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March 14, 2014

LeBron James agrees to promote Affordable Care Act

theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama has teamed up with Miami Heat star LeBron James to help promote the Affordable…
March 14, 2014

President Obama vows to rethink deportations

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning that any steps President Barack Obama takes to bypass Congress to ease deportations of…
March 13, 2014

Politini: Breastfeeding, Beyoncé and why President Obama is the Comedian-in-Chief

theGRIO VIDEO - Get the scoop on this week in funny and foolishness with the women of Politini...
March 13, 2014

President Obama signs memo calling for expansion of overtime pay for workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a presidential memorandum Thursday directing the Labor Department to devise new overtime rules...
March 13, 2014

Why do Jay Z and Beyoncé bother Bill O'Reilly?

OPINION - It is convenient to place all of the ills of young black youth at the feet of black…
March 13, 2014

Will history be kinder to President Obama than the current polls suggest?

OPINION - President Obama's approval ratings are in the dumps and the pundit class has all but declared the midterms…
March 12, 2014

Politini: Black Twitter's 3 best takedown tactics!

theGRIO VIDEO - From Paula Deen’s affection for the 'good ‘ole days' of the antebellum South to George Zimmerman’s outrageous…
March 12, 2014

President Obama to push for more overtime pay

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will direct the Labor Department to strengthen overtime pay protections for millions of workers,…
March 12, 2014

The good and bad news for Obamacare in new data

theGRIO REPORT - A stream of new data has been released in the last several days about the new health…
March 11, 2014

President Obama scores laughs for health care on Funny or Die's 'Between Two Ferns'

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is hamming it up online to promote his health care plan...
March 10, 2014

Women's History Month: How Oprah Winfrey became her OWN woman

OPINION - If Oprah Winfrey didn’t exist, we couldn’t invent her, at least not without her help...
March 10, 2014

Aretha Franklin on President Obama's 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T' flub: 'Spelling and giving it is a huge difference'

E! Online - Aretha Franklin realizes everyone make mistakes—even the President of the United States...
March 10, 2014

Obamacare credited with significantly lowering rate of uninsured

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of U.S. adults who lack health insurance keeps going down, according to major survey tracking…
March 8, 2014

How the Republicans are still blocking a key plank of Obamacare

theGRIO REPORT - Seventeen states, most in the South or Mountain West, are unabashedly rejecting any consideration of expanding their…
March 8, 2014

At CPAC, Obama's potential successors try to position themselves for the future

theGRIO REPORT - In their speeches at the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual conference, Republican 2016 candidates unsurprisingly bashed President…
March 8, 2014

Daughter of Jeremiah Wright convicted in fraud scheme

CHICAGO — The daughter of President Barack Obama's former pastor was convicted on Friday of laundering thousands of dollars from…
March 8, 2014

President Obama warns party to focus on 2014, not 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats could get walloped in the November elections. The party gets sleepy and distracted in the midterms.…
March 7, 2014

President Obama shows his R-E-S-P-E-C-T for 'women of soul'

WASHINGTON (AP) — He bobbled the spelling, but President Barack Obama had nothing but R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the "women of soul"…
March 6, 2014

Sen. Tom Harkin: Civil rights nominee would have been confirmed if he were white

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama's nomination of civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division…
March 5, 2014

Senate blocks President Obama's pick for civil rights post

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's choice to head the Justice Department's civil rights division has failed a Senate test…