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CANNES, France (AP) – Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend — TV reality star Kim Kardashian — in Cannes, the only place for anyone famous to be this week…
OPINION – Homophobia in the black community is an ugly reality and black women, as members of that community, we must acknowledge and own our part in that…
OPINION – Despite a massive and expensive outreach campaign to minorities, the 2010 U.S. Census missed over 1.5 million blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and others. And a failure to count that many people could have dire consequences in the coming decade…
PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona’s secretary of state says Hawaii’s verification of President Barack Obama’s birth records meets necessary requirements and that the president’s name will appear on Arizona’s ballot in the fall…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate, the government said Tuesday…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus was known for his opposition to hazing but agreed to go through a brutal initiation ritual because it was seen as an honor, according to interviews with band mates released Wednesday….
Last week, Jay-z announced the “Made in America” music festival to take place in Philadelphia Labor Day weekend. Now the […]
Antonio Cromartie’s wife sent two alarming text messages to her husband, on May 6th of last year implying that she would cut her wrists and kill herself…
HONOLULU (AP) – The state of Hawaii has verified President Barack Obama’s birth records to Arizona’s elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said could have ended without the incumbent’s name on its November ballot….
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn’t ready ‘to throw my weight behind someone’ at this time…
DALLAS (AP) – Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for two decades as the first black woman to represent North Texas in Congress…
OPINION – It’s a tale of two hoodies where guilt and innocence are turned upside down, where one young man ends up rich and another ends up dead, depending on the person’s race…
OPINION – In the double consciousness of blackness and gayness, we are senselessly losing our youth…
NEW YORK (AP) – It’s a family affair at the upcoming BET Awards: Kanye West has the most nominations with seven, while his mentor, Jay-Z, earned five, and Jay-Z’s wife, Beyoncé, received six…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Supermodel Naomi Campbell celebrated her 42nd birthday on Tuesday with a trip to the birthplace of Jesus, wishing for “good vibrations, not destruction” in the troubled Middle East…
NEW YORK (AP) – R&B singer Ray J has been hospitalized near Las Vegas for exhaustion…
OPINION – Cory Booker’s attempt to draw a false equivalency between Wright and Bain was wildly off the mark…
theGRIO REPORT – Much of the media is now fixated on the pictures of the injuries George Zimmerman sustained on the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin…
theGRIO REPORT – After days of silence, Rev. Marvin Winans spoke publicly Sunday for the first time since he was assaulted and carjacked by a group of four men at a Detroit gas station. Winans, still showing signs of injury from the attack, said that he knew that he was in trouble as soon as he went to pay for his gas…
theGRIO REPORT – For years now, black churches have carried a reputation of being misogynistic and homophobic institutions…