Black History Month

More than 150 years ago this week, the Underground Railroad began, giving slaves in the South a chance at freedom.…
/ August 9, 2009
This afternoon, the Senate voted to make Sonia Sotomayor the first Latina and only the third woman...
/ August 6, 2009
When Ariel Brown was offered a chance to transcribe the correspondence of the first family of the Confederacy, the history…
/ August 6, 2009
Naomi Sims, the first black fashion model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal, has died. She was…
/ August 4, 2009
The New York Police Department's first black officer is being honored. An intersection in Harlem -- West 135th Street and…
/ August 4, 2009
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