Rapper Rhymefest could be on Chicago City Council
CHICAGO (AP) - Rhymefest paints himself as an alternative to business as usual for the 20th Ward, which includes some of the poorest and highest-crime areas of Chicago...
Low income blacks biggest victims of GOP budget cuts
OPINION - We cannot afford a fiscal policy that sacrifices the resources vital to the survival of low-income people and people of color...
Deep layoffs take effect in struggling NJ city
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - More than half of Camden's 80,000 residents, mostly black and Hispanic, live in poverty...
US Census: Number of poor may be millions higher
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, government aid programs such as tax credits and food stamps kept many people out of poverty...
Why blacks may be biggest victims of climate change
theGRIO REPORT - The problems urban areas already face, like pollution, over-development, and inadequate infrastructure, could exacerbate climate change's effects...
Haiti candidates add cholera to list of problems
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) - The rapidly spreading disease is even infecting the presidential campaign, with candidates trying both to protect themselves and prevent fear of cholera...
New black GOP Rep: Capitalism cure for poverty
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina state Rep. Tim Scott, elected this week as one of the nation's first black GOP congressmen in years, says conservatives need to sell capitalism...
In Haiti, cholera could heighten earthquake misery
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - If efforts to keep cholera out of the camps fail, "The worst case would be that we have hundreds of thousands of people getting sick"...
163 Haitian students receive free housing in Senegal
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The young men and women arrived in a chartered jet late Wednesday and were given T-shirts to wear that said: "Thank You President Abdoulaye Wade."...
Five reasons why Obama should raise taxes on the rich
OPINON - President Obama must dig in hard on this one. The breaks must go, and the reasons why aren't hard to find...
