Black History Month

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
U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock reflects on connection to King from Morehouse's campus to the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist…
/ December 1, 2020
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