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June 22, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States has not overcome its history of racism and is using…
June 2, 2015
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Against a backdrop of exclusive, sea-view apartments in Cape Town, South African and American…
May 22, 2015
Can you think of a better way for a black man to spend Memorial Day than to burn a Confederate
April 28, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Viola Davis will reportedly be playing Harriet Tubman in an upcoming HBO biopic...
April 24, 2015
OPINION - Where have all the brothers gone? The numbers are staggering. According to a report in The New York…
April 22, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — PBS is conducting an internal review following revelations that producers of “Finding Your Roots” may have
April 16, 2015
Is the policing of black men the new sport for white officers and wannabe cops? This is a question worth
March 30, 2015
College or prison: which is more important? In 16 states in the land of the free, the answer is prison.
March 26, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Chiddi Stober was just doing his job, working part-time as an Uber driver, when a passenger refused…
March 19, 2015
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on the Internet, you’ve seen it – someone, somewhere opining about how
March 19, 2015
The U.S. economy is rebounding, the stock market is thriving, and unemployment is down to levels not seen since the
March 1, 2015
Opinion - For forty years the United States has hidden the consequence of its dark racial history at the center…
February 20, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A group called Virginia Flaggers is looking to find land on which they can fly Confederate flags…
February 11, 2015
A North Carolina resident asked Steve Harvey during a segment of the Steve Harvey Show called “Ask Steve” how to respond to
February 1, 2015
theGrio REPORT - January 31st marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
November 1, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homes of slaves who served President James Madison at his Montpelier estate in Virginia will be rebuilt
October 29, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A routine social studies class in a Chicago suburb turned ugly for some middle school students this…
October 13, 2014
Happy Columbus Day?  What is there to celebrate?  And how about Happy Indigenous People’s Day instead? With Columbus Day upon
October 2, 2014
OPINION - Large-scale student protests and “teacher sick-out” school closures have recently thrust into the spotlight the school board of…
September 15, 2014
If it can be said that real men don’t hit women, then we should also say real men don’t beat