Black History

TheGrio's 100 - Can an African-American become the next Governor of Alabama? Once unthinkable in a state infamous for its history of segregation, U.S. Representative Artur Davis wants to break through in 2010...

SLIDESHOW - In honor of Nelson Mandela's 92nd birthday, theGrio invites you on an emotional journey through seven decades of his political activism and personal crisis...

SLIDESHOW - theGrio has compiled a list of our favorite MJ tracks that have managed to float under the radar for years...

NEW YORK (AP) - Jones, whose 70-year career included a stint as Ella Fitzgerald's pianist and Marilyn Monroe's accompanist when she sang "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy, has died...

SLIDESHOW - It should come as little surprise names like Jordan, Chamberlain, Magic and Ewing headline this list...

TheGrio's 100 - Contemporary media has caught up to Roland S. Martin, not the other way around...

TheGrio's 100 - Taylor is an author, inspirational speaker, and real estate expert; a whiz kid who made some of his first money building video games...

TheGrio's 100 - Charles Bolden is the first African-American head of NASA...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The private boarding school for underprivileged students now led by Autumn Adkins, who describes herself simply as "a black girl from Richmond, Virginia," would have excluded her in years past...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, arrived in the Oval Office for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January...