Opinion

Romney's new base strategy — become more like Newt Gingrich

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theGrio essay contest winner: The American flag I see

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How she almost became the mistress: One woman finally recognized the signs and avoided disaster

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The time I was sexually assaulted… by a woman

MADAME NOIRE - I turned around to see a clearly inebriated, androgynous person at the bar, giving me the seductive/predatory…
/ July 13, 2012

'Free stuff': Is Mitt Romney going to benefit from the NAACP's boos?

OPINION - The Republican presidential hopeful’s willingness to go speak to a “hostile” audience at the annual NAACP National Convention…
/ July 12, 2012

Tyra Banks is back! But she never really left

OPINION - Did you ever really think that Tyra Banks was going anywhere?...
/ July 12, 2012

How Joe Biden became Obama's ideal 'black surrogate'

OPINION - Biden’s assigned role of visible point man for team Obama with minorities raises two tormenting questions for the…
/ July 12, 2012

Eric Holder: Barack Obama's 'secret weapon' with black voters?

OPINION - This nation’s first African-American Attorney General exists in the historical shadow of this nation’s first black president, but…
/ July 11, 2012

Dinesh D'Souza's exploitation of Obama's half-brother, George, represents new low for the Right

OPINION - D’Souza is lying. He is making things up, pulling together non-existent threads and weaving a narrative not even…
/ July 11, 2012

Does Frank Ocean's sexuality matter to straight music fans?

OPINION - Whether or not you approve of Frank Ocean's decision or his sexuality, one has to admire his management…
/ July 11, 2012

Have the black 1 percent abandoned Barack Obama?

OPINION - To date, the president's major Hollywood fundraisers have all been hosted by almost exclusively white celebrities...
/ July 10, 2012

Bill Maher unfairly labels Wayne Brady as non-threatening black man

OPINION - To be sure, making over-the-top statements is Bill Maher’s shtick. But sometimes it reminds you of the white…
/ July 10, 2012

Should blacks be concerned about high rates of out of wedlock births? Perhaps times have changed

OPINION - Blacks are the only racial group who aren’t willing to make an unplanned pregnancy their reason for marrying...
/ July 9, 2012

From Lauryn Hill to Wesley Snipes: Why do black celebs have trouble paying their taxes?

OPINION - Unfortunately (and perhaps to a conspiracy theorist, by no coincidence at all) black celebrities comprise some of the…
/ July 9, 2012

Does D'Angelo's body image distract from his music?

OPINION - Why does it appear that people still insist on obsessing about the man’s abs (or lack thereof)?...
/ July 9, 2012