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September 21, 2012

CBC chairman Emanuel Cleaver: Blacks who don't vote should 'give their color back'

theGRIO REPORT - Congressional Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver said yesterday that blacks who decide not to vote 'ought to…
September 21, 2012

Did Mitt Romney get a tan for Latino audience?

OPINION - What a Shakespearean twist of tragedy that the Republican Cleopatra, that sultry gypsy of a banker that Romney…
September 21, 2012

Corruption trial opens for former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

DETROIT (AP) - A prosecutor says former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lived a luxurious lifestyle funded by hundreds of thousands…
September 21, 2012

Maxine Waters will not be charged with ethics violations

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters will not be charged with ethics violations...
September 21, 2012

Black women rally against voter ID laws

WASHINGTON (AP) - With iPad in hand, Reese is going to community centers, homes and churches in nine Ohio cities,…
September 20, 2012

New polls show Obama surge; president leads in Iowa, Colorado and Wisconsin

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama has sizable leads in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist…
September 20, 2012

House moves to reverse administration welfare plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans on Thursday followed up Mitt Romney's remarks about people who get federal aid with a…
September 20, 2012

GOP lawmaker: 47 percent 'too lazy' to get photo ID

theGRIO REPORT - Pennsylvania House Representative Daryl Metcalfe told a local radio host yesterday morning that the state cannot carry…
September 20, 2012

Obama: Romney hasn't 'gotten around a lot'

MIAMI (AP) - President Barack Obama said rival Mitt Romney hasn't 'gotten around a lot' if he believes that 47…
September 20, 2012

September 25th is National Voter Registration Day

theGRIO REPORT - In four days over 1100 organizations will come together in a national wide call for voter registration...
September 20, 2012

Texas man 'lynches' empty chair, says Obama can 'go to Hell'

theGRIO REPORT - In what appears to be an homage to Clint Eastwood's much maligned debate with an imaginary President…
September 20, 2012

Pawlenty resigns from Romney campaign to lobby

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has resigned as a national co-chairman of Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign…
September 20, 2012

Obama v. Romney could shape Supreme Court

(AP) - With four justices in their seventies, odds are good that whoever is elected president in November will have…
September 20, 2012

Why Romney can't articulate his positions clearly

OPINION - I could make a credible argument that the Republican presidential candidate simply cannot persuade a majority of voters…
September 20, 2012

Ethics panel to hold hearing in Maxine Waters case

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Ethics Committee will hold a hearing Friday in the case of Rep. Maxine Waters, a…