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In honor of Black History Month and James Baldwin's centennial birthday, Google unveiled a Doodle in his honor.
Carroll is currently the showrunner for three network shows, including "All American" and its spinoff, "All American: Homecoming."
Iconic poet Sonia Sanchez was awarded the $80K Jackson Poetry Prize, honoring her seven-decade career in the arts.
As Ntozake Shange's 'for colored girls' production prepares for its Broadway revival, theGrio spoke with its director and cast.
The Gilded Age's Peggy Scott is a rare depiction of elite Black women in the 19th century. One prototype was…
The Wentzville School Board has reversed its ban of "The Bluest Eye" one month after voting to remove it from…
Troupe will discuss his decades-long writing career in a virtual roundtable with friends Danny Glover and Terry McMillan on February…
From new releases to modern classics, these children's books were written to educate, empower and inspire Black children.
Tracy Oliver inked new deal with Apple to produce content. The multi-year deal will allow her to create across TV…
Celebrated author Eric Jerome Dickey who penned such classics as ‘Sister, Sister’ about contemporary Black life has died.
Jazz writer and critic Stanley Crouch has died at the age of 74, his wife announced. Crouch was known for…
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose childhood on a Louisiana plantation germinated stories of grace and beauty, has died. He was…
Jan. 20, 2017, will forever be remembered as a very somber day. It marked the swearing in of a man
theGRIO REPORT - The New York Times’ summer reading list left out a whole lotta blackness. The Times list contained…
While we celebrate those known folks during the month of February—the seemingly usual suspects—we must never forget those not-so-famous people…
theGRIO'S 100 - Dinaw Mengestu, 34, has been praised for his work exploring the identities of Africans transitioning to life…