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January 4, 2011

Why GOP probes of Obama could suppress the black vote

OPINION - Republicans are making Obama their 'whipping boy' and perpetuating the voter fraud myth for two reasons...
January 4, 2011

Obama to sign bill to improve nation’s food safety

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress passed the bill at the end of last year to respond to several serious outbreaks of…
January 4, 2011

How health care repeal could backfire on blacks

OPINION - It's a fight that African-Americans, who remain the most needy when it comes to getting affordable health care,…
January 3, 2011

Is Obama better at being the underdog?

OPINION - As the economy recovers over the next year, the president can be well-positioned to take credit for the…
January 1, 2011

Obama: Parties must cooperate in new year

HONOLULU (AP) - Obama said his New Year's resolution is to do everything he can to grow the economy, create…
December 29, 2010

Bills, bills, bills! Rangel creates legal defense fund

WASHINGTON (AP) - The New York Democrat still owes money to his former lawyers, who represented him in an ethics…
December 28, 2010

Alvin Greene files to run for open SC House seat

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Greene said Monday he would wait to see who else filed before commenting on the race.…
December 26, 2010

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says ‘everyone has erred’

CHICAGO (AP) - Jackson has been dogged by links to the corruption case against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and…
December 22, 2010

How Barack Obama got his groove back

OPINION - The current legislative has produced what might be Obama's two best political weeks in as many years...
December 17, 2010

Washington post office named after Dorothy Height

CLUTCH - Height, who passed away this past April at the age of 98, was one of the most significant…
December 17, 2010

Obama's tax cut compromise passes final hurdle

WASHINGTON (AP) - The measure would extend tax cuts for families at every income level, renew jobless benefits for the…
December 15, 2010

House votes to repeal ban on open gays in military

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House, in introducing the stand-alone bill, sought to avoid the complications of combining it with a…
December 9, 2010

Tim Scott: Blacks vote Democratic because of past, not future

theGRIO Q&A - Scott has made headlines because he is the first black Republican elected to Congress from South Carolina…
December 7, 2010

Rep. Waters wants ethics committee investigated

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Maxine Waters will ask the House to investigate the ethics committee's decision to place two of…
December 7, 2010

Obama defends tax deal, says he's kept promises

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama called the news conference in the face of Democratic criticism of the agreement, which still needs…
December 3, 2010

Black students bear brunt of corporal punishment in schools

theGRIO REPORT - Twenty states still allow schools to administer corporal punishment and some don't require parental consent or notification...
December 2, 2010

Congress sends child nutrition bill to Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) - The first lady said in a statement after the vote that she was "thrilled" about House passage...
December 2, 2010

Rangel censured by Congress in landslide vote

WASHINGTON (AP) - "I brought it onto myself," Rangel told the House. But he also said politics was at work...
December 1, 2010

2 million to lose jobless benefits as holidays arrive

(AP) - Unless Congress changes its mind, benefits that had been extended up to 99 weeks will end this month...
December 1, 2010

First lady's school lunches initiative up for House vote

WASHINGTON (AP) - Greasy foods and sugary soft drinks could disappear from schools as Congress is poised to approve a…