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December 6, 2010
VIDEO - What started as a chance to help one student has now grown into a movement... which promises help…
December 3, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Twenty states still allow schools to administer corporal punishment and some don't require parental consent or notification...
December 1, 2010
OPINION - Next week, we're going to take a look at early education for African-Americans, from working with infants to…
November 29, 2010
Two out of three of the young people being held in juvenile detention centers in August and September in that…
November 24, 2010
VIDEO - On Tuesday, Cosby went door to door with the superintendent of New Haven, CT to encourage children to…
November 24, 2010
theGRIO VIDEO - When he's not in the studio or on tour, Grammy-award winning singer John Legend is trying to…
November 22, 2010
OPINION - The status quo is unacceptable, the comfortable need to be afflicted, and when it comes to the education…
November 19, 2010
OPINION - Our young men are an endangered breed. And the higher the level of education, the more endangered they…
November 18, 2010
VIDEO - Angry parents in the Vallejo Unified School District packed the district's office Wednesday evening to protest a plan…
November 14, 2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Blacks comprised about 12 percent of total enrollment in higher education in 2007 but were 21 percent…
November 11, 2010
OPINION - We have to read the writing on the wall -- enough is enough. Unfortunately some can't read it...
November 9, 2010
Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys...
November 8, 2010
NEW DELHI (AP) - Michelle Obama strolled with 15 schoolgirls and took turns holding each one's hand during a field…
October 28, 2010
OPINION - Today as in times past, HBCUs give the best and the brightest an education which can catapult them…
October 20, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - Over the last three years, black males have improved their graduation rate and decreased their dropout rate…
October 20, 2010
(AP) - Overall, post-secondary educational achievement has flat-lined, meaning today's young adults are no better educated than the baby-boomer generation,…
October 19, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - "The 400,000 or 500,000 African-Americans in the Delta need a place to go to school where…
October 19, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies...
October 18, 2010
For seven years, the gleaming silver letters that once proclaimed Michael Jackson Auditorium at Gardner Street Elementary School in Hollywood…
October 14, 2010
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The young men and women arrived in a chartered jet late Wednesday and were given T-shirts…