Black History Month

Morgan Radford to serve in new role as anchor on NBC News Now

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Dr. Fauci Testifies Before Senate Committee On Federal Response To COVID-19

Fauci speaks on vaccine passport controversy

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Zola Mashariki to lead Amazon’s Audible Studios

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Phylicia Rashad thegrio.com

Phylicia Rashad honors the ‘service and upliftment’ of Alpha Kappa Alpha

Phylicia Rashād speaks to theGrio about narrating Twenty Pearls, a documentary about the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
/ April 5, 2021
Bernice King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Bernice King maintains father’s assassination was government ‘conspiracy’

Bernice King recalls graphic autopsy images that she believes prove James Earl Ray did not assassinate her father, Dr. Martin…
/ April 4, 2021

What impact did King’s assassination have on the Black community?

This article discusses how understanding Black America's response to MLK's assassination requires a grasp on the role of trauma in…
/ April 4, 2021

Alvin Sykes, civil rights activist who investigated cold cases, dies at 64

Alvin Sykes was a self-taught legal defender and known for reopening cold cases such as the murder of Emmett Till.
/ March 31, 2021
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Tarana Burke and Stacey Abrams

From abolitionism to women’s suffrage, Black women are the pioneers of movements

Black women fought on the front lines of nearly every American sociopolitical movement. But what have they received in return?
/ March 30, 2021
Sheen Center Presents Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams talks George Floyd and combating systematic oppression: ‘I was numb for days then it all turns to anger’

Vanessa Williams talks about George Floyd and combating systematic oppression with other actors through the Black Theatre United program.
/ March 30, 2021

William Walker becomes first Black sergeant-at-arms in Congress

Maj. Gen. William Walker will replace Paul Irving, who resigned immediately after the Capitol insurrection.
/ March 27, 2021

Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims

Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over claims Trump and his allies made about…
/ March 26, 2021

Amanda Gorman says speech impediment ‘greatest strength’ during Oprah sit down

Amanda Gorman sat down with Orprah Winfrey to discuss how her disability has made her journey far from easy.
/ March 25, 2021

Radio host Rob Lederman fired for rating Black women’s skin based on toast

Radio host Rob Lederman was fired after an on-air exchange comparing the skin tones of prominent Black women to toaster…
/ March 24, 2021
Danielle Belton thegrio.com

Danielle Belton departs the Root to take top job at Huffington Post

Danielle Belton confirmed today that she's leaving her job as editor-in-chief of The Root to to take the same job…
/ March 24, 2021
The 2020 Sports Illustrated Awards

Cari Champion: ‘Use your platform for good’

Multimedia personality Cari Champion is one of our Black Women Amplified, 10 Black women who are moving the culture forward.
/ March 24, 2021