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January 18, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The attacks, in what's called the Kensington Strangler case, had left the neighborhood shaken -- and police…
January 18, 2011
VIDEO - The drama that you learned in history class -- Harriet Tubman and other slaves risking their lives for…
January 18, 2011
ALAMEDA, California (AP) - Jackson will be formally introduced at a news conference on Tuesday -- two weeks after the…
January 18, 2011
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) - Court documents show the 72-year-old singer of "At Last" and other standards lives in the Woodcrest…
January 18, 2011
OPINION - The brain drain that has ruined Haiti was a Duvalier legacy, one whose destructive impact will last more…
January 18, 2011
The Southern Association of Schools and Colleges (SACS), one of the nation's top accrediting agencies, announced today Atlanta Public Schools…
January 18, 2011
OPINION - I find it ironic that Dr. Laura considers herself to be the victim, rather than the beneficiary of…
January 18, 2011
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - More than half of Camden's 80,000 residents, mostly black and Hispanic, live in poverty...
January 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - As he took part in a painting project at a Washington, DC middle school, President Barack Obama…
January 17, 2011
From Politics Daily: Sen. John McCain lost a bitter campaign against Barack Obama in 2008 and has been at loggerheads
January 17, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - The suspect is described as black, in his 30s and about 5 feet 9 inches tall. All…
January 17, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, a once feared and reviled dictator who was ousted in a popular…
January 17, 2011
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) - LePage's attendance was "a political act that has nothing to do with his convictions," said Julie…
January 17, 2011
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (AP) - Mississippi Winn, an upbeat former domestic worker known as "Sweetie," died Friday afternoon at Magnolia Manor…
January 17, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Arizona once resisted the notion of a federal King holiday -- and last year was the setting…
January 17, 2011
SURVEY - TheGrio assembled a group of 25 contemporary academics, artists and activists to assess the most influential black leaders…
January 17, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - There are over 900 Martin Luther King Boulevards across the country. In Baltimore this street has been…
January 17, 2011
OPINION - Leaders do not always win, but leaders always call us to believe that we are capable of making…
January 17, 2011
VIDEO - Small businesses were a little less optimistic about future business conditions in December, ending four months of gains...
January 16, 2011
OPINION - It is our fault, not his, that Dr. King has been placed on a pedestal so high that…