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April 8, 2011

Do teenage girls drive the 'sexting' culture?

theGRIO REPORT - Sixteen-year-old Dewayne never asks teen girls at his Bronx high school to send him naughty pictures. But…
March 14, 2011

Is social media showing off Palin's prejudice?

OPINION - Palin's objectionable, even idiotic tweets has shoved her public stock even further downhill...
March 14, 2011

Tone deaf tweeting: 50 jokes about Japan tragedy

OPINION - It seems every time we want to give 50 Cent a chance, the rapper reminds us why that…
March 2, 2011

Is Charlie Sheen a new hip-hop icon?

OPINION - Sheen has dropped an abundance of quotes that if set to a great beat could easily become a…
March 1, 2011

Rihanna and Ciara tweet beef: Are we addicted to drama?

OPINION - Hyped up mostly by Twitter users than the singers themselves, the two divas quickly became trending topics, and…
February 25, 2011

Madame Noire: Tattoos to avoid by all means necessary

When people tell me they want a new tattoo but aren't sure of what to get, I always want to…
February 24, 2011

Why Kanye’s ‘abortion tweet’ was ill-conceived

OPINION - Thanks to much of the popular mainstream media, we see abortion as primarily the battleground for white women...
February 22, 2011

Will Africa’s next uprising be in Cameroon?

theGRIO REPORT - Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for decades and is grappling with a high youth…
February 10, 2011

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s cancer at a ‘minimum’

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The 63-year-old Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in…
February 10, 2011

Mark Buehrle on Michael Vick: My wife and I hoped he would get injured

In a story posted by Scott Merkin on MLB.com, Buehrle and his wife Jamie explained that they are dog lovers…
February 7, 2011

Pea’s Will.i.am says cell service stopped tweets

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - His Twitter handle was silent until after the game, when he sent out a series of…
February 2, 2011

TheGrio’s 100: Gabi Gregg, tweeting her way into MTV history

TheGrio's 100 - More than 26,000 people tune in to Gabi Gregg's tweets about behind-the-scenes life at MTV...
February 1, 2011

GOP efforts to redefine ‘forcible rape’ put women in peril

OPINION - If enacted, the bill threatens to deny due health care to untold numbers of rape victims, with poor…
February 1, 2011

TheGrio’s 100: Shaun King, leveraging social media for greater good

TheGrio's 100 - With TwitChange.com, Shaun King leveraged Twitter to address the Haitian earthquake's aftermath...
January 25, 2011

Black models hailed as fashion revolutionaries

CLUTCH - While there were African-American models at the time, they were seen as rare and exotic...
January 24, 2011

50 Cent takes credit for shutting down Worldstarhiphop.com

Just moments ago, 50 Cent took to Twitter and took credit for the site's disruption, squashing rumors that the site…
January 24, 2011

Kanye on Twitter: ‘Watch the Throne’ coming in March, plus another new album this summer

Kanye West has big plans for 2011. This weekend, he took to Twitter to announce a timeframe for three upcoming…
January 24, 2011

NBA stars could be caught with their pants down on Twitter

OPINION - If the allegations surrounding Lance Stephenson are true, he is anything but ready for the temptations of NBA…
January 18, 2011

Why doesn’t anyone get Kanye West’s jokes?

He's not a stand-up comic and he doesn't star in a sitcom, but does that mean our collective device for…
January 14, 2011

Black lingo sets the trend on Twitter

OPINION - As a group, African-Americans have a firm grasp on the way Twitter works, and we influence the overall…