Black History Month

VIDEO - Three members of the famed post-Civil War-era Buffalo Soldiers, whose remains were disinterred during a federal grave-looting investigation…
/ July 29, 2009
On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving…
/ July 28, 2009
E. Lynn Harris, a pioneer of gay black fiction and a literary entrepreneur who rose from self-publishing to best-selling status,…
/ July 24, 2009
As so many of the nation's newspapers are shuttering, one publication continues to thrive through the decades. The Philadelphia Tribune…
/ July 23, 2009
Charles Bolden, Nominee for Administrator of NASA, testifying at his confirmation hearing before the senate (AP Photo/Bill Ingalls, NASA) Attending
/ July 20, 2009
A Virginia newspaper expressed regret Thursday for supporting a systematic campaign by the state's white political leaders to maintain separate…
/ July 16, 2009
The Senate confirmed on Wednesday retired astronaut Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden as administrator of NASA, just in time for the…
/ July 16, 2009
In the early 1900s, vicious attacks against African Americans were almost as common in the North as in the South.
/ July 16, 2009
In 1957, the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a battleground in the fight for school
/ July 13, 2009
In Arkansas Sataurday, it was a memorable reunion for a senior class that didnt exist. Classmates from the Horace Mann…
/ July 12, 2009
In anticipation of Barack Obama’s arrival to Ghana today, theGrio reflects on former President Bill Clinton’s twelve-day tour of Africa
/ July 10, 2009
ALSIP, Illinois (AP) -- While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic…
/ July 10, 2009