Opinion

Time to bring kidnapped American aid worker Warren Weinstein home

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Open Internet? Yes. Reclassify broadband as a utility? No.

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Riots, destruction won’t bring justice following Michael Brown’s death

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Attention Lil’ Kim: Stop the diss records and – just stop

OPINION - All I want for Christmas is someone to sit Kimberly Jones down and have a tough talk with…
/ August 7, 2014

Unsupervised children cases shows the need for affordable childcare

OPINION - Yet another struggling low-income single mom has been criminalized for buckling under the pressures of being a working…
/ August 6, 2014

These fire and fainting challenges are stupid and dangerous

OPINION - A teenage boy stands in the shower wearing shorts and douses himself in acetone (nail polish remover). He…
/ July 31, 2014

Our involvement in Iraq ignores an appalling anti-black record

theGRIO REPORT - 462 black people fought and died under Operation Iraqi Freedom but nothing is said about Iraq’s appalling…
/ July 24, 2014

‘Dating Naked’ takes love connections to a new level of awkward

OPINION - VH1’s new dating reality series is far from conservative, but eye-opening in more ways than one...
/ July 18, 2014

‘Straight Outta Compton’ casting call is a straight up mess

OPINION - Production on Straight Outta Compton, the biopic about N.W.A. is underway and Universal Studios is looking to cast…
/ July 17, 2014

Virginia man claims African ‘kingdom’ to call daughter ‘princess’

OPINION - 7-year old Emily told her father, Jeremiah Heaton, that she wants to be a real princess. Instead of…
/ July 14, 2014

When it comes to money, black people, we are in trouble!

OPINION - The red flags are waving, but it is not too late if action is taken now, to teach…
/ July 12, 2014

Reimagining that hilarious President Obama, Rick Perry photo

OPINION - President Barack Obama had a meeting with Governor Rick Perry of Texas on Wednesday...
/ July 11, 2014

LeBron James lets grudges die with Cavs owner Dan Gilbert

OPINION - He should be celebrated for that, and this decision should be universally praised. Now it’s time for Gilbert…
/ July 11, 2014

Jezebel gets it wrong with new ‘Editor’ hire

OPINION - Jezebel is constantly getting critiqued for being a site that mostly amplifies white voices, instead of being truly…
/ July 8, 2014

50 years later, the Civil Rights Act would not pass

OPINION - On this Independence Day—as we celebrate the struggles that were fought and the sacrifices that were made in…
/ July 4, 2014