Columbia University seeks to change whites-only fellowship
NBC Latino — Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa...
Tone Loc collapses on stage in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Loc, whose real name is Anthony T. Smith, collapsed after finishing a song during a Saturday night concert on a bridge in downtown Des Moines...
theGrio’s 100: Gabby Douglas, gold medalist with an Olympic-sized smile
theGRIO's 100 - For many, watching gymnast Gabby Douglas lead her team to gold and then earning individual all-around gold was the highlight of the 2012 Olympics Games in London...
Steve King candidacy in Iowa: A blessing in disguise for Obama?
OPINION - Steve King is the poster boy for over the top, racially tinged rhetoric in his attacks on President Barack Obama...
Obama's final pitch: 'It's out of my hands now'
VIDEO - For the final campaign event of the 2012 cycle, President Barack Obama returned to where his bid for presidency began...
Anti-Obama mailer: 'We are no longer a Christian nation'
theGRIO REPORT - The pamphlet, paid for by the advocacy group Citizen Link, does not claim to support Mitt Romney, but it is aimed at the strongly Christian residents of Iowa...
GOP rep already stingy on Sandy recovery funds
theGRIO REPORT - Republican Iowa Representative Steve King has said he doesn't want to sign off on federal Hurricane Sandy disaster relief unless a specific plan on how the money will be spent is set in place.
Trial in 1977 killing asks: Were suspects framed?
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer hope to prove something they couldn't during trials that sent them to prison for 25 years...
Polls: Obama holds his lead in Iowa, Wisconsin
NBC NEWS - With fewer than three weeks until Election Day, new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls show President Barack Obama maintaining his lead over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin...
Romney cuts into Obama's early voter advantage
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney's campaign is working hard to chip away at President Barack Obama's advantage among early voters, and there are signs the effort is paying off in North Carolina and Florida...
