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(AP) – The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: ‘black’…

VIDEO – The search for a 17-year-old girl from Miramar, Florida who went missing last Wednesday afternoon continues…

theGRIO REPORT – President Obama and Mitt Romney are sounding more and more like they are already in the midst of the general election against one another, even as three other GOP candidates continue running for the party’s nomination…

PHOENIX (AP) – Police have started methodically searching a landfill south of Phoenix for the body of a 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing for more than four months…

theGRIO REPORT – Theresa Deloach-Reed, 52, was named chief of the Oakland city fire department. Reed has been fighting fires for nearly 30 years, has seen many changes on the job and calls her appointment ‘exciting’…

SEATTLE (AP) – A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state…

theGRIO REPORT – Embattled church leader Eddie Long has apologized for participating in a ceremony at his church where he was declared a king and wrapped in a ‘Holocaust Torah’…