Common

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June 17, 2011
OPINION - Hip-hop's embrace of Bill O'Reilly and his caustic invectives is just as bad as this man dissing the…
June 13, 2011
Fox Business host Eric Bolling is drawing fire for comments he made about President Obama on Friday...
May 17, 2011
VIDEO - Common's recent invitation to perform at the White House fueled a heated debate last night between Comedy Central's…
May 13, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - O'Reilly has criticized Common's presence at Wednesday's event. He says some of Common's lyrics celebrate violence...
May 13, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Welcome to the weekly wrap up. We've got all the black entertainment news from the week that…
May 12, 2011
The man at the center of all those middle-aged white people's anger this week was Chicago's own Lonnie Rashid Lynn…
May 12, 2011
OPINION - Obama appears to be moving too fast and successfully for GOP strategists, and they seem to be clearly…
May 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rapper Common opened his performance at the White House with cuts of words from Martin Luther King,…
May 11, 2011
If you haven't been following the story, Michelle Obama's event is set to feature poetry readings by a number of…
May 11, 2011
Spokesman Jay Carney says President Barack Obama has spoken out against violent and misogynistic music lyrics..
May 11, 2011
OPINION - Although the talented Chicago-bred rapper is hardly immune to criticism, the controversy has become the latest episode in…
May 10, 2011
If the artist is worth his or her salt, then chances he or she has probably done something outre or…
May 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Welcome to the weekly wrap up. We've got all the black entertainment news from the week that…
December 1, 2010
SLIDESHOW - Inspired by Lil' Kim's recent clash with Nicki Minaj, we take a look back at some of the…
November 17, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - It will tell of Common's childhood in the South Side of Chicago and his entertainment career,…
October 27, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) - The event is free, but campaign officials say those wishing to attend should RSVP...
October 18, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z, Nas, Gang Starr and Common share this in common: They've all sampled recordings by jazz…
August 26, 2010
REVIEW - The importance of this film and the main reason you should watch extends beyond the history and the…
August 2, 2010
CLUTCH - Common's character Elam is a half black, half white man who comes to the West to work on…
July 15, 2010
It's a cover album of soulful political, social and war-protest songs from the 1960s and '70s, attempting to summon the…