Will Anthony Weiner woo black voters in NYC?
OPINION - Weiner’s choice of kickoff location reveals a great deal about New York’s minefield of racial and ethnic politics – and serves as a reminder of Weiner’s past missteps...
GOP's 'mad men' won't woo black voters
OPINION - Recently, the GOP has seized on potential African-American conservative stars like famed Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Ben Carson, only to have them go up in a ball of rhetorical flames...
In a first, black voter turnout rate passes whites
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time...
Obama 2012 coalition ignored on gun control
theGRIO REPORT - Despite very strong support from Democratic voters, bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines aren't even included in the main gun control bill the Democratically-controlled Senate is considering..
In New Orleans, political brawl over police, jail
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A political brawl has broken out between the mayor and a sheriff who runs the city jail, which has come under scrutiny for a video showing inmates using drugs, drinking beer and handling a gun...
CPAC ‘trump the race card’ event goes wrong
theGRIO REPORT - A 'tea party' group on Friday held a session at the CPAC that was supposed to teach attendees how to persuade black voters, that instead turned into a shouting match.
RNC chair seeks African-American 'hearts and minds'
OPINION - Reinhold Reince Priebus embarked on an African-American "listening tour" in Brooklyn, New York, Monday, and the results were simply platitudinous...
Why we still need the Voting Rights Act
OPINION - I will never forget watching President Obama unveil the statue of one of my personal heroes in Statuary Hall last week – allowing civil rights icon Rosa Parks to take her rightful place in our nation’s Capitol...
Black pride shouldn’t silence dissent on drones
OPINION - Our community's near solidarity in support of the president is probably only exceeded by our collective disdain for injustice; which is why the news of the Obama Administration’s drone policy made me stop and think...
NAACP slams Virginia plan to split electoral vote
theGRIO REPORT - Since Virginia serves as a crucial and hard-fought swing state, with a growing and influential minority voting population, the move is being greeting with considerable apprehension...
