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February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - The New York-based painter has recently made a splash in the art world for his paintings of…
February 1, 2010
theGrio's 100 - Omo Moses speaks like a true activist, following in the path of the great men who share…
February 1, 2010
VIDEO - In honor of Black History Month, on her final trip to Britain as U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza…
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Dr. Satira Streeter decided to set up her clinical psychology practice in a neighborhood that before her…
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Did you know that it's cool to be black and green? Kari Fulton has been leading the…
February 1, 2010
In honor of Black History Month, a love of astronomy leads to an historic trip in orbit...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - LeBron James was celebrated as 'The Chosen One' on the cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine...
January 25, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - An interactive exhibit chronicling the lives of 20 black women who played roles in the struggle for…
December 24, 2009
OPINION -- It wasn't the usual kind of Christmas present you'd expect an employee to give his boss at the…
December 20, 2009
VIDEO - In light of the discovery of raided graves at the cemetery where he was buried, theGrio looks back…
December 16, 2009
VIDEO - Jazz lovers have new music to groove to from a familiar voice: Ella Fitzgerald's. But this music is…
December 15, 2009
VIDEO - Although the Mammy depicted in a film is a stereotype, it's still a fact in American film history,…
December 15, 2009
OPINION - This film that is so highly revered in Hollywood as one of the best American films ever made,…
December 9, 2009
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport, race and Nelson Mandela will tell the world…
December 7, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - This is a critical time for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum as it winds down…
December 4, 2009
The proposed Museum of African American History and Culture is slated to be built at one of the National Mall's…
November 23, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957,…
November 18, 2009
OPINION - Beatings are still prevalent as a child-rearing tool in the African-American community, a practice which hearkens back to…
November 17, 2009
OPINION - Does the current rise of minorities in American society signify the end of a fight for civil equality?
November 14, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney's first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is,…