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Race

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Cheerios commercial featuring interracial couple receives racist backlash

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - A new Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple and their child was forced to shut off its comments section on YouTube earlier today due to a large amount of racist comments..
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Is diversity in top professions taking a nosedive?

David A. Love
OPINION - Despite the progress America has made in diversifying its workforce and its management ranks, the country is backsliding...
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Memphis

What my white neighbor taught me in Memphis

Dr. Darron Smith
OPINION - In a casual conversation in what was meant to welcome me to my new city, a white neighbor uncomfortably reminded of me the racial challenges that remain very much intact in the South...
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Opponents of the New York Police Department’s controversial 'stop-and-frisk' policy rally on January 27, 2012 in the Bronx borough of New York City. The NYPD says the stops assist crime prevention while opponents say they involve racial profiling and civil rights abuses. According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, during the first nine months of 2011 514,461 city residents were stopped by the NYPD. 451,469 were innocent (88 percent), while 54 percent were black, 31 percent Latino and 9 percent white. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Stop and Frisk report: Whites stopped more likely have weapons than blacks

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - The report from the office of Bill de Blasio finds that black and Latino New Yorkers accounted for 84 percent of all stops...
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First lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement speech during the Bowie State University graduation ceremony at the Comcast Center on the campus of the University of Maryland May 17, 2013 in College Park, Maryland. Obama received and Honorary Doctor of Laws degree before addressing the 600 graduates of Maryland's oldest historically black university and one of the ten oldest in the country. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Michelle Obama: Too many 'fantasize about being a baller or a rapper'

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - First lady Michelle Obama addressed Bowie State University's graduating class on Friday and delivered a speech drawing on the importance of earning an education...
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Jason Richwine talks about the importance of race and IQ in the immigration debate. (Photo courtesy of You Tube.)

Ex-Heritage Foundation 'scholar' called blacks less intelligent

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - The Harvard dissertation wasn't the only instance where Jason Richwine asserted that whites are genetically more intelligent than non-whites. And Hispanics haven't been his only targets...
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In this 1941 photo supplied by the United States Library of Congress, children are shown standing in front of half mile concrete wall in Detroit. The wall was built with a simple aim: separate homes planned for middle-class whites from blacks who had already built small houses or owned land with plans to build in the neighborhood.It couldn't separate people on its own, people and policies would see to that, but it was enough to satisfy the Federal Housing Administration to approve and back loans. (AP Photo/United States Library of Congress, John Vachon)

Detroit wall that once divided races remains, serves at history lesson

Jeff Karoub, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) - The 6 feet tall and a foot thick wall was built two decades earlier with a simple aim: to separate homes planned for middle-class whites from blacks who had already built small houses or owned land with plans to build...
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Trayvon 'target practice' leads to Fla. cop firing

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - A Port Canaveral, Florida police officer has been fired for bringing targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range...
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This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in a scene from "42," by writer-director Brian Helgeland. Remembering Robinson's accomplishments is more important than ever, say people involved with "42" and baseball historians alike. And because he was such an inspiring cultural figure, it's more important than ever to get his story right. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, D. Stevens)

Should you go see '42' this weekend?

Lilly Workneh
REVIEW - Jackie Robinson was a legendary baseball player and a trail-blazing athlete – but his epic story retold in Brian Helgeland’s '42' is an honest attempt for a home-run that instead sits safely at third base...
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) addresses a breakfast meeting of the 2013 Annual Legislative Summit of U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) March 19, 2013 at Capitol Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. Paul spoke on immigration and he announced his endorsement for a pathway for the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States to become citizens. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rand Paul fails black history at Howard

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - During a speech at Howard University, Rand Paul made his case for blacks supporting the Republican Party. Unfortunately, he was pitching a GOP that hasn't existed for more than 100 years...
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