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February 10, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading Republican senator said Sunday he would hold up Senate confirmation of President Barack Obama's nominees…
January 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The awkward tension between incumbent New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg and the upstart Newark mayor, Cory Booker,…
January 10, 2013
BOSTON (AP) - Liberal groups have launched twin online petitions aimed at pressuring Gov. Deval Patrick to temporarily name former…
December 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Lautenberg, one of the Senate's most outspoken gun control advocates, expressed his outrage via Twitter when LaPierre…
December 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Yesterday’s announcement changed all that and left a lot of local Democrats and Booker supporters disappointed as…
December 18, 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - To U.S. Rep. Tim Scott, keeping his modest upbringing in the front of his mind has…
December 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Tim Scott, a Republican, is expected to be appointed Monday to the U.S. Senate seat that…
December 6, 2012
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a favorite among tea party activists, said Thursday he was resigning…
November 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is meeting with key lawmakers in what could be her final pitch for…
November 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The 41-year-old senator professes his love for hip-hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa, N.W.A., Tupac Shakur, and most…
January 9, 2012
OPINION - Was Rick Santorum really a 'champion' of black colleges while he was a senator representing Pennyslvania?...
August 19, 2011
OPINION - Warm and fuzz feelings aside, sometimes one friend has to let the other friend know that they've gotten…
June 17, 2011
Texas senator Chris Harris asks 'Why Aren't You Speaking English?' to naturalized immigration rights representative while he presented his side…
July 26, 2010
OPINION - This must be a misprint I thought -- no sitting Democratic U.S. Senator with a black population of…
June 15, 2010
The poll also finds 62 percent of likely voters giving DeMint a favorable rating, with 25% unfavorable, compared to a…
April 21, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Michael Thurmond is one of the most prominent black Democrats in a state that has increasingly voted…
January 8, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The storm decimated once-thriving black, middle-class neighborhoods, undercutting efforts by black candidates to raise money and…
December 11, 2009
Congressional Black Caucus got $4 billion added to a Wall Street regulation bill and $2 billion to a proposed House…
October 28, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is hailing Edward Brooke, who made history 43 years ago as the first black…