Jeremiah Wright's daughter indicted for fraud, money laundering

John O'Connor, NBC Chicago

NBC Chicago - A widening federal investigation into the alleged misuse of a $1.25 million state grant led Wednesday to the indictment of the daughter the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the contentious former pastor of President Barack Obama...

Conservatives highlight Obama 2007 speech at Hampton

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - Fox News, the Daily Caller and other conservative outlets are trumpeting a June 2007 speech President Obama gave at Hampton University, arguing the 'racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups'...

Has Mitt Romney been 'vetted' like Obama?

James Braxton Peterson

OPINION - If in 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama had refused to release his tax returns, we would not currently be in a run-up to President Obama’s re-election because there would not be a President Obama...

Jeremiah Wright: Elite universities infecting blacks with 'white racist DNA'

Similoluwa Ojurongbe

theGRIO REPORT - At the Baptist Church on Florida Avenue, Wright addressed the congregation during their 100th anniversary this week with a fiery sermon that lasted almost an hour. He urged them not cede their education to 'our enemies'...

Biography recounts Obama's path to Rev. Wright

theGrio

WASHINGTON (AP) - A new biography that traces Barack Obama's path from birth to Harvard Law School sketches the pragmatism and politics of the future president's early choices, including his first connections to the inflammatory preacher whom Obama cut ties with during his 2008 presidential campaign...

What are Booker's ties to big money?

Vivian Glover

theGRIO REPORT - Officials in Newark, who knew Cory Booker, before he became a regular headline maker weren't surprised that the mayor had delivered another controversial statement...