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Oscars’ ‘Kanye moment’ shouldn’t overshadow history

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Mo’Nique’s win is one of Oscar night’s ‘Precious’ moments

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Rev. Frederick D. Reese remembers ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma (VIDEO)

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Obama to appeal for public support on health care

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Obama is taking his last-ditch…
/ March 8, 2010

8-year-old girl pleads with 911 dispatcher as mother dies

VIDEO - Detroit police have released a chilling 911 call made by a young girl trying to get help after…
/ March 8, 2010

TheGrio’s 100: Kamala Harris, the future of California politics

TheGrio's 100 - San Francisco voters elected Kamala Harris to be the city's first female District Attorney...
/ March 8, 2010

Mo’Nique wins best supporting actress Oscar for ‘Precious’

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mo'Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel…
/ March 7, 2010

John Lewis remembers ‘Bloody Sunday’ march, beatings

SELMA, Alabama (AP) - Georgia Congressman John Lewis strolled to the middle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and…
/ March 7, 2010

Lee Daniels: We need to get out of ‘Huxtable’ mode (VIDEO)

VIDEO - 'Precious' director Lee Daniels is "just happy" to be nominated for an Oscar...
/ March 7, 2010

Are the Oscars finally colorblind?

Do the nominations of Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Daniels and Freeman herald a real shift in the Academy Awards' rocky reputation with…
/ March 7, 2010

‘Precious’ girls are everywhere

Though the movie was based on fiction, the circumstances that Precious faces are happening to many African-American girls and the…
/ March 7, 2010

White man posing as black doctor, makes house calls

VIDEO - There is clearly no resemblance, but police in say that didn't stop 54-year-old Patrick Lynch from telling patients…
/ March 5, 2010

Black leaders’ support may buy time for Paterson

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson might have won some time when he received what has become…
/ March 5, 2010

Unemployment rate remains unchanged as 36,000 jobs lost

VIDEO - The figures suggest the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur...
/ March 5, 2010

‘No place like home’: The cast of ‘227’ reunites

VIDEO - Twenty years after '227' went off the air, the cast reunites to talk to theGrio about the state…
/ March 4, 2010