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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MARCH 27: Artemis II crew member pilot Victor Glover gives a thumbs up after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center on March 27, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The astronauts arrived to begin preparations for an April 1, 2026 launch for a 10-day mission, which will take them around the Moon and back to Earth. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) theGrio.com
April 1, 2026
NASA astronaut Victor Glover is set to pilot Artemis II, becoming the first Black astronaut to travel to the moon…
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March 23, 2026
In 1963, Miss Mary Hamilton was held in contempt when officials failed to call her Miss. In 1964, the US…
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March 20, 2026
A BTS promo video sparked backlash, and revealed a forgotten piece of Black history tied to Howard University.
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March 18, 2026
“This is more than a record attempt,” Anita Lewis and Gwendolyn Ebron on their potentially record-breaking Black history lesson.
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March 13, 2026
Black historical interpreters are using reenactments and storytelling to center the Black figures that history books often leave behind.
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March 5, 2026
Weeksville was the second-largest free Black community in the pre-Civil War era, and Mayor Mamdani wants to make sure you…
Ayanna Pressley, theGrio.com
February 26, 2026
Pressley tells theGrio the resolution seeks to counter Trump's attempts to "rewrite and whitewash" Black history through executive action.
The Freedom House Ambulance Service, theGrio.com
February 25, 2026
A bill seeks to award the Freedom House with a Congressional Gold Medal to be displayed at the National Museum…
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February 19, 2026
The slavery exhibit outside of the President's House historical site in Philadelphia is being restored after its removal in January.
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February 17, 2026
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center was founded in 1961 by Dr. Margaret Taylor Burroughs.
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February 17, 2026
A federal judge orders the restoration of the Philadelphia slavery exhibit, after its "arbitrary and capricious" removal last month.
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February 13, 2026
Both enslaved and free Black Americans played a critical role in the human labor that erected the White House in…
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February 11, 2026
Experts reveal that Manhattan’s first landmark building, the Merchant’s House Museum, was an underground railroad safe house
Medgar Evers, Medgar Evers Park Service, Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument theGrio.com
February 5, 2026
Critics say new edits to National Park Service materials strip away the violent, racist reality of Medgar Evers’ murder.
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February 2, 2026
At the 2026 Grammys, Shaboozey set social media ablaze after declaring that immigrants built America on the first day of…
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January 31, 2026
A judge in Philadelphia has warned the Justice Department over its removal of a slavery exhibit outside the former President's…
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January 23, 2026
The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration over the removal of exhibits honoring slavery from its historic President’s…
Gladys West interview with Virginia Tech
January 20, 2026
Gladys West, the mathematician and technologist whose models led to the invention of the GPS, has died at the age…
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January 15, 2026
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is featuring the collections from historically Black colleges and universities.
USPS Phillis Wheatley stamp
January 6, 2026
USPS announced it will honor Phillis Wheatley in a new stamp for its Black Heritage stamp series this month.