10 states raise minimum wage in 2013
theGRIO REPORT - African-Americans make up about 15.1 percent of the 73.9 million minimum wage earners in America...
African-American voters look to leverage their loyalty
WASHINGTON (AP) - When black U.S. voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of predictions that they might sit it out this year, black leaders breathed a collective sigh of relief...
Evidence questioned in Missouri child rape case
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - The crime was brutal: a 7-year-old girl choked, raped and forced to smoke drugs before she was left for dead in a fire set by her attacker. Somehow, she survived. Firefighters founder her at dawn, stumbling through the street and wearing just one shoe...
St. Louis reportedly affected by secret military experiments
theGRIO REPORT - Claims have surfaced that during the 1950s and the 1960s the United States military conducted secret experiments on St. Louis residents, which may have exposed them to radioactive compounds, KSDK reported...
Ryan says Obama undercuts welfare reform law
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says President Barack Obama wants to ease work requirements for welfare recipients even though that claim has been largely debunked by independent fact checkers...
Obama: Akin 'somehow missed science class'
NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama is mocking Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri for his remarks about a woman's body being able to avoid pregnancy during what Akin called a 'legitimate rape'...
Why Todd Akin is so important
ANALYSIS - The controversy involving the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri, Rep. Todd Akin, is so critical not just because of his inflammatory remarks, but because control of the Senate could be determined...
Akin reiterates plan to go on with Missouri Senate bid
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Rep. Todd Akin has reiterated his intention to stay in the Missouri Senate race after making comments that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of 'legitimate rape'...
Republicans struggle with 'legitimate rape' fallout
FIRST READ - How is the GOP on the verge of losing a very winnable Senate race if Akin remains in it?
How 'legitimate rape' controversy could hurt GOP
theGRIO REPORT - Issues that particularly relate to gender are dangerous grounds for Republicans. One of the key blocks that will decide who wins this election are white women...
