guitars…
/ June 7, 2011
OPINION - The latest frontline of the public school vs. charter school battlefield is happening in the most famous African-American…
/ June 7, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pratt died at his home in a small village in Tanzania, where he had lived for…
/ June 3, 2011
OPINION - What if we moved from the fun and scandalous, and actually used Twitter to do something useful?
/ June 3, 2011
CONNECTICUT - For homeless families the prospect of school registration is daunting as many states require all students have a…
/ June 2, 2011
SLIDESHOW - In honor of Black Music History Month, here are 25 songs that speak to music's ability to evoke…
/ June 1, 2011
OPINION - The irony is that Heron took great pains to distance himself from many of the rap artists that…
/ May 29, 2011