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Jackie Robinson West's title being stripped is about race

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Why the CBC should boycott Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech

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'Being Mary Jane' gives a glimpse into what is stopping us from being happy

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Fired while black: What working at McDonald’s is really like

OPINION - “You don’t fit the profile of the organization I’m trying to build.” That’s what a McDonald’s store owner…
/ January 26, 2015

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

OPINION - When a young boy from Brooklyn attending Mott Hall Bridges Academy told a photographer about the most influential…
/ January 24, 2015

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

OPINION - In an interview on Wednesday, actor Anthony Mackie accused theGrio of editing his controversial statements suggesting that black…
/ January 22, 2015

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

On Tuesday evening, the confident, populist Barack Obama of 2008 — if not 2004 — showed up for his sixth
/ January 21, 2015

'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