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Cleaster Cotton theGrio.com
May 28, 2022
The artist's mixed-media works highlight the complicated history and ancestral voices in her chosen home of Asheville, North Carolina.
Mara Gay
March 12, 2020
New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay was dragged on Twitter following an #epicfail math demonstration on the air…
June 15, 2018
Jean-Marie Chanoine promised he wasn’t going to let his daughter fail. The 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, says that after watching his eldest
January 12, 2017
Introducing “True Story with Natasha Alford” a new original series on theGrio. In our first episode, we look at the
June 11, 2014
VIDEO - MSNBC’s Craig Melvin has been exploring the future of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities. In the…
November 7, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Yes, today's students are doing better than those who came before them. But the improvements have come…
June 16, 2013
ESSAY - What about a child’s shot at the pros? Quick answer: much worse. For example, the boy who wants…
February 22, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - A school principal said she's 'appalled' by a homework assignment that used scenarios about killing and…
July 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion…
January 20, 2012
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - The suburban Atlanta teacher who resigned after an investigation found students were given math homework with…
January 19, 2012
LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (AP) - A spokeswoman says a suburban Atlanta teacher has resigned after an investigation found third-grade students being…
October 24, 2011
(AP) - The answer turns out to be a complex equation of self-doubt, stereotypes, discouragement and economics -- and sometimes…
October 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - It was not until 1979 that an African-American, Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr., donned cosmonaut overalls. Three-years later,…
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - pollinating the next generation of the nation's innovators...
February 1, 2010
theGrio's 100 - Omo Moses speaks like a true activist, following in the path of the great men who share…
July 14, 2009
Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly…
June 17, 2009
I spent last Friday night at a 4th grade poetry slam. I wasn’t sure I wanted to go. As the
June 11, 2009
CHARLOTTE – A few middle school students in Charlotte, North Carolina aren’t that thrilled the school year has come to