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May 4, 2020

Michael Jordan talks infamous comment ‘Republicans buy sneakers too’

Last night’s installment of the ESPN 'Last Dance' doc, Michael Jordan clear up a statement attributed to the star: “Republicans…
September 6, 2012

Obama on shoulders of men like Charlotte's Harvey Gantt

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - For all of his firsts — first black student admitted to an all-white South Carolina college,…
May 8, 2012

North Carolina bans gay marriage over objections of 'disappointed' Obama, civil rights advocates

theGRIO REPORT - An expansive constitutional amendment that could bar not only gay marriage but any kind of domestic partnership…
July 23, 2010

Slideshow: Political scapegoats ‘thrown under the bus’

SLIDESHOW - Many of these individuals were caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time, and served as…
October 27, 2009

Museum named in honor of Charlotte’s first black mayor

VIDEO - With the opening of the Harvey Gantt Museum in Charlotte, a page of history is turned by a…