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June 30, 2010
VIDEO - Bill Cosby has even expanded into social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter. He credits his wife…
June 28, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - YouTube has now become a place where African-American women are chronicling their journey to go back to…
May 19, 2010
THE GRIO REPORT - Jet's entry into a growing Internet world should add to, rather than subtract from, the opportunities…
May 7, 2010
In ways more surprising to Internet analysts than to black Americans, Twitter taps into our historical experience of making more…
May 6, 2010
OPINION - Sadly, a network connection only allows students to perfect their racism, with high-tech anonymity in some cases, and…
April 16, 2010
VIDEO - "I am not a political animal," says Michelle. "I think the whole arena of politics cuts against the…
April 2, 2010
Instead of telling you the obvious people you should follow, celebrities and other notable people, we want to show you…
March 19, 2010
theGrio recently caught up with Townsend to discuss his newest project and to determine whether Hollywood is still doing the…
March 15, 2010
Most women know it's hard to find love, but black women specifically may be looking in all the wrong places...
February 24, 2010
They're also politically active, embrace diversity and are not as financially dependent on mom and dad...
February 7, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Contemporary media has caught up to Roland S. Martin, not the other way around...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - Gossip is big business and few know that better than MediaTakeOut.com founder Fred Mwangaguhunga...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - To look at the her career, you'd think Mara Schiavocampo had a crystal ball for the past…
December 24, 2009
From the deserts of Libya to the plains of Tanzania Facebook is fast becoming the continent's most visited mobile site…
November 19, 2009
FROM BBC> When singer Lou Jing entered the Chinese TV talent show Go Oriental Angel she was proud to be
October 13, 2009
OPINION - African-American youth are not receiving the tools to critically analyze the information and media messages with which they…
September 28, 2009
OPINION - Ebony Magazine had become the Black Pope of American media: Well respected, but not taken seriously. The cold,…
September 15, 2009
OPINION - After the MTV Video Music Awards, Twitter erupted into a cesspool of racism. Racism hasn't gone away, it…
September 2, 2009
OPINION - Whatever ever happened to MySpace? It used to be such a nice online community--until "they" started logging on…
August 7, 2009
Ferman Fletcher is a full-time carpenter dreaming of a life in music. But this resident of Washington, D.C. never thought