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August 6, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is suffering from debilitating depression and even collapsed at his home in Washington…
August 6, 2012
DETROIT – With Friday’s 4-3 ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court that Public Act 4, the state’s controversial Emergency Manager…
August 6, 2012
QUNU, South Africa (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited with Nelson Mandela at his home on…
August 5, 2012
OPINION - Many of our current politicians, including presidential nominees and their supporters, use coded language full of racial undertones…
August 5, 2012
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd obtained secret FBI documents about the civil rights movement that were…
August 4, 2012
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Friday that he has 'paid taxes every year…
August 4, 2012
SLIDESHOW - August 4th, 2012 is President Barack Obama's 51st birthday. The 44th president of the United States, he is…
August 3, 2012
In a recent speech, Rep. Allen West expressed his view that whoever Mitt Romney chooses as his vice presidential running…
August 3, 2012
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - An attempt to kill a Michigan law that gives emergency managers sweeping powers to fix poor…
August 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says new jobs figures released Friday show there are too many people looking for…
August 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In a recent interview with HuffPost Live, Rev. Jesse Jackson opened up about his son, Rep. Jesse…
August 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama got new figures Friday to buttress his argument that he's presiding over steady, if…
August 3, 2012
WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) - President Barack Obama has a simple wish for his upcoming 51st birthday: Florida's 29 electoral…
August 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson took to the House floor today to support the Affordable Care Act, and…
August 2, 2012
After airing a campaign ad by Republican Scott Brown, Beckal responded by calling it a 'flat out lie and distortion'...