Black History Month

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) — School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.

WACO, Texas (AP) — Brittney Griner arrived at Baylor known as the girl who could dunk….

NBC New York – A Long Island middle school principal was arrested for allegedly forcing a 16-year-old boy he met on a social networking site to engage in sexual acts with him at his home, police said.

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — President Barack Obama is picking Florida, Indiana, Louisville, Ohio State to reach the Final Four…

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AP) – Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960s, has died. He was 82…

ESSAY – There is no denying that each of these women played more than their part in uplifting their race and their gender…

theGRIO REPORT – Ethiopian-born Miss Israel Yityish Aynaw received a special invitation to meet and dine with President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres during Obama’s upcoming trip to the Middle Eastern country…