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December 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional…
November 16, 2011
DETROIT - With the city of Detroit facing potential bankruptcy, Mayor Dave Bing vowed to make significant cuts to balance…
November 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The city of Detroit could face potential bankruptcy by next Spring if significant cuts are not made.…
November 15, 2011
SLIDESHOW - On November 9, the National Urban League Policy Institute released its State of Urban Business report on minority…
November 2, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment rates fell in about three-quarters of large U.S. cities in September, a sign that the nation's…
October 6, 2011
CLEVELAND (AP) - Across the street from Quicken Loans Arena, a building that rocks and rolls from November until April…
September 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For the owners of black businesses in the North that were established and thrived on the patronage…
September 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Political analysts and writers agree that Booker hasn't soothed residents' paranoia about what's going to happen to…
September 6, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - But in the past 10 years as the city lost more than 17 percent of its black…
August 25, 2011
OPINION - It is in predominantly black neighborhoods where King streets where we often find empty storefronts, no sit-down restaurants,…
August 19, 2011
OPINION - For there to be any chance for us, or any urban area with a violent history, to shake…
August 3, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates rose in 345 large metro areas...
July 28, 2011
OPINION - Detroit is in dire straits these days, and the Motor City could give us a hint as to…
July 7, 2011
OPINION - Crime rates are falling -- and that's good news. That there may be a correlation between increasing racial…
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 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department says the unemployment rate increased in 210 metro areas in May, a sharp reversal…
April 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hispanics now outnumber African-Americans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting dynamics in cities…
March 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Seattle department's report comes after a series of events that have aroused the scrutiny of civil…
March 2, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The changes can mean displacement of memories and sites that some African-Americans believe are historic and priceless...
November 18, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - The problems urban areas already face, like pollution, over-development, and inadequate infrastructure, could exacerbate climate change's effects...