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September 2, 2011
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A criminal complaint says 25-year-old Yokeia Smith of East St. Louis is charged in…
September 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - To remind youth of Florida's ban on saggy pants, Democratic State Senator Gary Siplin is handing out…
September 2, 2011
East Bay Express - After being a victim of a Ponzi scheme, the nation's oldest African-American bookstore is recovering from…
September 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. employers stopped adding jobs in August, an alarming setback for an economy that has struggled to…
September 2, 2011
OPINION - Make no mistake about it; we've seen the best of them already...
September 2, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons website Friday shows the rapper at the Atlanta penitentiary with a release…
September 2, 2011
OPINION - The inconvenient truth about black joblessness is that it didn't start on January 20, 2009, with the inauguration…
September 1, 2011
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) - Paralyzed former player Eric LeGrand was nervous in the minutes leading up to his debut as…
September 1, 2011
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - About 100 people rallied Thursday evening in opposition to a proposal to limit the flying of…
September 1, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Like Magic Johnson, Vincent played in the NBA after the pair led Michigan State to the 1979…
September 1, 2011
OPINION - Based on the relatively mild punishments doled out by the NCAA it seems safe to assume some sort…
September 1, 2011
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - Autopsies on Thursday determined that each child was shot once in the head at…
September 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Press Secretary Jay Carney also said Thursday that Obama did not know about the case involving his…
September 1, 2011
(KatieHalper.com) West was disturbed by comments by CBC members like Andre Carson, who said "some of them in Congress right…
September 1, 2011
According to Politico, several GOP lawmakers "called out" Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for criticizing a federal budget deal reached to…
September 1, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - President Barack Obama will have a royal warm-up act when he comes to Detroit to speak during…
September 1, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - If hallmarks of the Gadhafi regime are being thrown out in a lurch towards revenge rather than…
September 1, 2011
CHICAGO - The concert celebrates the 40th anniversary of the show, which started in Chicago in 1970 before moving to…
September 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is characterizing the flap over the timing of the president's address to Congress next…
September 1, 2011
CLUTCH - Williams has made the following official statement: "My remarks were not meant to be offensive. I want to…