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Minnesota, Colorado and Michigan are among states making school breakfasts and lunches permanently free to all students.
/ August 27, 2023
Reggie Chaney, a forward who was part of Houston’s Final Four team in 2021, has died. He was 23 when…
/ August 27, 2023
The American women’s 4x400 relay team was disqualified from the world championships Saturday after runners bungled the baton exchange.
/ August 27, 2023
A white gunman killed three Black people before taking his own life in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida.
/ August 27, 2023
Ida B. Wells, 1893 Chicago world fair, World's Columbian Exposition, white city, Frederick Douglass, Black family reunions, Black protests, theGrio.com
From informal congregations to consciousness-shifting protests, both chosen and familial gatherings of Black people remain a source of power.
/ August 27, 2023
A white man fatally shot three people inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store on Saturday in a predominately Black…
/ August 26, 2023
Tupac, Dear Mama, thegrio.com
Books from a range of Black writers, including Ayana Mathis, Teju Cole, Zadie Smith, Major Jackson and Walter Mosley, are…
/ August 26, 2023
President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus…
/ August 26, 2023
Thousands converged on the National Mall on Saturday for the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington.
/ August 26, 2023
Former Southern California running back Reggie Bush plans to a defamation suit against the NCAA over its decision not to…
/ August 26, 2023
Republicans on Friday chose Houston to host their 2028 national convention, hoping to cement support in Texas.
/ August 26, 2023
Israel-Hamas war
An expected crowd of tens of thousands of people are gathering Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the "I…
/ August 26, 2023