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theGRIO VIDEO - In a wide-ranging interview with Chris Witherspoon for MSNBC.com, T.I. weighed in on some of the criticism…
theGRIO REPORT - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis recently performed in their hometown of Seattle, Washington over the weekend, but the…
theGRIO REPORT - Young, black men at Central High School in Champaign, Ill., are cunning, clever and cool - and…
theGRIO Q&A - With 'Afraid of Dark', documentary filmmaker Mya B. says she hopes to make real the lives of…
VIDEO - From Sean Bell to Oscar Grant to Jordan Davis. There is a long history in this country of…
OPINION - Child star Shirley Temple Black’s on-screen relationship with tap dance master Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson is one of her…
OPINION - Fass is nothing more than a synonym for whore. Nothing more than a polite calling card, a proverbial…
ANALYSIS - The proxy war for a host of racial agendas has a new rallying call. It is ‘the knockout…
theGRIO REPORT - A controversial British documentary claiming to showcase 'all things Jamaican' has come under fire...
OPINION - The endless controversies over black movies have gotten to the point where movies won’t get made, or won’t…
OPINION - It is a catastrophe that violent rap imagery has become the dominant portrait of African-American masculinity, and that…
ESSAY - We may never be able to debunk the myth of the Angry Black Woman -- but we can…
OPINIION - For many Americans any question about welfare and the economy is really a question about race..
OPINION - Within the past week alone we’ve seen several examples of corporations apologizing for racist imagery, including a controversial…
OPINION - I can’t help but wonder, that if the Tsarnaev brothers were black, particularly the elder, Tamerlane, could he…
OPINION - Meet four women who are making a difference in starting intelligent conversations around the genre of reality TV…
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (AP) - The North Chicago Police Department is being criticized for a brochure that some say is…
OPINION - Unfortunately, America has spun itself into a “cloud on a sunny day” and stirred a cup of blinded…
theGRIO REPORT - Sandra Appiah is on a mission. The 23-year-old wants to rebrand Africa and alter skewed perceptions of…
OPINION - The onus is on the viewers to help shape the type of programming that we’re being sold and…