Black History Month

Rosa Parks' political journey didn't begin on the bus

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Slideshow: It happened this week in black history 11/28 – 12/4

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Black students bear brunt of corporal punishment in schools

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Google recognizes Rosa Parks' courageous act

VIDEO - December 1st, 2010 marked the 55th anniversary of the fateful day Rosa Parks refused to give up her…
/ December 2, 2010

MLK Memorial takes shape on National Mall in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) - A short distance from where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, a…
/ December 2, 2010

History or heresy? Texas woman wants to preserve segregated cemetery

VIDEO - The Ross Cemetery just off Highway 5 between McKinney and Fairview was established in the 1800s as a…
/ December 1, 2010

Oakland helps African-American youth focus on education

Two out of three of the young people being held in juvenile detention centers in August and September in that…
/ November 29, 2010

Why Walter Kimbrough is the 'hip-hop college president'

OPINION - Philander Smith is a small historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was pretty known for being…
/ November 26, 2010

Years later, Miss. still lacks civil rights museum

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The absence of a state museum to acknowledge these events leads some to question whether Mississippi…
/ November 25, 2010

Cosby takes message about education to the streets

VIDEO - On Tuesday, Cosby went door to door with the superintendent of New Haven, CT to encourage children to…
/ November 24, 2010

John Legend: 'All kids deserve great education' (VIDEO)

theGRIO VIDEO - When he's not in the studio or on tour, Grammy-award winning singer John Legend is trying to…
/ November 24, 2010

Founder of Chicago's DuSable Museum dies

CHICAGO (AP) - President Obama said in a statement that Burroughs was "widely admired for her contributions to American culture…
/ November 22, 2010

The Young, Gifted & Black: A look at African-American education

OPINION - The status quo is unacceptable, the comfortable need to be afflicted, and when it comes to the education…
/ November 22, 2010

What colleges are doing right for black male students

OPINION - Our young men are an endangered breed. And the higher the level of education, the more endangered they…
/ November 19, 2010

CA school district: Students can't skip same-sex ed

VIDEO - Angry parents in the Vallejo Unified School District packed the district's office Wednesday evening to protest a plan…
/ November 18, 2010