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'Humans Of New York' campaign to send Brooklyn students to visit Harvard goes viral

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Anthony Mackie unfairly blames theGrio for 'dreadlock' backlash, so here is the video unedited

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Pres. Obama's SOTU address reminds us why he won 'both' times

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'Light Girls' doc gives superficial treatment to a legitimate issue

OPINION - I made myself watch the documentary Light Girls on OWN Monday night. The overwhelming superficiality of several of…
/ January 20, 2015

These ridiculous requirements keep Oscar's voting body very white

OPINION - The current guidelines are weighted towards people that already have their foot in the door, and they don't…
/ January 20, 2015

The Supreme Court must uphold efforts to expand fair access to credit

theGRIO REPORT - Two days after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about one…
/ January 19, 2015

When it comes to Dr. King's dream, America still disappoints

If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would be 86 years old, with a full 50 years since his
/ January 19, 2015

Deborah Cox was the bright spot in film that seemed more about Bobby than Whitney

Last night, just weeks shy of the three-year anniversary of Whitney Houston’s death, Lifetime Network aired the highly anticipated biopic
/ January 18, 2015

Ohio State's post-game 'revelers' re-imagined as Grambling State's post-game 'rioters'

I read an Associated Press piece about what happened after Ohio State University’s football team won the national title. Students
/ January 15, 2015

Let's declare #IamNigeria to honor nation's 2,000 lives lost to terrorists

On Saturday, a girl walked into a crowded market in Maiduguri, Nigeria. When she was stopped to be screened, the
/ January 12, 2015

Lifetime’s second season of Bring It! looks like a winner!

In an age of mindless reality TV shows touting cast members with questionable talent Lifetime appears to have separated itself…
/ January 12, 2015

George Zimmerman strikes again! What do his defenders have to say now?

It really doesn’t come as a shock to hear that George Zimmerman’s distorted world view and temper have resulted in…
/ January 10, 2015

The NAACP bombing, the potential 'terror' attack US media has slept on

On Wednesday, the world was shaken to its core when news spread about a group of masked gunmen that stormed
/ January 9, 2015

Fox's 'Empire' is all drama but is there substance?

theGrio Opinion - Last night Fox debuted Lee Daniels' Empire, a new series starring Terrance Howard that carries the DNA…
/ January 8, 2015

How would Claire Huxtable react to Phylicia Rashad's defense of Cosby?

In a television interview, Phylicia Rashad clarified what she said was a misquote by Showbiz411’s Roger Friedman. The Tony Award-winning
/ January 8, 2015