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May 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Chants roared from the crowd as attendees of Howard University’s 146th commencement waited to hear from one…
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May 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The barrage of Mother’s Day greetings on social media and ads pick open scabs left from a…
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May 9, 2014
(AP) — Chris Brown on Friday admitted a probation violation over an altercation last year outside a Washington, D.C., hotel…
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May 9, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Bell hooks, noted black feminist and author, recently went on a scathing tirade about Beyonce.
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May 9, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Michael Ealy was honored by a Harlem-based youth organization and shared some of his own ambitions that…
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May 9, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Shonda Rhimes caught herself involved in a scandal this week after she shut down rumors on social…
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May 7, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - JET, one of the nation's premiere black publications, has decided to end their print issues and transition…
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May 7, 2014
OPINION - In the latest issue of Vanity Fair, she breaks her 17-year silence, writing, “it’s time to burn the…
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May 7, 2014
(AP) - President Barack Obama says the U.S. will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage…
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May 6, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - His classic 1989 film, 'She's Gotta Have It' has been picked up by Showtime network and is…
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May 6, 2014
(AP) - One 16-year-old was among about 50 students who escaped on that fateful day, and she spoke for the…
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May 6, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Hollywood's biggest celebrities dared to step out of the box Monday night and donned some of the…
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May 5, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - In a moving speech, Gabourey Sidibe opened up about how she's tackled the negative comments she received…
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May 5, 2014
OPINION - The travesty in Leslie Jones’s ill-received Saturday Night Live skit was not that she dared to joke about…
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May 5, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria - The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian…
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May 5, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - One particular instance involving a student at Shaw University in North Carolina ended in his refusal to…
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May 4, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - In many of the characters Smith has portrayed onscreen, critics would label some as those that carry…
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May 3, 2014
(AP) - V. Stiviano says Donald Sterling's racist comments on an audio recording leaked to the public were not the…
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May 3, 2014
(AP) — San Jose State University has expelled three students accused of bullying and tormenting their black roommate by putting…
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May 3, 2014
AP - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following…