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From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried…
OPINION - HBCUs are not just relevant, they are a necessary tool of educational obtainment for some black, and even…
VIDEO - For more than a century, historically black colleges and universities -- HBCUs -- have focused on educating the…
OPINION -- The last time I met with Michael, we saw each other from across the room and he made…
OPINION -- In today's age, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about health care reform as a matter of…
OPINION - A member of Congress requested use of our church to have a town hall meeting on health care…
Politicians, business leaders, and educators gathered at the national mall in Washington, DC to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and…
OPINION - While on the Vineyard, you're just as likely to bump into a New York City office security guard…
CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one…
President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to 16 "agents of change" on Wednesday, highlighting their accomplishments as…
VIDEO - A civil rights icon who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped lead the Montgomery…
As President Obama and the nation's lawmakers tackle hot-button issues like health care reform, momentum is quietly building to honor…
More than 150 years ago this week, the Underground Railroad began, giving slaves in the South a chance at freedom.…
This afternoon, the Senate voted to make Sonia Sotomayor the first Latina and only the third woman...
Naomi Sims, the first black fashion model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal, has died. She was…
On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving…
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A boyhood home of writer Langston Hughes has been sold in foreclosure...
On the 50th anniversary of Holiday's death, a Baltimore statue of the jazz icon now bears images evoking the anti-racism…