The Tuskegee Airmen. PHOTO/File This week’s most noteworthy film screening didn’t take place in Hollywood or Beverly Hills. Instead of starlets gliding past photographers on a...
African American school children. PHOTO/Courtesy NewsOne.com The educational system in the United States is largely broken. For the vast majority of African American students, the system...
By: Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Cornel West wrote in 1985 that the black intellectual was “caught between an insolent American society and an insouciant black community.” Twenty-seven years...
African American women soldiers salute while the national anthem is played at the U.S. Camp Eggers in Kabul, Afghanistan./AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus Black women are enlisting in...
The U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half years as employers stepped up hiring in response...
Assuring military veterans that “America has your back,” first lady Michelle Obama (pictured), announced commitments from companies Thursday to hire 100,000 veterans and military spouses by...
Since the inception of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City on Sept. 17, the effort has spread across the globe. However, while people...
As congress scrutinizes President Obama’s US$447 million jobs plan, RLJ Companies CEO Robert Johnson (pictured), is pushing a proposal that he says marshals the capacity of...
The African-American population is, today, the largest racial minority group in America, with a population of close to 43 million. This market segment’s growth rate continues...
Oprah Winfrey (pictured) is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. Winfrey, earned US$290 million between May 2010 to May 2011. The businesswoman and...
Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson is the first African American woman to be promoted to a two star general in the U.S. Army. (Photo: Courtesy US Government)...
The March 2010 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sited startling high levels of the genital herpes virus among African American women...
“In the Hive” is the latest film from veteran writer, producer and director Robert Townsend (pictured), and it that tells the true story of Vivian Sanders,...
Several novice African American farmers are harvesting their first crops, including okra, black eyed peas and cucumbers, on a demonstration farm in Fresno, California. The 15-acre...
The lack of support networks has been identified as a critical aspect to involving more African Americans in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math....
The number of African-Americans living under the poverty line, which is $11,139 for an individual in 2010, rose to 10.7 million, up 1.6 percent. In all,...
CLUTCH - Tyler Perry has been named Hollywood's highest earner this past year (May 2010-May 2011 to be exact) by Forbes magazine...
California Watch - The figures show that white students here also receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarship funding...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Executive Architect Ed Jackson Jr. told The Associated Press on Sunday that the memorial will now be dedicated Oct. 16. A formal announcement...
The pregnancy rate of African American teenage girls has dropped 44% over the last two decades, the teen birth rate 47%. Over that same period, both...
What should a person expect from a news rag such as this? Well … I come not to make speeches, salutations; pledges or promises – but...
theGRIO REPORT - Parents and students who decide to leave traditional schools behind find common benefits, and support in each other...
A study published today in Science may shed new light on why African American scientists are so rare in biomedical research, and raises troubling questions about...
theGRIO REPORT - On Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus takes its "For the People" Jobs Initiative to Atlanta, Georgia hosting a job fair and town hall.
OPINION - Too often, the discussion about the economy is led by people in Washington -- legislators, political figureheads, economists...
I wasn't necessarily in love with my major department at my undergraduate institution, though I had some fairly decent professors. Then came the semester I took...
The black women who were maids in the American South before the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's became the mothers and grandmothers of today's doctors,...
The answer is that the Urban League is utterly dependent on the generosity of corporate donors, and Bill Gates is potentially among the biggest...
theGRIO REPORT - Adults of African descent can have genetic testing performed for free, starting this month, as part of a national project called Roots into...
VIDEO - This change could be the difference between life and death for young African American dialysis patients...
ATLANTA (AP) - Hundreds turned out Saturday for the Atlanta funeral of the Rev. Creecy, a third-generation Baptist preacher...
Street literature, officially recognized as urban fiction, has evolved into a permanent part of American literature. With the success of street literature, many African-American authors have...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring picked up slightly in the U.S. in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst...
OPINION - Employment advocates maintain that unemployment discrimination could be illegal if there is a disparate impact on groups such as blacks, Latinos, women and the...
This is so random, but interesting nonetheless!
OPINION - The optimism of 'Yes We Can' and 'Change We Can Believe In' has turned into the pessimism of 'if not now when' and 'if...
theGRIO REPORT - There are some within the black community that are believed and continuously passed down. Read to see of these six are fact and...
Based on the racial divide in the economic gap, a lot has to be done to rebuild our buying power We have fallen to the back...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The NAACP's president is urging South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that flies near her Statehouse office...
The wealth gap in the United States has grown wider in the wake of the Great Recession, with black and Hispanic American households faring much worse...
18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly is suing her McGehee, Arkansas public high school for barring her from being valedictorian because of her race...
Thirty-six recruits will enter the city's police academy today. Marlin Avant is the only one who is black...
Rupert Murdoch has apologized for everything, but admitted responsibility for nothing. The 80-year-old multi-billionaire and Chairman of News Corp. International, appeared before a special investigations committee...
One of my favorite African-American Studies professors, who held a doctorate in Africana Studies, used to ask the same question: Why do so many of the...
The GOP's war over America's debt ceiling is not about America's debt, it's about President Obama...
The Congressional Black Caucus publicly accused the Obama administration of failing to adequately address a veritable epidemic of African American unemployment...
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - Darryl James Swanson has appeared in federal court to face charges that he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the president's...
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America -- except in the state of Mississippi...
OPINION - By publicizing and advertising what had happened to them, these African-American celebrities have provided a public service...
A lot of politicians do a whole lot of talking, but who should be held accountable on the Black unemployment crisis?
NEW YORK (AP) - The inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have been steadily draining of black children...
Brazile writes that her sister in Florida was a victim of voter suppression during the 2000 election...
(AP) - Two of Terrell Owens' former teammates say the star wide receiver plans to return to the NFL despite recent surgery to repair a torn...
ATLANTA (AP) - About 100 presidents of historically black colleges are meeting to discuss their role in the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Many Americans changed their perceptions of discrimination and racism after Barack Obama became the nation's first black president...
Hopefully something good will come of this.
