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April 2, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Bowser rose to victory from a field of eight contenders amid a prickly battle that heated up…
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November 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Recent cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) -- commonly called food stamps -- worries…
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October 1, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The shutdown will impact in different ways some of the nation's more than 2 million civilian workers,…
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September 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Amid the mix of authors, vendors, elected officials and hundreds of participants who attended policy forums and…
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September 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - At the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc. awards dinner, Obama sounded determined, and at times defiant...
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August 29, 2013
ESSAY - Whether you volunteer, mentor, donate money or do something else to help your brethren, now is the time…
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August 10, 2012
Lisette Dewitt * is trying to stay strong, but it’s hard. The single mother is facing foreclosure in less than…
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July 31, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Obama administration has launched the first steps of an ambitious plan to dramatically improve academic achievement…
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July 16, 2012
REVIEW - While Americans and people all over the world are familiar with president Obama's biracial heritage, only basic family…
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July 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - With the presidential election close at hand, Mormons, and particularly African-American Latter-day Saints, have been increasingly thrust…
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May 13, 2012
TheGrio REPORT -- A few days ago at the White House, as military families enjoyed a Mother's Day celebration in…
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April 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Three alleged white supremacists who violently beat an African-American man while he waited at a Houston bus stop…
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April 6, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - You may remember the saga of Kemba Smith, the onetime Hampton University student who in 1995 was…
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March 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Rodell Mollineau, a 35-year-old African-American political strategist, is the president of American Bridge, one of the two…
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January 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Currently playing in Baltimore at CENTERSTAGE, a nationally respected artistic venue, 'Gleam' tells the epic story of…
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January 12, 2012
REVIEW - The book has 360 pages of dialogue and intimate details, giving the impression of being inside the minds…
January 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Obama administration officials are hoping that its plan, dubbed Summer Jobs +, will reach other young people…
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November 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama also granted pardons to five other individuals, including three convicted of marijuana-related offenses, according to…
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September 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - As cameras clicked and flashed steadily during the star-studded event, one by one the celebs took the…
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September 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For decades, efforts to honor Tubman on a national level have stalled for one reason or another...