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OPINION – Condoleezza Rice. First female national security adviser, first black woman to serve as Secretary of State, and Stanford professor. But could she be the GOP’s first black woman vice presidential nominee?…
OPINION – Fair trade may not be as fair as you think. In fact, some of what is passing as fair trade could actually be slave trade. Not to mention child labor…
OPINION – Mumia Abu-Jamal and Troy Davis faced different outcomes, but both cases speak to the issues of doubt and possible innocence…
OPINION – Donald Trump is back! And there’s every indication that he still has a black people problem…
theGRIO REPORT – While the effect of rap celebrity endorsements is sometimes a positive one, these promotional efforts often backfire…
OPINION – For African-Americans, the stakes are high. Black people still suffer from wounds of the civil rights movement, and remember the reluctance of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to go after civil rights murders…
OPINION – With their lockstep support for the Democratic Party in the South, African-Americans are seemingly returning to the old Jim Crow days of political powerlessness…
TheGRIO REPORT – The Supreme Court, has decided to hear arguments next March on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law…
OPINION – Cain has not been hurt by the sexual harassment accusations in terms of his fundraising and support from the base. The audience reaction to Cain in the debate was no exception…
theGRIO REPORT – All in all, African runners won the top five spots and six of the top seven places. In the men’s race, only one American has won since 1983, and no American woman has won since 1977…
theGRIO REPORT – Whether based on actual incidents or the product of rumors and hoaxes, stories of Halloween gang initiations are not going away…
OPINION – The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and motivational speaker is running a presidential campaign full of contradictions — that is, if he is actually running much of a campaign at all…
OPINION – Oh, the things that some people will do for money. Or, to put it another way, the terrible things that some with money will do to those who don’t have any…
OPINION – U.S. Attorney General Eric holder is under the gun these days, but his critics seem to protest too much…
OPINION – Bereft of any ideas, the bottom feeders of ultra-right wing media are once again beating the dead horse of Obama-as-black-radical…
OPINION – Cain has brilliantly positioned himself as a perfect running mate should one of his rivals beat him out for the top spot…
OPINION – Perhaps race explains why Herman Cain is not regarded as a serious frontrunner in the GOP presidential primaries…
OPINION – In staking out a middle ground, Obama has protected himself from the fate visited upon former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election…
OPINION – If we are to believe the charges made by Suskind, then it helps us to understand the context behind the president’s policy decisions…