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October 25, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — Prison-bound former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. plans to sell his home in Washington to help pay $750,000…
October 25, 2013
ANALYSIS - Hillary Clinton, who gave a high-profile speech in Washington on Thursday, is years away from running for president…
October 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In a shocking and uproarious recent Daily Show interview, GOP precinct captain Don Yelton uses the n-word,…
October 24, 2013
OPINION - Not only do our HBCUs stand as a testament to the challenges that lie in the future but…
October 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called on Congress Thursday to finish work on an immigration overhaul by the end…
October 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) ignited a firestorm with a Facebook post this week alleging that an unnamed…
October 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans were taking aim at the Obama administration's handling of its crippled health insurance website as Congress…
October 24, 2013
OPINION - As some Republicans gloat over the technical hiccups of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, more popularly…
October 24, 2013
OPINION - One unfortunate by-product of hiding racism behind the veil of encoded racist policy making (that isn’t explicitly racist),…
October 23, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Republicans say a fundraising email sent out by Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida that…
October 23, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House national security official has been fired for running a Twitter account that was harshly…
October 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama is often chided, especially by pundits and critics on the right, for not doing…
October 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Controversial Maine governor Paul LePage recently made some comments about his state's residents, which are eerily similar…
October 22, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Newark that Cory Booker is leaving behind as the state's newly elected U.S. senator is…
October 22, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Major Owens, a New York City Democrat who served 12 terms in the U.S. House and…