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March 3, 2011
OPINION - 'A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste' was and is a brilliant slogan for HBCUs who've historically…
March 3, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Monica Haslip departed from her corporate marketing job to teach inner-city Chicagoans the trades of art and…
March 2, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - After the glamour and glitz of recent days, it's back to the books for the chorus…
March 2, 2011
OPINION - Team owners, hungry to earn an even larger profit from their business ventures, are going to keep the…
March 2, 2011
TELEMUNDO - Arne Duncan believes that these figures could be key in figuring out the reasons behind the high drop-out…
February 24, 2011
VIDEO - Many of the parents argue the although it is important for their children to learn about the slave…
February 23, 2011
Are HBCUs still relevant? It's the recurring question that has been seen in many op-ed pieces as of late...
February 22, 2011
The city of Detroit is taking extreme measures to get out of financial melee and closing half its schools...
February 21, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Barriers often include lack of funds, fear of racism, worries about delayed graduation, and few role models…
February 21, 2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The fight over the fate of 150,000 public school students has stirred long-festering emotions in Memphis…
February 18, 2011
VIDEO - The Akron, Ohio mom spent nine days in jail for falsifying records enrolling her daughters in Fairlawn-Copley School…
February 17, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - If anyone is waiting on Superman, it may be the president...
February 17, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The newly recreated Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC) has made health one of their four key…
February 15, 2011
OPINION - Overt racist parties and incidents only bubble up when the covert racism on campus feels comfortable enough to…
February 14, 2011
Just four percent of students offered admission to seven specialized New York City public high schools were black. The percentage…
February 4, 2011
VIDEO - As Black History Month gets underway, one program in Chicago is helping to create a sense of confidence…
February 2, 2011
OPINION - Since the classroom and textbooks have been an imperfect way of educating students about African-American history, the future…
February 2, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - In 2009, with a deficit of $219 million, the Detroit Public School system was in a state…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day...
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided…