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July 29, 2025

What is the ‘price of being Black in suburbia?’ Ask those who have had to pay it 

TikTok users have been documenting the price of growing up Black in predominantly white suburban neighborhoods.
December 21, 2015

President Obama: Donald Trump exploiting 'fear' of working class men

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama, in a broadside against the leading Republican presidential candidate, says billionaire Donald Trump is…
January 21, 2015

Pres. Obama's SOTU address reminds us why he won 'both' times

On Tuesday evening, the confident, populist Barack Obama of 2008 — if not 2004 — showed up for his sixth
January 4, 2015

GOP who? President Obama plans to look past obstructionists in 2015

HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama plans new steps to help middle-income Americans, part of a 2015 agenda he hopes
July 30, 2013

Obama turning into Mr. Middle Class

ANALYSIS - Obama increasingly sounds obsessed with making sure expanding the middle class, lifting Americans from stagnant wages and reducing…
September 14, 2012

Romney says ‘middle-income’ $250k and below

BOSTON (AP) - Mitt Romney is promising to reduce taxes on middle-income Americans...
August 11, 2012

Obama team: Romney, Ryan would hurt middle class

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign says Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate…
July 9, 2012

Obama to push extension of middle-class tax cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, as he…
June 12, 2012

19th Century middle class black household excavated by archaeologists

theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave…
February 13, 2012

Race and Beyond: are Americans in denial about inequality?

OPINION - In an odd, roundabout way, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has given Americans an opportunity to witness what…
December 8, 2011

Census: Widening income gap as blacks leave cities

WASHINGTON (AP) - Affluent black Americans who are leaving industrial cities for the suburbs and the South are shifting traditional…
August 3, 2011

'Moving on up' isn't what it used to be for black families

OPINION - According to new analysis of census data, the most successful blacks and Latinos are more likely to have…
July 29, 2011

Researchers unearth remants of black village at Central Park

NEW YORK - Remnants of an entire black community pushed out by the creation of Central Park in the 1850s…
July 12, 2011

Black families see bigger loss of income in recession

VIDEO - Most Americans have felt the sting of the recent economic depression, however no group has felt the massive…
July 11, 2011

Black economic gains reversed in Great Recession

BALTIMORE (AP) - For the black community, where unemployment continues to rise, job loss has knocked them out of the…
December 14, 2010

Black segregation in US drops to lowest in century

WASHINGTON (AP) - America's neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century as…