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July 26, 2011
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) - Mihag Gedi Farah is 7 months old, and weighs as little as a newborn with the…
July 19, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Educators are accused of giving students inappropriate help and, in some cases, of changing students' answers --…
July 17, 2011
NEW ORLEANS - One can only imagine what might have been going through the mind of a 29-year-old mother of…
July 15, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The story is all too familiar: a child finds an unsecured gun, gets curious and fires it,…
July 8, 2011
Rep. Bachmann signed a Republican social policy pledge that says African-American children born into slavery had stronger families than during…
July 6, 2011
OPINION - The case struck a nerve on what is colloquially called "black Twitter" because it reminds us of a…
June 30, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and culture have…
June 18, 2011
OPINION - For me, Sunday will mark the 37th Father's Day that I have not had my father...
June 18, 2011
OPINION - Putting sons on that path -- reminding them that they are part of the human community -- means…
June 17, 2011
OPINION - As I watch my father grow in his manhood, I've learned that a good cry and sharing can…
June 16, 2011
OPINION - According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, American students are less proficient in their nation's history than…
June 15, 2011
WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama joined 400 volunteers to help build a playground at the Imagine Southeast Public Charter…
June 14, 2011
OPINION - Summertime and the living is....not so easy if you have kids to keep active and entertained when school…
June 13, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In Nampula General, up to 60 percent of beds are taken up by patients with basic forms…
June 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first lady said instilling good health habits through child care centers and home-based care can be…
May 25, 2011
LONDON (AP) - She told the girls touring the University of Oxford for the day that they have to battle…
May 24, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Once a disease of the elderly, diabetes now affects black children too. African-Americans in general are two…
May 19, 2011
OPINION - It seems unlikely that the 5,000 public charter schools with 1.7 million students are about to become the…
May 18, 2011
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A woman said Monday that an Ohio charter school is punishing her daughter for not immediately…
May 18, 2011
OPINION - It's time for us to get off of our collective butts and sit with our children and start…