Black History Month

TheGrio’s 100: Clarence Otis Jr, serving 400 million meals a year

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TheGrio’s 100: Dr. Otis Brawley, straight talk on prostate cancer

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TheGrio’s 100: Tracy Reese, designer for the first lady and the American woman

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Calif.’s Negrohead Mountain renamed in honor of black pioneer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A peak previously known as Negrohead Mountain in Southern California's Santa Monica range was officially renamed…
/ February 21, 2010

Malcolm X’s legacy ignored 45 years after his murder

OPINION - Malcolm's legacy has been treated like the neglected step-child of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality...
/ February 19, 2010

TheGrio Reflects: Malcolm X rails against complacent civil rights activists

VIDEO - At a June 1964 rally, Malcolm X criticizes the Civil Rights Bill emerging from Congress...
/ February 19, 2010

Slideshow: Worst obstructionists in black history

African-Americans have been met with numerous road blocks to freedom but have nonetheless held firm that the US Constitution guarantees…
/ February 18, 2010

TheGrio’s 100: Artur Davis, looking to be the new face of Dixie politics

TheGrio's 100 - Can an African-American become the next Governor of Alabama? Once unthinkable in a state infamous for its…
/ February 18, 2010

Slideshow: The 25 most influential albums by African-Americans

These albums introduced new textures and ideas into pop culture...
/ February 16, 2010

Why Obama resembles George Washington more than you’d think

OPINION - On President's Day, African-Americans might want to give props to the father of our country...
/ February 15, 2010

Quincy Jones and Will.i.am on the importance of black history

VIDEO - It's hard to amass a musical resume as diverse as Quincy Jones'. The famed music producer has worked…
/ February 11, 2010

South Africans celebrate 20 years of change

JOHANNESBURG - The meaning of Mandela's release doesn't only resonate with South Africans of color. It hits home to white…
/ February 11, 2010

Mandela’s freedom has been a dream, South Africa remains a nightmare

OPINION - One could argue that Nelson Mandela's release from prison 20 years ago was similar to the Obama effect...
/ February 11, 2010

TheGrio Reflects: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul

VIDEO - "The Queen Of Soul", "Lady Soul"..."Re-Re"... Whatever you call her... You have got to give her some R-E-S-P-E-C-T...
/ February 10, 2010

NBC’s Lester Holt: America ‘can never forget our jazz roots’

VIDEO - "Jazz is a part of American history. It's a uniquely American art form and certainly black Americans were…
/ February 10, 2010