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February 22, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Duerson died Thursday in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. The Miami-Dade medical examiner ruled the death a…
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
TheGrio's 100 - The National Science Foundation keeps American colleges and universities on the cutting edge of technology, funding 20…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - As president of Intellectual Ventures, a company that invests in inventors, Adriane Brown is in the business…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - This Nigerian-American professor at California Institute of Technology is making waves with his research on jellyfish locomotion…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - In the face of looming budget cuts and daunting drop-out rates, Tamica Stubbs inspired her underprivileged Charlotte,…
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 - As CEO of Green for All, Ellis-Lamkins organizes minority and disadvantaged communities to unite and advocate for…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Physicist Njema Frazier develops the codes for weapons simulations, creating computer models to test the hypothetical safety,…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - As an outspoken activist for Gulf Coast residents, Monique Harden has gained a reputation as the first…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Faye Alexander Nelson has spent the last eight years turning a strip of Detroit, once an industrial…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Think laptops are cool? Thank Donya Douglas, an instrument systems engineer at NASA conducting temperature control research…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Neuroscientists have long sought physical evidence of memory, and Fenton and his fellow researches at NYU have…
December 9, 2010
On Monday, The Commission released its annual briefing report on The Educational Effectiveness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)...
July 16, 2010
David H. Blackwell's analysis of bluffing as a poker strategy, as well as his research on dueling helped establish him…
June 17, 2010
VIDEO - Scientists say men don't have to cheat, but they do have to work harder at staying faithful....
April 16, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Spelman College will use a $1 million grant to increase the number of engineers who are black…
March 29, 2010
SLIDESHOW - From caregivers and laborers to CEOs and scientists, black women have held pivotal leadership roles in building America…
March 18, 2010
REVIEW - The cells of a poor black woman from Clover, Virginia, a descendant of free slaves, led to major…
February 26, 2010
OPINION - So what's on Jones' mind these days? Everything from the meaning of the NAACP Image award to the…