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November 7, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hip hop heavyweights known as much for their fiery political lyrics as for their bass-pounding beats…
November 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT: Feminist and former Black Panther Angela Davis continues her legacy as a scholar-activist lending her voice to support…
November 2, 2011
OAKLAND, Calif (AP) - Occupy Oakland participants, elected officials and business leaders expressed optimism that the widely anticipated "general strike"…
October 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The drum circle at Occupy Wall Street is known to protesters within Zuccotti Park as the Pulse…
October 26, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Mayor Reed now says the city had no choice but to close the park down because a…
October 26, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - With helicopters hovering overhead, police moved into a downtown Atlanta park and arrested around 50 Occupy Wall…
October 26, 2011
OAKLAND, California (AP) - The scene was tense early Wednesday as a crowd of hundreds of protesters dwindled to just…
October 25, 2011
OAKLAND, California (AP) - Television news footage showed numerous people in plastic handcuffs being led away from the Oakland site…
October 24, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis called the preacher 'one of the founding fathers of the New America,' who…
October 23, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, often eclipsed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in life, was…
October 23, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy…
October 19, 2011
THE HILL - Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) rejected President Obama's comparison between Martin Luther King Jr. and what he called…
October 19, 2011
A substitute teacher no longer has a job with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after footage of her…
October 18, 2011
A heated confrontation Monday night between Occupy Wall Street protesters and the NYPD was defused through the help of some…
October 17, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The outcry against financial institutions that has swept the United States in recent weeks has crossed many…
October 17, 2011
OPINION - But in the name of remaining politically safe, did the broader community lose an opportunity to connect the…
October 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Supreme Court spokeswoman says 19 people were arrested Sunday afternoon after they refused to leave the…
October 15, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands of demonstrators have packed the lawn in the shadow of the Washington Monument to hear various…
October 13, 2011
OPINION - New faces, even those whose prior music and/or positions are a welcome addition..
October 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In this mix is Erin Malone, an African-American female from Brooklyn, helping to make sure all of…