theGrio

TheGrio's 100: John Jackson, bridging education's racial divide

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - John Jackson was twelve years old when he moved from Chicago to the suburbs and saw a difference not only in his environment, but in his education...

more

TheGrio's 100: Roland Fryer, translating education into money

By Myranda Stephens

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Roland Fryer "Beat the odds", but don't tell him that. This former hustler turned Harvard professor now helps change the odds for poor and minority kids...

more

TheGrio's 100: Freeman A. Hrabowski III, university president and educational trailblazer

By Myranda Stephens

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

TheGrio's 100 - Hrabowski looks like a proud papa scurrying around his office showing off pictures of kids he nurtured...

more

TheGrio's 100: Omo Moses, equating things for next generation

By Myranda Stephens

5:00 AM on 02/01/2010

theGrio's 100 - Omo Moses speaks like a true activist, following in the path of the great men who share his name...

more

Black woman is the highest paid college president

By theGrio

8:53 AM on 11/02/2009

(AP) - Topping the list of the nation's highest-paid university presidents is Shirley Ann Jackson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., whose total compensation is pegged at nearly $1.6 million...

more

Hypocrisy reigns for critics of the first non-black Miss Hampton U

By David A. Love

9:00 AM on 10/14/2009

OPINION - The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the historically-black institution...

more

Civil rights icon fights for school that tried to shut her out

By theGrio

1:19 PM on 10/05/2009

In 1960, Ruby Bridges was only 6 when she walked passed an angry mob to become the first black student at William Frantz, an all white school in New Orleans. Now, Ruby is working to reopen the doors that once threatened to shut her out...

more

School to be named after the nation's first black priest

By theGrio

9:02 AM on 10/05/2009

Columbia's first Catholic high school will be named after the nation's first known black priest. The Rev. Augustine Tolton was born into slavery in Ralls County in 1854...

more

Why it's time to talk about our children

By Michelle Bernard

9:55 AM on 09/20/2009

OPINION -- Fifty-four years ago, the late Thurgood Marshall via the Brown v. Board of Education decision, affirmed one of the core principals upon which this society is based: equality...

more

HBCUs are still vital to American education

By Lyneka Little

8:00 AM on 09/01/2009

OPINION - HBCUs are not just relevant, they are a necessary tool of educational obtainment for some black, and even white, students...

more

Morris Brown president speaks out on battle for HBCUs

By Doug Stoddart

7:57 AM on 09/01/2009

VIDEO - For more than a century, historically black colleges and universities -- HBCUs -- have focused on educating the nation's African-Americans, who were once barred from attending school with whites...

more

Unlikely transcribers at Confederate museum

By theGrio via AP

3:05 PM on 08/06/2009

When Ariel Brown was offered a chance to transcribe the correspondence of the first family of the Confederacy, the history major with a keen interest in the South seized the opportunity. Then the student from historically black North Carolina Central University in Durham let her colleagues know she would be doing her research at The Museum of the Confederacy.

more

theGrio Reflects: What it took to integrate Central High School

By theGrio

10:50 AM on 07/13/2009

In 1957, the campus of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, became a battleground in the fight for school desegregation. Crowds greeted nine black students, six girls and three boys, to school in September with chants of, "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate!" These students became...

more

Lost class reunites 50 years after integration battle

By theGrio

10:34 PM on 07/12/2009

In Arkansas Sataurday, it was a memorable reunion for a senior class that didnt exist. Classmates from the Horace Mann high school class of 1959 gathered to celebrate the their 50th reunion. Their class motto was appropriately called "the class that should have been"...

more

theGrio Reflects: The Civil Rights Act signed 45 years ago

By theGrio

7:03 PM on 07/02/2009

July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the company of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists. Today President Obama released this statement to commemorate the legislation: Forty-five years ago today, President Johnson signed into law historic legislation that moved America closer...

more

theGrio Reflects: The origins of "40 acres and a mule"

By theGrio

1:40 PM on 06/25/2009

On the eve of Juneteenth, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery. The gesture sparked lots of debate about reparations. TheGrio reflects on the original intent of the post-slavery proposal popularly known as "40 acres and a mule". Archival video provided by NBC Learn, the education arm of...

more

theGrio reflects: June 11, 1963 University of Alabama integration standoff (video)

By theGrio

12:50 PM on 06/07/2009

theGrio reflects on the battle for desegregation on June 11, 1963 with icue.com. Forty six years ago, this week, Governor Wallace attempted to stop two African American students from entering the University of Alabama. This is what happened as Nicholas Katzenbach, accompanied by two federal marshals, left their car and...

more