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theGRIO REPORT – With the collapse of Morris Brown College — due to financial mismanagement, corruption, financial aid theft and foreclosure—and the overall precarious fiscal state of HBCUs, some are wondering if these schools can be trusted to properly manage their finances…
theGRIO REPORT – Unless the state’s Board of Pardons prevents it, Pennsylvania is about to execute Terrance ‘Terry’ Williams, 46, who was sent to death row for the 1984 murder of Amos Norwood, a man who had sexually abused him as a child.
OPINION – When it comes to elections, does being likable make you winnable? President Obama will have the opportunity to put this to the test…
OPINION – Gawker just released 950 pages of once confidential documents related to Romney family’s investments, most of which were through Bain Capital, his private equity firm…
OPINION – Looking at this on a purely political level, Rep. Jackson’s absence generated a great deal of speculation, even theories that he was in hiding due to an addiction problem or entanglements with the law…
theGRIO REPORT – This is not the first time that Hannity has come to the defense of people accused of racially insensitive brutality such as Zimmerman…
OPINION – Romney’s pick of a running mate comes at a time when the Republicans’ minority outreach efforts face an uphill battle even within the party…
theGRIO REPORT – A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of people from casting ballots in a state President Obama essentially must win to be re-elected…
OPINION – To be sure, making over-the-top statements is Bill Maher’s shtick. But sometimes it reminds you of the white guy with black friends who slips and says the “n-word,” much to the dismay of that white guy’s former black friends…
OPINION – The jury is still out on Roberts, but before we consider him a new reliable swing vote or a conservative-turned-liberal justice, consider the evidence that this was nothing less than a political move on his part…
OPINION – This week the U.S. Supreme Court scored a victory for reform in the criminal justice system…
OPINION – There’s a big and bitter Congressional primary race brewing in New York that is typical of the political clashes between black candidates of late…
OPINION – Before Rodney King, police brutality was not on the radar screen of white Americans, who were all too ready to buy into the notion of black criminality…
OPINION – This week in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, gay rights groups protested the NYPD’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ policy, which targets mostly black and Latino men…
OPINION – Is Barack Obama black enough? Should we care? We need to stop arguing over President Obama’s blackness and just move on to a more productive conversation…
OPINION – Taylor’s conviction places the spotlight on neighboring Liberia, which has a special relationship with African-Americans…
OPINION – Before Powell starts to rewrite that chapter in history — or at least put his own spin on it — he cannot let himself off the hook for the Iraq war, or the case he made to go forward with it…