Why Obama is still 'evolving' on gay marriage
ANALYSIS - Making an outright declaration of support for gay marriage carries risks. First, it would reinforce what many conservatives are saying about Obama...
Decline in government jobs hurts black Americans
theGRIO REPORT - Blacks have been disproportionately affected; about 20 percent of black workers are in government jobs at the state or local level.
Black unemployment dips, as US rate hits 8.1 percent
theGRIO REPORT - Black unemployment dropped a full point to 13 percent, one of the most positive signs in a jobs report released Friday that otherwise showed limited progress for the American economy...
Ex-girlfriend says young Obama 'needed to go black'
theGRIO REPORT - A new book about President Obama's early years includes interviews with past girlfriends and friends who describe his search for identity early in adulthood...
Does Occupy Wall Street matter anymore?
theGRIO REPORT - The president himself is speaking much more about the growing gap between the rich and poor in American than he did four years ago...
Obama puts Osama, women front and center in campaign
theGRIO REPORT - From student loans to women's rights, President Obama's campaign team is aggressively trying to expand the political conversation beyond simply the economy, an issue on which the president has major vulnerabilities...
Why Obama should highlight the Bin Laden killing
ANALYSIS - Both campaigns are employing the same faulty logic: everything that happens when someone is president, bad or good, is mostly because of that individual...
Deval Patrick will head to Iowa, fueling 2016 buzz
theGRIO REPORT - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the nation's only black governor, will give the keynote address at an Iowa Democratic Party dinner in June, fueling speculation that he is considering a presidential run in 2016...
Gingrich defeat shows limits of anti-Obama rhetoric
ANALYSIS - Unlike Romney, who argues the president is a good man who is simply ineffective in his job, Gingrich constantly went much further, casting Obama as opposed to religious freedom...
Supremes could reject Obama on immigration
theGRIO REPORT - The conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday sounded very skeptical of the Obama administration's argument that Arizona's 2010 immigration law is a major overreach by the state into federal power...
