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December 9, 2011

BET's 'Curious' Cain doc confirms candidate is all style, no substance

OPINION - BET News correspondent Emmett Miller, who followed the campaign during its glory days, gave Cain the opportunity to…
December 7, 2011

African countries may pay price for violence against gays

OPINION - For the first time in U.S. history protecting and promoting the civil rights of gays will become part…
November 24, 2011

New anti-Obama ads sell fiction as fact

OPINION - Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are releasing campaign ads that quote President Obama out of context in a…
November 15, 2011

White conservative says blackness defined by 'darker complexion'

OPINION - In case you didn't know, white Republicans have become the definitive voice on what constitutes blackness...
November 10, 2011

Are poor black boys easy targets for sexual predators?

OPINION - Over the past few years similar incidents of sexual impropriety in the realm of sports have surfaced, with…
November 5, 2011

NY radio station launches new voice of black gay life

theGRIO REPORT - Clay Cane is the sole African-American host of the new Equality Pride line-up, and he has chosen…
October 24, 2011

Flailing Rick Perry flirts with birtherism

OPINION - Rick Perry needs to rise above the fray if he expects to have a chance at winning the…
October 18, 2011

Newsflash! Press pounce on Obama more than anyone

OPINION - The Pew Research Center found that negative assessments of President Obama outweighed positive by a ratio of nearly…
October 14, 2011

Can Obama bypass Congress to create jobs?

OPINION - By facing GOP obstinacy with equal force, he can re-engineer the broken political machine and make it work…
October 7, 2011

Will 'Occupy Wall Street' hurt or help Obama?

OPINION - There is strength in numbers, and the political reality remains that President Obama is a far better electoral…
October 1, 2011

Obama is winning war on terror while GOP gripes

OPINION - He is decisive. He is a leader. He's aggressive and results driven. And now the facts stand in…
September 26, 2011

Can the GOP use the Black Caucus against Obama?

OPINION - As the race for the White House heats up, we can surely expect to see the CBC used…
September 21, 2011

Finally asking, openly telling: The end of DADT

OPINION - The taste of victory belongs to the soldiers, who for too long were asked to die, but denied…
September 20, 2011

Can President Obama win the tax war?

OPINION - His new tax proposal is exactly what America needs and the kind of bold leadership progressives have been…
September 15, 2011

Tea Party politics are easier to preach than practice

OPINION - The libertarian arguments are flawed on all sides: let sick people die, leave the elderly to their own…
September 8, 2011

Will Obama's jobs speech silence his black critics?

OPINION - Unemployment rates for African-Americans are now the highest it has been since President Obama took office, and the…
September 7, 2011

Obama: 'Obviously' black Americans have 'suffered more'

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama, in his own words, speaks candidly, honestly and poignantly on how his policies affect the…
September 2, 2011

Can a black man become Mississippi governor?

OPINION - There is no reason to believe what Obama did in 2008 can't be replicated at the state-level for…
August 29, 2011

Arizona launches attack on Voting Rights Act

OPINION - It seems the GOP is on a campaign to rewrite American history and erase the lessons learned from…
August 24, 2011

Does Gadhafi's fall spell doom for the Nation of Islam?

OPINION - Though Farrakhan has been a relevant voice for three decades, it is now time to hold leaders accountable,…