Black History Month

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as…
/ April 26, 2010
SLIDESHOW - theGrio checks out 10 African-American museums for your next travel destination...
/ April 24, 2010
VIDEO - TheGrios 100 - Will Allen of Growing Power aims to help bring about the "good food revolution...
/ April 22, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - After years of fighting for social justice, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks will be laid…
/ April 21, 2010
SLIDESHOW - Height, whose activism on behalf of women and minorities dated to the New Deal, led the National Council…
/ April 20, 2010
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Down here, there are no memorials to ancient battles, no ornate headstones honoring long-dead dignitaries...
/ April 20, 2010
OPINION - Dorothy Height reminds us that even long lives are far too short, and that the time for action…
/ April 20, 2010
The late Dorothy Height dedicated every moment of her being to service, to create the best world possible for all...
/ April 20, 2010
While budgets need to be balanced, this tendency to cut schools in order to reduce budget deficits creates a concerning…
/ April 19, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Hooks took over the NAACP in 1977 and, by declaring "the civil rights movement is not…
/ April 15, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - On Wednesday, two of King's children helped break ground on a center for financial literacy and economic…
/ April 7, 2010
Dr. John S. Wilson, a Morehouse and Harvard alum, explains how education reforms Obama signs into law today will directly…
/ March 30, 2010