Black History Month

The Tuskegee Airmen are being honored for the new year. Not with speeches, medals or awards--but a float in a…
/ December 29, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- Ann Nixon Cooper was remembered as a charismatic woman who, after toiling through the civil rights era,…
/ December 29, 2009
VIDEO - In light of the discovery of raided graves at the cemetery where he was buried, theGrio looks back…
/ December 20, 2009
VIDEO - Although the Mammy depicted in a film is a stereotype, it's still a fact in American film history,…
/ December 15, 2009
VIDEO - High school juniors Devonte Escoffery and Stephon Adams have made their school's debate team their number one priority...
/ December 15, 2009
Without question, Morgan Freeman is one of the greatest actors of our time - of any race, from any genre.…
/ December 12, 2009
OPINION - Many adult Americans are finding themselves in a place they never thought they'd be again - back in…
/ December 10, 2009
The proposed Museum of African American History and Culture is slated to be built at one of the National Mall's…
/ December 4, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957,…
/ November 23, 2009
OPINION - Beatings are still prevalent as a child-rearing tool in the African-American community, a practice which hearkens back to…
/ November 18, 2009
FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming…
/ November 18, 2009
OPINION - Does the current rise of minorities in American society signify the end of a fight for civil equality?
/ November 17, 2009