Black History Month

White House correspondents Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne
The WHCA will present the “Dunnigan-Payne Prize” to the families of Dunnigan and Payne at this year's White House Correspondents…
/ April 25, 2022
The late Frank E. Petersen Jr. was the Marine Corp’s first Black aviator and officer to reach the rank of…
/ April 24, 2022
Emmett Till's relatives still want to see justice done in his 1955 murder, and that includes arresting his accuser Carolyn…
/ April 22, 2022
Black, entrepreneurs, bill, theGrio.com
Several historically Black colleges and universities in Georgia will receive federal funding thanks to efforts made by U.S. Sen. Jon…
/ April 22, 2022
Mwai Kibaki, the former Kenyan president, has died at the age of 90. The cause of death was not given.
/ April 22, 2022
Parents are split amid claims of racism at Bellaire High School involving a baseball coach, team members and an opposing…
/ April 21, 2022
The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader killed during a 1969 police raid, has…
/ April 21, 2022
An abandoned, historic Black cemetery in Central Florida will be restored thanks to a half-million-dollar grant from state officials. 
/ April 19, 2022
Archeologist Camille Westmont is on a mission to find the descendants of convicts who worked the mines in Tennessee after…
/ April 16, 2022
Howard University president Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick has announced that he plans to retire in 2024 after nine years on…
/ April 15, 2022
Baseball player Jackie Robinson, thegrio.com
April 15 marks the 75th anniversary of Robinson smashing Major League Baseball’s color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn…
/ April 15, 2022
Curtis Symonds is a media veteran who began his career at BET, helped make it successful, and is the co-founder…
/ April 14, 2022