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September 14, 2011
OPINION - Because the administration rarely communicates its outreach or the president's sentiments about African-Americans in public, they are often…
September 14, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - More than half of the nearly $450 billion plan Obama sent to Congress last week is…
September 14, 2011
OPINION - The increasing number of blacks falling into poverty and out of the middle class means we are not…
September 13, 2011
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK - This was a President Obama like the one the country saw during the campaign to push the…
September 13, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - In advance of the larger roundtable that the White House convened today, theGrio was able to speak…
September 12, 2011
NIGHTLY NEWS - Brian Williams asked Obama about African-American sentiment towards the unemployment rate and whether or not he has…
September 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - At the same time, the Democratic National Committee is backing up the effort with a new ad…
September 12, 2011
OPINION - Most Americans are regular, fed up folks, and many are wondering if Washington is capable of doing anything…
September 10, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - President Barack Obama's jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with…
September 10, 2011
OPINION - It still remains to be seen if those soaring words can in fact produce jobs for the 14…
September 9, 2011
The White House continued on Friday to insist that it wants the President's new jobs bill to be considered as…
September 9, 2011
OPINION - Perhaps the president's African-American critics expect too much when they demand that he explicitly mention black unemployment...
September 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama, looking to jolt both the U.S. economy and his presidency, proposed a $447 billion plan…
September 8, 2011
theGRIO LIVE CHAT -
September 8, 2011
OPINION - Unemployment rates for African-Americans are now the highest it has been since President Obama took office, and the…
September 8, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - There is still hope in the black community the speech will not continue the Obama administration theory,…
September 7, 2011
MIAMI - The protest was organized by 1Miami, a jobs-focused coalition that simulated a soup line in contrast to the…
September 6, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders are offering President Barack Obama an opening for compromise on measures that would spur…
September 6, 2011
NBC NEWS - After the bruising debt-ceiling fight -- as well as Standard & Poor's subsequent downgrade of the nation's…
September 6, 2011
OPINION - What people are learning is that dire circumstances require aggressive action and new ways of thinking...