Cornel West criticizes Obama's use of MLK Bible at inauguration
theGRIO REPORT - West is lashing out at Obama for using a restored Bible which once belonged to the late Martin Luther King Jr. during his inauguration ceremonies this week...
People we'd like to leave behind in 2012
SLIDESHOW - We must not forget the figures which made the past year most unpleasant, even though we'd like to...
Why we can't keep hope alive for Jesse Jackson
OPINION - Ethics scandals, personal failings and a political rise cut short threaten to cloud the Jackson family legacy...
Will Obama's black critics grow louder in new term?
OPINION - With President Obama now headed for a second term in the White House—after laying the campaign of GOP opponent Mitt Romney to waste —his critics in the black community are likely to stick around...
Cornel West calls Obama a ‘Republican in blackface’
theGRIO REPORT - West calls Obama a 'Rockefeller Republican in blackface'" and said Dyson, Harris-Perry and Sharpton were all 'for sale'...
On facing two years in jail for protesting stop-and-frisk
OPINION - In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window onto the daily plight of thousands, the very people who put their bodies on the line to put this issue into the spotlight are prosecuted and threatened with incarceration...
Obama's not 'president of black America'
OPINION - The idea that the nation’s first black president is not the representative of all black people should not surprise anyone...
WATCH: 'Fear of a Black Republican' trailer
VIDEO - The result is a film critical of both sides of the bipartisan system of democracy here in the United States and their interaction with the black communities around the country....
Cornel West, activists found guilty of disorderly conduct
NEW YORK (AP) - A Manhattan judge convicted all the defendants in one of the biggest political protest group trials in the city in recent years...
West: Obama a 'disastrous response' to 'catastrophe'
Cornel West says, 'Mitt Romney is a catastrophic response to a catastrophe, whereas Obama is a disastrous response to a catastrophe'...
