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theGRIO Q&A – Thompson, making his second run for mayor of New York City, recently made waves by comparing George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin to New York’s controversial stop-and-frisk police policy…
theGRIO REPORT – The specter of Hillary Clinton isn’t just scaring other potential Democratic candidates from making formal moves to run in 2016, it’s scaring them from even pretending to…
ANALYSIS – President Obama increasingly sounds like a man with the freedom to say exactly what he thinks…
ANALYSIS – Obama increasingly sounds obsessed with making sure expanding the middle class, lifting Americans from stagnant wages and reducing income inequality are at the top of his agenda…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is promising not to let one election go by without protecting minority voting rights.
theGRIO REPORT – The fiery denunciation of New York Police Department’s stop and frisk tactics by New York mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, is the most obvious sign yet that the debate over racial profiling in Florida in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case could shape politics outside of the Sunshine State..
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK – The protests began in response to a slew of bills from the Republican-controlled General Assembly, many of which will adversely greatly impact minorities and the poor…
theGRIO REPORT – In an interview with the New York Times, President Obama warned that racial tensions in America might “get worse” if the divide in income between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country comes to grow…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican-backed measure that would make sweeping changes to when and how North Carolinians can vote appears headed for a court fight.
ANAYSIS – Eric Holder’s gambit to effectively overrule the U.S. Supreme Court is his boldest move yet as the administration’s point man on civil rights…
ANALYSIS – And some of these polities, particularly the health care law, will benefit middle-income Americans. But the broader economic trends that Obama criticized are much too powerful for a president to resolve himself…
theGRIO REPORT – The revelation of previously undisclosed, lurid text messages sent by New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner could dramatically shift the race and help vault the race’s only black candidate, former City Comptroller Bill Thompson…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency’s secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone records Wednesday night after a fierce debate pitting privacy rights against the government’s efforts to thwart terrorism.
theGRIO REPORT – An overwhelming number of blacks, 86 percent, were ‘dissatisfied,’ with the acquittal of George Zimmerman, compared to only 30 percent of whites, according to a Pew Research Center poll released on Monday…
ANALYSIS – President Obama spoke on Friday about racial profiling, the George Zimmerman verdict, the state of blacks in America and a whole host of other highly-contested, divisive issues-and yet managed largely not to offend anyone…
theGRIO REPORT – President Barack Obama emerged Friday to give voice to African-Americans’ reaction to last weekend’s verdict in the George Zimmerman case…
theGRIO REPORT – As a gun control bill failed to even pass in the Democratically-controlled Senate and a spate of controversies over IRS audits and other matters dominated the headlines, the White House faced criticism that Obama’s second term would accomplish little…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The former secretary of state was feted with chants of ‘Run, Hillary, Run,’ as she concluded her 30-minute remarks to nearly 14,000 members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority…
ANALYSIS – Holder, the first-ever black attorney general, has not made racial issues the sole focus of his often-embattled five years at the head of the Justice Department. …
theGRIO REPORT – Obama opted to issue a statement after the verdict to both offer support for Trayvon Martin’s family and discourage any kind of dangerous reaction to the decision…