theGrio

Back to the Top

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • Entertainment
    • Music
    • The Dish
  • Health
    • Ask Dr. Ty
    • Black Men’s Health
    • Black Women and Breast Cancer
    • Back to School Health
  • Living
    • Travel and Leisure
    • Living Forward
    • Books
  • Politics
    • Perry on Politics
  • Sports
  • News
    • Good News
  • Opinion

Africa

Uganda-newspaper-16x9.jpg

Official: Uganda to pass anti-gay bill this year

Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Uganda's anti-gay bill will be passed before the end of 2012 despite international criticism of the draft legislation...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
In this Sunday, April 29, 2012 file photo, troops from the Central African Republic stand guard at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, in Obo, Central African Republic, where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The U.S.-based Enough Project advocacy group said in a report released Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 that the hunt for the African warlord Joseph Kony is hopeless without more troops and urges American forces to "play a more operational role" on the ground. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Group: US troops should actively hunt for Kony

Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The hunt for the African warlord Joseph Kony is hopeless without more troops, an advocacy group said Friday, urging American forces to "play a more operational role" in the vast Central Africa jungle...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, waves her walking cane towards supporters in celebration before speaking to the media about her reaction to Obama's re-election in the U.S. presidential election in the garden of her house in the village of Kogelo, western Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Granny Obama, Kenya celebrate White House win

Josphat Kasire and Tom Odula, Associated Press
KOGELO, Kenya (AP) - Waving her walking cane and smiling broadly, the step-grandmother of Barack Obama celebrated Wednesday as this tiny Western Kenyan village danced and rejoiced after the United States president won four more years in the White House...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
Muslim students pose before a throng of photographers shortly after "voting" in the mock U.S. election at a shopping mall at suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Filipinos participated in a mock U.S. elections between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney which was organized by the U.S. Embassy in Manila. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Global candidate: Obama was world's clear choice

Gregory Katz, Associated Press
LONDON (AP) - He won, and the word 'phew' trended worldwide on Twitter. Despite a hard-fought campaign in the United States, there was never any contest overseas...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
Kenyan witch-doctor John Dimo, who claims to be 105 years old, interprets the result after throwing shells, bones, and other magic items to predict the outcome of the U.S. election, in front of his hut in the village of Kogelo, from where President Barack Obama's late father came and whom Dimo claims he knew, in western Kenya Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Obama favored in his ancestral Kenyan village

Associated Press
KOGELO, Kenya (AP) - Here in President Barack Obama's ancestral village in Kenya, witch doctor John Dimo tossed some shells, bones and other items to determine who will win Tuesday's election...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
(Courtesy of Fotolia)

West African man convicted of keeping 4 boys as slaves

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - A federal jury convicted a former janitor at the University of Michigan of enslaving and abusing four West African boys on Tuesday...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
U.S. Tennis player Serena Williams, right, in action as she plays tennis with a school child, during a clinic session in Lagos, Nigeria. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. Tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams say they eagerly await playing in the 2016 Olympics after their third doubles gold this year. The two sisters made the comments Wednesday in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, during their first visit to the country. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Williams sisters inspire Nigerian kids

Jon Grambell, Associated Press
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - On their first visit to Nigeria, Serena and Venus Williams want to inspire local kids to set their goals high...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
South African photographer, Alf Kumalo, stands outside court in Johannesburg. Kumalo, whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid, died of renal failure in Johannesburg, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. He was 82. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

South African photographer who depicted apartheid dies

Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, died of renal failure in a Johannesburg hospital on Sunday night, the ruling party said Monday....
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
A man takes a call on the balcony of Kalakuta Museum in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. The family of late Afrobeat singer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti celebrated the opening of the Kalakuta Museum on Monday in Lagos in the home the musician once lived in. The opening of the museum comes during Felabration, an annual music festival honoring the singer. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)

New Nigeria museum honors late Afrobeat singer Fela Kuti

Chika Oduah
theGRIO REPORT - Kingston, Jamaica has the Bob Marley Museum. Memphis, Tennessee has Elvis Presley’s Graceland. For the first time ever, fans of the Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti can visit the Kalakuta Museum in Lagos, Nigeria...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
President Barack Obama talks with Jon Stewart during a taping of his appearance on "The Daily Show with John Stewart", Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: No confusion over response to Libya attack

Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama is pushing back against critics who say there was confusion within his administration following the deadly attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Libya...
Read More | Leave CommentComments (-)
  • Page 8 of 39
  • <
  • 1
  • ...
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • ...
  • 39
  • >
  • Learn about our User Panel

    Read More
  • See What Your Friends Are Reading

  • More from theGrio

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Politics
  • Living
  • Video
  • Inspire
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • News
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise with TheGrio
  • About
©2013 NBCUniversal
Powered by WordPress.com VIP