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February 26, 2020
The 34th Annual BEYA experience held in Washington, D.C. is a way for companies to recognize some of their best…
Katherine Johnson
February 24, 2020
NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA's early space missions, has died at 101 years old.
February 1, 2020
The Southern University and A&M College has launched its own hemp-derived CBD product line, ALAFIA and claims its the first…
July 11, 2019
Dr. Monifa Phillips became the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in physics from the University of Glasgow in…
April 13, 2019
Royston Maxwell Lyttle, principal of Eagle Academy in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., said it's the little things…
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
Katherine Johnson NASA thegrio.com
June 5, 2018
Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped astronauts return to Earth, is being honored at her alma mater with…
Mae Jemison
May 24, 2018
Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space got a chance to have an emotional reunion with a man whose…
NASA black girls contest thegrio.com
May 3, 2018
Recently, three Black girls from D.C.’s Benjamin Banneker Academic High School entered the NASA Goddard‘s Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC) student…
Hustle House SXSW thegrio.com
March 13, 2018
"Hustle House was made to encourage people of color to host their own spaces within SXSW given that our dollars,…
February 27, 2018
Top stories for February 27, 2018 include Stacey Dash running for Congress, Jay-Z co-producing a Trayvon Martin documentary series, Disney…
Letitia Wright
February 27, 2018
Disney is giving back to the community with a substantial donation to STEM education, following the record-breaking success of Black Panther.…
May 24, 2017
Decades ago, before being shouted out by Chris Rock at the Oscars, Odyssey Media founder and CEO Linda Spradley Dunn
March 23, 2017
Google announced a new program partnered with Howard University in an effort to recruit more young minds from Historically Black…
February 24, 2017
I moved to the U.S. from Trinidad when I was two years old. Once we were settled in Brooklyn, my
January 12, 2017
Introducing “True Story with Natasha Alford” a new original series on theGrio. In our first episode, we look at the
January 9, 2017
Like most award-nominated films, Hidden Figures was a must-see during its opening weekend. Based on true events and Margot Lee
May 9, 2016
A team of Cleveland teens just won the FIRST Robotics World Championship, in a championship competition that included 20,000 students…
February 28, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching a version of “take your child to work day” that’s focused on
June 9, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Berkeley High School were upset when they got their yearbooks only to find that someone had changed…