Black History Month

TheGrio.com and Foursquare have teamed up to create a black history "badge". Foursquare users can check in at more than…
/ February 1, 2011
MSNBC - Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a…
/ February 1, 2011
FERRIDAY, La. (AP) - Arthur Leonard Spencer says sure, he made some mistakes back when he was a "snot-nose kid,"…
/ February 1, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York will highlight these and…
/ February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - After obesity factored in her sister's death, Linda Fondren made it her mission to get Mississippi, the…
/ February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Most professional musicians dedicate at least a decade to their instruments before being invited to perform at…
/ February 1, 2011
OPINION - Considering the constant stream of half-truths and whole lies it must combat, Black History Month definitely has not…
/ February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - In 1993, Lisa Price started Carol's Daughter, a multimillion-dollar beauty business, with $100 and a homemade lotion…
/ February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided…
/ February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - If Jill Scott isn't recording or touring for a Grammy-award winning album, chances are the soulful songstress…
/ February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day...
/ February 1, 2011
Every February TheGrio looks at the men and women who are making a difference in black communities and across the
/ February 1, 2011