Poverty

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March 24, 2010
The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began…
March 11, 2010
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they'll…
February 22, 2010
Leona Lewis is auctioning off a night of her company to raise money for the Haiti aid appeal...
January 19, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Scholar and activist Cornel West invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday...
January 12, 2010
A Washington lawmaker wants to replace euphemisms like "disadvantaged" and "at-risk" with a new one, "at hope"...
November 29, 2009
OPINION - Should we really set aside just one or two days a year to prove ourselves grateful and thankful,…
November 1, 2009
OPINION - Financial freedom is one of the keys to psychological, spiritual and political freedom - they are all inextricably…
September 20, 2009
VIDEO -- Watch MSNBC's telecast "About Our Children," featuring Bill Cosby and moderated by Independent Women's Forum president and MSNBC…
September 20, 2009
OPINION -- Fifty-four years ago, the late Thurgood Marshall via the Brown v. Board of Education decision, affirmed one of…
August 31, 2009
VIDEO -- Last month we covered a story of an 87-year old woman living in a one-room shack in rural…
August 12, 2009
VIDEO - TheGrio has an update concerning 87-year-old Ester Davis of Lena. We first showed you that Ms. Davis is…
July 31, 2009
An 87-year-old woman, living alone, in a 160-year-old shack about three miles south of Lena, Mississippi says she has no
July 28, 2009
The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta -- home of the first public housing development…
June 16, 2009
On June 20, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and other activists are hoping to draw as many as 50,000 people...