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March 24, 2015

Threat against President Obama's niece prompts NCAA security hike

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (AP) — A threat against President Barack Obama’s niece, a player on Princeton’s women’s basketball team, prompted
March 23, 2015

Woman held in psych ward after she told doctors Obama follows her on Twitter

theGRIO REPORT - Kam Brock says she is definitely not crazy, but eight days in the Harlem Hospital psych ward…
March 22, 2015

Fort Lauderdale officers fired over racist text messages

theGrio REPORT - Four Fort Lauderdale, police officers have formally been let go from the force after exchanging racist text…
March 18, 2015

According to Dick Cheney, this is why President Obama is the worst president in his lifetime

theGRIO REPORT - Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview released on Tuesday with Playboy, said that President Obama…
March 18, 2015

Man plotting to kill Pres. Obama busted with informant acting as white supremacist

A Missouri man was charged on Tuesday for plotting to kill President Obama. He was taken in after meetings with
March 18, 2015

Michelle Obama's mom had concerns about her daughter marrying a bi-racial man

Peter Slevin’s biography, Michelle Obama: A Life, is due out next month, and among the stories in its pages is
March 13, 2015

Rudy Giuliani: President Obama should be more like Bill Cosby

theGRIO REPORT - Rudy Giuliani thinks pretty much everything is President Obama's fault — and what's more, he thinks the…
March 13, 2015

President Obama reads mean tweets about himself on Jimmy Kimmel

During Thursday night’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, President Obama got to read some mean tweets about himself during Kimmel’s
March 10, 2015

Republicans' letter to sabotage President Obama on Iran is a historic low

They pretend as if the man isn’t even in the White House. It may not be an exaggeration to say that
March 9, 2015

Obamas reflect on Selma's importance, lesson for two daughters

theGrio REPORT - To highlight the President’s event in Selma on Saturday, the First Lady shared an email on the…
March 7, 2015

President Obama marks Selma's 50th anniversary with powerful speech

theGrio REPORT - SELMA, Ala. (AP) — America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," the nation's first…
March 7, 2015

Conservative columnist apathetic to Nimoy’s death because Spock reminds him of Obama

theGrio REPORT - Matthew Continetti, editor in chief of the conservative Washington Free Beacon, says Spock reminds him of President…
March 7, 2015

The latest unemployment numbers are great if you're not black

Does a rising tide lift all boats, as President Obama once said? The economy is improving, and that’s a good
March 6, 2015

Poll: 4 out of 10 people say race relations worsened since Obama took office

theGRIO REPORT - As the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march and the events in Selma, Alabama, approaches, a…
March 5, 2015

Selma's 50th anniversary brings comparisons to Ferguson

(AP) - They only lasted minutes, but the images of the beatings of civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on…
March 4, 2015

Obamacare clash reaches US high court

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices peppered opponents of President Barack Obama's health care law with skeptical questions during oral…
March 4, 2015

Conservative kid who claims Obama doesn't love America kicked off Facebook

CJ Pearson, the 12-year-old conservative who made waves with his fierce defense of former mayor Rudy Giuliani’s questioning the president’s
March 1, 2015

Obama invoking civil rights struggles past and present

For President Barack Obama, it's a week to invoke America's civil rights struggles from past to present.
February 26, 2015

President Obama predicts success in immigration appeal

MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama urged immigrants thrown into limbo by legal wrangling to keep planning for eventual relief,…
February 26, 2015

North America's first black president, Vicente Guerrero, predates Obama by 180 years

If Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek pronounced “He is the first black president in North America,” most of us would confidently answer