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February 3, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Richard Buery Jr. is the president and CEO of the Children's Aid Society...
January 19, 2010
From The Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature…
January 15, 2010
VIDEO - It's 10-year-old Galdenia's first time out of her country Haiti. However, her trip to Santo Domingo is no…
January 11, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than…
December 29, 2009
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Investigators were working to figure out what sparked a Mississippi apartment fire that killed six children…
December 13, 2009
VIDEO - In Zachary, Louisiana, the students from the Louisiana School for the Blind searched for just the right tree...
November 17, 2009
Would you send your child to school halfway across the world if it meant the chance to escape the distractions…
November 17, 2009
OPINION - A recent study has suggested that ethnic pride plays a positive role in the mental health of African-American…
November 6, 2009
OPINION - There are valuable lessons for children watching Sesame Street for the first time, as much as it is…
October 29, 2009
MPHANDULA, Malawi (AP) -- Madonna has promised electricity to a village in Malawi, the impoverished southern African country where she…
October 23, 2009
VIDEO - A Colorado elementary school employee has been placed on leave after allegedly taping a child's wrists and mouth...
October 16, 2009
OPINION - No one wants to look in the mirror and admit that their views come from less than noble…
October 12, 2009
VIDEO - When work is done and what's left is usually fun, 10-year-old Amiya Alexander doesn't quite see it that…
October 6, 2009
VIDEO - Bonnie Brown knows what life would be like without help and without her almost 12-year-old daughter Myra...
October 6, 2009
OPINION - Living in a society where life seems to imitate media and many young people emulate what they see,…
October 5, 2009
VIDEO - A new study published in the current issue of pediatrics, indicates the prevalence of autism in children is…
October 2, 2009
OPINION - In the era of Obama and in the age of Oprah come three new potentially iconic Americans, who…
September 28, 2009
Authorities say the mother of a 14-year-old boy has been arrested after her child told police he had spent years…
September 28, 2009
New research shows that more than half a million U.S. children, every year, have bad reactions or side effects from…
September 23, 2009
OPINION - A study of more than 2,500 toddlers found that, for poor children as young as one, spanking is…