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Franchesca Ramsey (courtesy of Four Square)

theGrio's 100: Franchesca Ramsey, 'Girls Say' she is a sensation

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Baylor's Brittney Griner (42) celebrates after breaking the NCAA women's career record for blocks (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Baylor's Griner more than just a girl who can dunk

Stephen Hawkins, Associated Press
WACO, Texas (AP) — Brittney Griner arrived at Baylor known as the girl who could dunk....
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President Barack Obama greets the Olypmics-bound U.S. Women's National Basketball team after their victory over Brazil at the Verizon Center on July 16, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leslie E. Kossoff-Pool/Getty Images)

Obama makes his Final Four picks

Associated Press
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — President Barack Obama is picking Florida, Indiana, Louisville, Ohio State to reach the Final Four...
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1964: An FBI poster seeking information as to the whereabouts of Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner, Civil Rights campaigners who went missing in Mississippi. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Olen Burrage, suspect in 1964 Klan slayings, dies

Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AP) - Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960s, has died. He was 82...
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4 unsung black women you should know

Ronda Racha Penrice
ESSAY - There is no denying that each of these women played more than their part in uplifting their race and their gender...
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Yityish Aynaw recently won the title of Miss Israel. (Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)

Ethiopian Miss Israel to meet Obama

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - Ethiopian-born Miss Israel Yityish Aynaw received a special invitation to meet and dine with President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres during Obama’s upcoming trip to the Middle Eastern country...
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President Barack Obama waves as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Politics clouding Obama's coming visit to Israel

Daniel Estrin, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — A week before President Barack Obama is set to arrive in the region, Middle Eastpolitics are already casting a cloud over the visit as Israeli and Palestinian officials plan a series of events to promote their agendas.
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Waka Flocka attends Heineken Red Star Access Atlanta featuring Trey Songz, Kendrick Lamar and DJ MLK hosted by Affion Crockett at Opera Nightclub on August 26, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Moses Robinson/Getty Images for Heineken)

Waka Flocka running for president?

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT -Rapper Waka Flocka Flame has decided to extend his reach beyond music and hopes to have a bigger impact on the nation by running for the 2016 presidential election -- or so he says on Twitter...
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Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) marches with a crowd across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 1965 Bloody Sunday Voting Rights March March 4, 2007 in Selma, Alabama. During the 1965 march, which was to go from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, police used tear gas and beat back the marchers when they reached the Pettus Bridge. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

'Bloody Sunday' bridge named national landmark

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theGRIO REPORT - The location is one of 13 new sites to receive federal recognition, including the home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harrier Beecher Stowe and Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson N.J., which once served as a home-field to Negro League baseball teams...
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Bill would posthumously grant freedom to NH slaves

Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A supporter of a New Hampshire bill that would posthumously grant the request of 20 African slaves who petitioned for their freedom during the Revolutionary War says it's never too late to right a wrong...
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. Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Dorothy Cross, great niece of the first African American heavyweight boxing champion John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, Cross's daughter Constance Hines, and family friend Betsy Victoria listen as Cross's daughter Linda Haywood (3L) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill April 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. Sen. McCain and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) introduced a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon Johnson, who was a victim of what is widely regarded as a racially motivated conviction in 1913 for violating a law prohibiting taking women across state lines for 'immoral purposes'. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

There's no excuse for not pardoning Jack Johnson

David A. Love
OPINION - Now is the time for President Obama to pardon the legendary heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson...
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