Miss. bill would force food stamp users to eat healthy
theGRIO REPORT - The proposed action of one Mississippi lawmaker has led some to believe politicians have gone too far by attempting to regulate what people eat...
'Rape' jab at Obama supporters goes too far
OPINION - There are certainly ways to disagree with Obama administration policies without ad hominem attacks on Barack Obama the man or those who chose to support him...
Modern slavery still thriving internationally
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two women from her country...
Child sacrifice a symptom of global greed
OPINION - Oh, the things that some people will do for money. Or, to put it another way, the terrible things that some with money will do to those who don't have any...
LA sheriff's alternative ways tested by abuse claims
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One investigation looks at claims that deputies discriminated against blacks and Latinos in two high-desert communities. Other allegations involve Baca's sprawling jail network...
TSA searches Dallas woman's hair for weapons
VIDEO - Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she went through security...
NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed
NEW YORK (AP) - The focus was on a list of 28 countries that, along with "American Black Muslim," were considered "ancestries of interest." Nearly all were Muslim countries...
Judge OKs lawsuit challenging NYPD stop and frisks
NEW YORK (AP) - Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan is letting proceed a lawsuit that challenges the city's policies as biased, particularly toward blacks and Hispanics...
Black Muslims should be very afraid of NYPD spying
OPINION - This is racial, ethnic and religious profiling dressed up as counter-terrorism surveillance...
With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas
NEW YORK (AP) - Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD has become one of the country's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies...
