The big irony in the IRS 'scandal'
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups...
Where was the outrage over IRS' NAACP audit?
OPINION - Where was the outrage when the IRS audited the NAACP in 2004?...
Will GOP opposition stop Mel Watt's confirmation?
theGRIO REPORT - Watt’s nomination still has to be approved by the Senate. When I spoke with him the day after his White House appearance with the president, he was ready...
Obama still has 'juice' in his 2nd term
ANALYSIS - When ABC News' Jonathan Karl asked President Obama this week at a press conference if Obama had 'the juice' to get his agenda through the Congress, the president bristled and argued he was still relevant...
What Anthony Foxx's Cabinet promotion means
theGRIO REPORT - When Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx said that he would not run for the third term he was almost guaranteed to win easily, most folks in town figured something big was in his future...
Anthony Foxx: 'No such thing as a Democratic or Republican road'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Monday tapped rising Democratic politician Anthony Foxx to lead the Department of Transportation, an agency at the center of Washington's fiscal fights...
What do Bush and Obama have in common?
OPINION - George W. Bush and Barack Obama, neither of whom was considered an ideologue before they entered office, have presided over the most politically divisive time in modern American history...
Obama plans executive action on guns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Barack Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons...
Obamacare: Thousands of blacks may not benefit
theGRIO REPORT - Republicans in seven of the ten states in the country with the highest percentage of African-Americans have declared they won't participate in the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act...
Jack Johnson's family wants pardon
HOUSTON (AP) - Relatives and hometown supporters of boxing's first black heavyweight champion are turning to YouTube to convince the President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon him of a 1913 conviction for accompanying a white woman across state lines...
