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Colin Powell and Bill O'Reilly tustle over support for Obama

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theGRIO REPORT - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a testy exchange this week while debating President Barack Obama's policies...
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Colin Powell criticizes GOP's push for voter ID laws

Brittany Tom
VIDEO - On MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' yesterday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the Republican Party needs to be more inclusive when it comes to voting at the polls...
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Powell speaks out on GOP 'intolerance'

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VIDEO - Gen. Colin Powell slammed the Republican Party Sunday for what he calls a 'dark vein of intolerance' running through it, saying members of the GOP "still look down on minorities" and that the party needs to change, or it's 'going to be in trouble'...
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Allen West: The Tea Party congressman didn't just wear out his welcome with us, he also alienated voters in his own district despite spending $18 million on his re-election campaign. Apparently hurling insults at your fellow lawmakers and the president of the United States doesn't pay off.

Allen West gets votes for House speaker

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - The House of Representatives cast its votes for speaker on Thursday, and while John Boehner won his gavel back - he wasn't the only candidate to get votes...
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WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 11:  Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and co-chairman of the U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during a hearing about the Cuba trade embargo on Capitol Hill December 11, 2007 in Washington, DC. The hearing was called to discuss the "Promoting American Agricultural and Medical Exports to Cuba Act of 2007" and received testimony from witness on both sides of the 45-year-old embargo.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Colin Powell's former chief of staff: GOP 'is full of racists'

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff and a registered Republican, told MSNBC's 'The Ed Show' in an interview 'My party is full of racists'...
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Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu (R) outside the New Hampshire Statehouse after filing the necessary paperwork to be on the New Hampshire primary ballot October 24, 2011 at in Concord, New Hampshire. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

Romney surrogate: Powell endorsed Obama because he's black

Joy-Ann Reid
POLITICS -- Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu is dismissing former Secretary of State, Gen. Collin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama over Mitt Romney as being all about race...
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) waits to speak during a campaign visit to support Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the Bay of Pigs Museum and Library of the 2506 Assault Brigade in the Little Havana neighborhood on October 25, 2012 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

McCain on Powell's Obama endorsement: 'You disappoint us'

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theGRIO REPORT - Colin Powell has left John McCain embittered and angry with him for the second election in a row...
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President Barack Obama (R) meets with former Secretary of State General Colin Powell (L) in the Oval Office of the White House December 1, 2010 in Washington, DC. According to a White House media release, Obama and Powell were expected to discuss various issues including education, and the ratifying the New START Treaty. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Colin Powell endorses Obama for president again

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama in this year's election...
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Conservative newspaper columnist George Will poses on the red carpet upon arrival at a salute to FOX News Channel's Brit Hume on January 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Will on Obama lead: US can't fire a black man

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - Washington Post columnist George Will has a novel explanation for why President Barack Obama continues to lead challenger Mitt Romney in the polls: it's because Obama is black...
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Rapper Nicki Minaj, Trinidad & Tobago
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Caribbean-Americans who have made their mark

Melissa Noel
SLIDESHOW - This year marks the seventh anniversary of June being recognized as National Caribbean American Heritage Month.
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