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January 16, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing legislation to restore some parts of the Voting Rights Act…
January 16, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — His education agenda mired in Congress, President Barack Obama is urging university presidents to copy each other's…
January 16, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Biden is not a stranger to addressing predominately African-American crowds on behalf of the president...
January 16, 2014
NBC NEWS - Magic Johnson says an early checkup saved his life – warning him that he had HIV in…
January 16, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Reverend Jeremiah Wright's ongoing public feud with President Barack Obama is apparently still going strong...
January 16, 2014
MSNBC - The last significant legal challenge to Obamacare suffered a setback today, when a Washington DC District Court rejected…
January 16, 2014
MSNBC - The city of Evergreen, Ala., which has a troubled history when it comes to race and voting rights,…
January 15, 2014
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama is keeping the heat on lawmakers to renew jobless benefits for the long-term…
January 15, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The Republican, who considers the late, controversial Sen. Jesse Helms an inspiration, calling the program -- which…
January 15, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, seeing the Miami Heat at the White House on Tuesday was like deja…
January 15, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama's fashion is making history again, at least for the next year, as her second inaugural…
January 15, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama turns 50 this week, and she isn't ruling out future use of plastic surgery or…
January 14, 2014
(AP) - Top lawmakers on Capitol Hill Monday unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending bill funding the so-called discretionary budgets of…
January 14, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by rifle fire on August 4, 1968, a fact that…
January 14, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - In 2010, Wallace, who came to the end of his seven-year term as the only African-American on…