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August 23, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A year after Tommy Stinson's online auction raised nearly $50,000 for children ravaged by last year's earthquake…
August 9, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- The U.S. State Department no longer urges American citizens to avoid all travel to Haiti...
August 4, 2011
OPINION - New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the billionaire financier George Soros have teamed up to aid African-American and…
August 1, 2011
PARIS (AP) - France's government says it is tripling aid to nations in the Horn of Africa to euro30 million…
July 27, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota's Somali community -- the nation's largest at an estimated 25,000 people -- is raising tens of…
June 21, 2011
OPINION - Who would think that a anti-bullying author is the classic embodiment of the bully?...
May 24, 2011
DECATUR, Georgia (AP) - When Lil Jon was fired from the reality show "Celebrity Apprentice," the rapper-producer fell short of…
May 21, 2011
VIENNA (AP) - Janet Jackson says every little bit helps when it comes to fighting AIDS...
May 20, 2011
OPINION - While better known as a musical genius for pioneering the Minneapolis Sound, Prince's social consciousness has been a…
May 16, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Kid Rock made good on his vow to donate to five organizations in his hometown of Detroit...
May 15, 2011
CANNES, France (AP) - The show will be held Monday at a historic market not far from the headquarters of…
May 12, 2011
VIDEO - Nicholas Cobb is a lucky high schooler. There's always been food on his table and a roof over…
May 4, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - What stuck Winston Justice most deeply about Haiti is the alarmingly high number of homeless and the…
April 20, 2011
The charity named for the rapper Kanye West that was intended to reduce high school dropout rates has closed mysteriously...
April 19, 2011
VIDEO - Before his numbers were drawn, the coach knew where he wanted to spend it. "Ten years ago, I…
April 11, 2011
NEWNAN, Georgia (AP) - Rosa Lee Ransby and her seven grand- and great-grandchildren lost their home a week before Christmas...
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - With TwitChange.com, Shaun King leveraged Twitter to address the Haitian earthquake's aftermath...
January 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - According to a survey by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, only 38 percent of that money has been…
January 6, 2011
VIDEO - After being in a car crash seventeen years ago, Alan Robinson was left quadriplegic. He later regained his…
December 29, 2010
VIDEO - A choir of homeless people practices Christmas songs, while just down the hall, a young woman is fine…