Washington Post names 1st black managing editor

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - The Washington Post announced Monday that national editor Kevin Merida will be moving up to managing editor. Merida is the first African-American to hold this position at the publication...

theGrio's 100: Emi Kolawole, the Washington Post's innovative blogger

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theGRIO's 100 - A graduate of Wellesley College, the 30-year-old Emi Kolawole has been a fixture at the Washington Post since 2010...

Obama taps Medgar Evers' widow for invocation

Marquise Francis

theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama has picked Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocation at his second inauguration later this month, according to the Washington Post...

Poll: Public approves of Obama's handling of fiscal cliff

Marquise Francis

theGRIO REPORT - While the resolution of the fiscal cliff fight has left Americans divided, President Barack Obama's approval far exceeds that of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), according to a Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday...

Pulitzer-winning columnist dead at 76

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 76...

Study: Less than a quarter of blacks earn more than parents

theGrio

frican-Americans have had a harder time obtaining more wealth than their parents. According to Pew Research, only 23 percent of blacks are currently earning more income than their parents did...

Wall Street Journal intern fired after fabricating sources

theGrio

The Wall Street Journal has fired intern Liane Membis for allegedly fabricating sources in a recent report about the re-opening of the 103rd Street Pedestrian Bridge in Manhattan...

Rediscovering the first African-American boxing giant

theGrio

Recently a Washington Post sportswriter chronicled the reined the first African-American boxing champ, Joe Gans...

White student leads black club at high school

theGrio

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria has a white president of their black student union...

Obama leads Romney in new national poll

theGrio

According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, President Obama is beginning to open up a lead nationally in general election polls against his most likely Republican rival.

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Washington Post names 1st black managing editor

theGrio's 100: Emi Kolawole, the Washington Post's innovative blogger

Obama taps Medgar Evers' widow for invocation

Poll: Public approves of Obama's handling of fiscal cliff

Pulitzer-winning columnist dead at 76

Study: Less than a quarter of blacks earn more than parents

Wall Street Journal intern fired after fabricating sources

Rediscovering the first African-American boxing giant

White student leads black club at high school

Obama leads Romney in new national poll

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