Black History Month

Time well served for black seaman in Jim Crow era

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Harvard's course on 'The Wire' should require 'in the hood' training

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Oldest African-American siblings share 324 years of history

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Black woman is the highest paid college president

(AP) - Topping the list of the nation's highest-paid university presidents is Shirley Ann Jackson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in…
/ November 2, 2009

Museum named in honor of Charlotte’s first black mayor

VIDEO - With the opening of the Harvey Gantt Museum in Charlotte, a page of history is turned by a…
/ October 27, 2009

Uncle Remus museum still grapples with race issues

Elementary school students in the room shriek with delight at Wren's Nest, the very house where newspaperman and author Joel…
/ October 26, 2009

Returning to ‘the jungle’ 35 years after the fight

OPINION - The Congo is plagued by a horrific civil war in the east where tens of thousands of women…
/ October 23, 2009

Black male teachers absent from America’s classrooms (VIDEO)

theGRIO VIDEO - Sometimes, it takes a student to school the teacher. And this is what happened to sixth-grade teacher…
/ October 22, 2009

Women pastors break the stained-glass ceiling

VIDEO - It's a typical Sunday at a church in Harlem, New York. Except with Reverend Kim Anderson at the…
/ October 21, 2009

Some seek high tech solutions for education

VIDEO - In an age where technology is so much a part of our lives, many say the U.S. education…
/ October 14, 2009

Hypocrisy reigns for critics of the first non-black Miss Hampton U

OPINION - The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the…
/ October 14, 2009

Public education needs to embrace the Information Age

OPINION - African-American youth are not receiving the tools to critically analyze the information and media messages with which they…
/ October 13, 2009

A visit to the Georgia town of Michelle Obama’s roots

VIDEO - "It's such a wonderful story to hear that she has roots here," said local seamstress Naomi Gilson. "But…
/ October 10, 2009

Navy honors slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for…
/ October 9, 2009

The roots of ‘good hair’ are about survival, not beauty

OPINION - The term "good hair" harks back to antebellum America, when slaves knew that the less African they appeared,…
/ October 9, 2009