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January 28, 2016
Astronaut Ronald McNair, who died in the Challenger explosion, was born in South Carolina but eventually claimed his father’s Harlem neighborhood as
September 16, 2015
Wednesday morning Ahmed Mohamed made news after it was revealed that his North Texas high school decided that a homemade…
June 8, 2015
UPDATE:  LDSD Lifts Off!   12 minutes ago The large scientific balloon carrying Low-Density Supersonic Decelerators test vehicle lifted off
February 5, 2014
VIDEO - Mandla Maseko is set to fulfill his ambition to become the first black African to travel into space.…
January 2, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — NASA officials say the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 'should never be trivialized' in response to a…
May 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Kiera Wilmot, 16, was a high-flying student at Bartow High School until last month when she was…
May 2, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - If you visit a doctor’s office or hospital and you usually see stacks of manila folders with…
September 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Last month, Will.I.Am made history when his track 'Reach for the Stars' was the first song to…
August 29, 2012
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Will.i.am has premiered his new single — from Mars.
August 27, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.Am is set to debut his new song "Reach for the…
August 13, 2012
(AP) - Hailing NASA's 'mind-boggling' Mars landing of the Curiosity rover, President Barack Obama urged the scientists operating the craft…
July 30, 2012
OPINION - Ride's selection as the first American woman in space was a clear indicator of NASA's acknowledgement of the…
July 26, 2012
SLIDESHOW - It is important to bring attention to some of the African-American females that have, and are still, paving…
June 7, 2012
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) - About 200 people honored the first black graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at a memorial…
November 12, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Republican Herman Cain said God convinced him to enter the race for president, comparing himself to Moses:…
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, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Legendary astronaut Bernard Harris has logged close to 200 hours in space and more than 2.9 million…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Think laptops are cool? Thank Donya Douglas, an instrument systems engineer at NASA conducting temperature control research…
January 18, 2011
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr., in remarks for a Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday breakfast, said the…
September 10, 2010
The goal of the collaboration is to garner attention for NASA's Summer of Innovation, a multiweek, intensive STEM program for…