How American music has been Africanized
OPINION - In North America, music has been one of the sanctuaries that has allowed for the deepest expression of West African standards of aesthetics...
Why the black church must get real on HIV/AIDS
theGRIO REPORT - Before HIV and AIDS can be dealt with, something first has to be done about what one religious leader and advocate calls 'CIV.'....
Fox on Obama’s b'day: ‘Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs’
The report, which aggregated a Politico story, goes on to detail the menu, guests and R&B, jazz, hip-hop and Motown performances at the event....
Ramadan has a special meaning for black Muslims
VOICE OF AMERICA - As the month of Ramadan begins, many millions of Muslims around the world are joining in a collective fast intended to help purify their souls...
Holy swingers! Dallas sex club poses as a church
DALLAS - The city says a man who claims his after-hours dance club is a church also operates a swingers club on a property licensed for a place of worship...
Are men missing from the black church?
theGRIO REPORT - At least one man thinks so. So much so that he is working to build as much support as possible to 'bring black men back to the church.'...
Mass. man jailed after plan to burn black churches
theGRIO REPORT - Jeffrey Smith, 46, has been sentenced to 15-months in prison after sending letters threatening to burn black churches and NAACP offices in three states...
Rick Perry's racially insensitive pastor problem
OPINION - Governor Perry's pastor problem begs a comparison with Obama's troubles with Rev. Jeremiah Wright...
Son allegedly beat by mother for missing church
VIDEO - Police were called to a Georgia home on Saturday morning by a seventeen year old boy whose mother would not stop beating him with a belt...
NY fire commissioner recruits at black church
WEB RUNDOWN - With a protracted racial discrimination lawsuit looming over the Fire Department, Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano went to a black church...
