5 questions for Newsweek on 'Hit the Road, Barack'
OPINION - There's certainly nothing wrong with Newsweek fielding an op-ed from one of its conservative columnists. The problem comes when they put it on the cover without a good read-through...
In defense of Touré'
OPINION - Touré’s blunt assessment of Romney’s 'ni**erization' of Obama, and the sanctimonious outrage it triggered, illustrated a disturbing trend in American politics...
Gwen Ifill is 'livid' over debate snub
theGRIO REPORT - A growing chorus of critics is decrying the Commission of Presidential Debates' decision to not include a single journalist of color among the presidential (and vice presidential) debate moderators this year...
Why are all the presidential debate moderators white?
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced this year's group of presidential debate moderators, and they are all white...
Sean Hannity has a record of taking sides in racial cases
theGRIO REPORT - This is not the first time that Hannity has come to the defense of people accused of racially insensitive brutality such as Zimmerman...
Britain's largest black newspaper gains access to Olympics
theGRIO REPORT - The British Olympic Association has reversed its decision not to give The Voice newspaper accreditation to Olympic stadium...
Pulitzer-winning columnist dead at 76
WASHINGTON (AP) - William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 76...
UK's largest black paper barred from Olympics
theGRIO REPORT - Black Britons have expressed outrage that Britain's longest severing and biggest black newspaper, The Voice, has been denied accreditation to the Olympic Stadium...
'Yes, I use the n-word'
OPINION - I have no real logic behind using the word, but for whatever reason, I'm given somewhat of a pass by society because I'm black...
I am a victim of the 'right wing noise machine'
OPINION - As soon as the words escaped my lips, live on national television, I suspected I might have a problem...
