Black History Month

Theodore Lumpkin Jr. was just days short of his 101st birthday. Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black pilots in the…
/ January 9, 2021
It took a high-stakes Senate race and a Trump-era cultural debate to thrust Ebenezer Baptist Church into the center of…
/ January 3, 2021
Once a store filled with racist merchandise, the Redneck Shop in Laurens, SC will become a diversity center and museum…
/ January 2, 2021
Tulsa race riot
Oklahoma began a centennial remembrance Friday of a once-thriving African American neighborhood in Tulsa decimated by deadly white violence.
/ January 2, 2021
In 1856, Martin Henry Freeman became president of the all-Black Allegheny Institute and Mission Church, later named Avery College.
/ December 26, 2020
Juneteenth thegrio.com
Juneteenth is now officially recognized as a holiday for Cook County employees to celebrate Black Americans' emancipation from slavery.
/ December 20, 2020
The racial restrictions barred nearly 300 homes near Rochester, New York from being sold to non-white buyers.
/ December 19, 2020
April Ryan thegrio.com
April Ryan has signed with Byron Allen's Allen Media Group to serve as White House Correspondent, D.C. Bureau Chief for…
/ December 16, 2020
Morehouse thegrio.com
George Wells, a business executive in New York City, donated $1 million worth of art to his alma mater, Morehouse…
/ December 13, 2020
Tiffany Cross thegrio.com
Tiffany Cross, the host of MSNBC's 'The Cross Connection,' says her show represents a new dawn of diversity for cable…
/ December 11, 2020
Midshipman Sydney Barber, who will be the first Black woman U.S. Naval Academy brigade commander, said 2020 protests inspired her…
/ December 6, 2020
The National Civil Rights Museum, the site of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, in Tennessee is looking for…
/ December 5, 2020