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OPINION - Calling Justin Bieber a thug does not make the racial insults hurled at Richard Sherman any more palatable,…
OPINION - Madonna’s use of the n-word as a 'term of endearment' towards her white son on Instagram is perhaps…
OPINION - It’s a beautiful thing to have people who love you and who would fight for you, but don’t…
OPINION - The intense, around-the-clock documentation of celebrity life by paparazzi and the over-sharing that many famous (and non-famous) people…
OPINION - Singer songwriter Ani DiFranco, who is known for her staunchly anti-sexist and anti-racist lyrics, has decided to cancel…
OPINION - The First Amendment is the right of free speech, not to be confused with being suspended from a…
OPINION - Fox News devoted several minutes of television airtime to debating the 'facts' about the race of Santa Claus...
OPINION - If having a cast of actors that are mostly of one race is the qualifier for a film…
OPINION - Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen said it’s not fair that people are calling him racist because of a…
OPINION - Nobody was expecting SNL to tackle its latest negative headlines so directly and comedy is generally funnier when…
OPINION - Realistically, the folks who will read this article are black people who already know that blackface is not…
OPINION - It would be great if a former drug-dealing, public housing-living black man who became a multi-millionaire entertainer and…
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his collaborator Dr. Donald Yacovone have exciting findings for African-American history…
OPINION - Let’s be clear. An 8-year-old can not consent to sex and especially not to a teenager, no matter…
theGRIO REPORT - Phylicia Rashad, Taraji P. Henson and S. Epatha Merkerson open up about performing in 'August Wilson's American…
OPINION - Toni Morrison is literary royalty and though her work is fiction, it is rooted in real life, real…
OPINION - This lack of a love life, or at least a public one anyway, has led some to the…
OPINION - Black women with large behinds are not accessories. Grills, trap music and stripper anthems are not all there…
OPINION - Is it too soon for art inspired by this horrific incident and is it even possible to do…
theGRIO REPORT - Singer/songwriter Amel Larrieux, half of the chart-topping 90s duo Groove Theory, is set to release a solo…