MSNBC sees bump in ratings thanks to black viewers
theGRIO REPORT - The network announced an incredible increase in their already large number of Black viewers - a whopping 60.5% increase during the past year...
Dyson on 'Meet the Press': Address mental illness, guns
VIDEO - On 'Meet the Press' this week, Professor Michael Eric Dyson sparred with former Education Secretary Bill Bennett and conservative columnist David Brooks over whether, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, the nation's focus should be on guns...
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'...
Did Biden go too far with 'chains' line?
VIDEO - The Romney campaign won't comment on the farm bill or the devastating drought, but it raced to express outrage at the perceived racial injustice of Vice President Biden's comment that Republicans want to put people 'back in chains'...
WATCH: Nelson, Dyson debate gay marriage
theGRIO REPORT - The same sex marriage debate spilled onto the airwaves and on Twitter last Thursday, when Michael Eric Dyson, an MSNBC contributor called out "sexual rednecks"...
Obama camp focuses on black vote, targets HBCUs
theGRIO REPORT - With the 2012 campaign already underway, Obama's campaign team, Obama for America is looking to match or exceed 2008's black voter turnout. Obama For America plans to do it with a simple message and novel outreach...
Reading, writing, rap? Jay-Z inspires college course
VIDEO - The record-setting rapper and hip-hop icon has become a business tycoon and best selling author. But now Jay-Z's street rhymes are being taught at one of America's top schools...
Hov 101: Georgetown course covers Jay-Z
theGRIO REPORT - Hip-hop has become more than rap music and videos, it has become a culture; a way of life. It's become a platform for African -American growth and expansion and Jay-Z made the 'blueprint'...
Michael Eric Dyson gives Obama 'C-minus' on black issues
VIDEO - In an interview on MSNBC, Dyson took Obama to task for what he perceives as the president's failure to sufficiently address black joblessness...
Dyson and Bernard debate Obama's lack of a 'black agenda'
VIDEO - PBS host Tavis Smiley held a public meeting with black leaders and activists in Chicago calling on Obama to embrace policies specifically for African-Americans...
