Black History Month

theGRIO REPORT - While a handful of detractors call these ceremonies discriminatory, a large number of students and professors laud…
/ May 10, 2011
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Charles Reed Jr. is skipping his college graduation ceremony to do something much more significant to…
/ May 9, 2011
VIDEO - Sometimes giving back to the community can take up as little as one hour a month. For the…
/ May 5, 2011
After weeks of debate, 15-year-old Saheela Ibraheem settled on attending Harvard after being accepted to 13 colleges -- including six…
/ May 5, 2011
SLIDESHOW - This week marks the start of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights Freedom Riders, who traveled by…
/ May 4, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - This month, students will retrace the Freedom Rides. Also, PBS will premiere a new documentary on the…
/ May 4, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools…
/ May 3, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Oprah Winfrey is marking the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride...
/ May 3, 2011
OPINION - I have never met Kelley Williams or Tanya MacDowell. I know their stories not only because I read…
/ May 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The strike was the scene of Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign before an assassin's bullet took…
/ April 29, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Running on a campaign platform of job creation and economic development, finance attorney Terri Sewell struck a…
/ April 28, 2011
VIDEO - A new exhibit at the Excelsior Center shows the impact of King's visit and arrest on the city…
/ April 27, 2011