Black History Month

Courtney Smith Detroit Phoenix Center homelessness
Courtney Smith founded the Detroit Phoenix Center to help find solutions for youth homelessness in her hometown.
/ November 30, 2020
The Rhodes Trust announced winners, which include 22 students of color. Ten are Black, which ties the record for the…
/ November 22, 2020
Lil Keke, one of Texas hip-hop’s most influential rappers, says the roughly 50-minute “visual tribute” is being released at the…
/ November 15, 2020
Betsy DeVos thegrio.com
President-elect Joe Biden is planning an overhaul in education and has plans to replace Secretary Betsy DeVos with an educator.
/ November 9, 2020
"It’s easier to be a parent this morning, it’s easier to be a dad," Jones said in a Saturday appearance…
/ November 7, 2020
Morehouse College Commencement
HBCUs are, for the first time, a focus in the presidential general election as both President Trump and Joe Biden…
/ October 30, 2020
Clemson University thegrio.com
Hundreds of unmarked graves that date back to hundreds of years ago were uncovered on the South Carolina college campus.
/ October 30, 2020
The Virginia Military Institute will remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson amid an investigation into ongoing racism.
/ October 29, 2020
D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory is set to become the first Black U.S. prelate to assume the rank of cardinal in…
/ October 25, 2020
Community advocates are skeptical that the Trump administration is more concerend about getting votes than protecting air and water.
/ October 25, 2020
Dr. Irving P. McPhail, who became president of St. Augustine's University this summer, died days after testing positive for coronavirus.
/ October 25, 2020
Sixty students at three historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) will have their entire tuition paid by Morgan Stanley.
/ October 21, 2020