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December 8, 2011
THE BIG ISSUE - NBC News reporter Mara Schiavocampo explores the pros and cons of voting reform in the Palmetto…
December 8, 2011
NEWSONE - Plots to suppress the African American vote date back to the Reconstruction Era...
December 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z didn't graduate from high school, but he's encouraging others to value their education...
December 8, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans rapper B.G., an original member of the late-1990s rap group Hot Boys that included…
December 8, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - New York will pay $3.5 million to a Bronx mother whose son was violently restrained by prison…
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - An online advocacy group wants corporations that market to African Americans to stop giving money to a…
December 8, 2011
OPINION - Seriously, how many R & B songs with heavy rotation on the radio right now will you still…
December 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Adele dominated music this year, and iTunes was no exception...
December 8, 2011
MIAMI (AP) - The half-brother of reggae legend Bob Marley says he will fight a lawsuit seeking to stop him…
December 8, 2011
Of all the challenges facing the city of New Orleans, none is as urgent or as relentlessly grim as the…
December 8, 2011
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Florida A&M University's Board of Trustees voted Thursday to publicly reprimand the school's president rather than…
December 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - 50 Cent has rapped about getting rich. Now he's focusing on getting fit...
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is defending his administration's decision to stop plans to allow the Plan B morning-after…
December 8, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress study has found Washington, D.C. public schools have the largest…
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is firmly rejecting Republican accusations that he has engaged in an 'appeasement' foreign policy.…
December 8, 2011
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Oregon State defensive tackle Fred Thompson died Wednesday night after he collapsed while playing basketball at…
December 8, 2011
SAN ANTONIO - A local college student says she was fired from her job for refusing to allow a transgender…
December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked President Barack Obama's choice to head the new consumer protection agency that…
December 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich recently declared that, if elected president, he'd ease child labor laws to allow poor kids to work as…
December 8, 2011
Waynesboro, GA --The city of Waynesboro will ring in the new-year with their first ever African-American and female Mayor...