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July 14, 2009
President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is on the hotseat before a Senate committee during today's confirmation hearings
July 14, 2009
High passion was on display outside the Senate building where the hearing is taking place. Inside, Judge Sonia Sotomayor listened…
July 14, 2009
At 36 years-old Benjamin Todd Jealous is the youngest person to ever lead the NAACP. As he presented his opening…
July 13, 2009
On Thursday conservative blog "Free Republic" posted a thread accompanied by a photo of First Lady Michelle Obams speaking to…
July 13, 2009
President Obama and family are back at the White House now, returning overnight from their week-long trip to Europe and
July 13, 2009
A Senate panel began confirmation hearings Monday for President Barack Obama's choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, who…
July 13, 2009
The Obama daughters will have plenty to write about in their “What did you do this summer?” essay. In Moscow,
July 11, 2009
Watch President Obama speak of his family's experience touring the slave dungeons of Cape Coast Castle. President Barack Obama said…
July 11, 2009
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- An American president who has "the blood of Africa within me" praised and scolded the continent…
July 10, 2009
President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. He landed soon after 9 p.m.…
July 10, 2009
In anticipation of Barack Obama’s arrival to Ghana today, theGrio reflects on former President Bill Clinton’s twelve-day tour of Africa
July 10, 2009
Former DC Mayor Marion Barry speaks for the first time since his arrest in Anacostia last weekend.
July 10, 2009
Remember the moment at Michael Jackson's memorial when Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas held up a framed resolution she…
July 9, 2009
President Barack Obama sat down with AllAfrica.com before he left the country for Ghana. Watch excerpt of video or view
July 9, 2009
On the eve of President Obama’s visit to Ghana, theGrio looks back to when the country first celebrated its independence