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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 - Booker, who is now in his second term as mayor, is focused on finishing up his tenure…
December 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye showed him 'what might be possible in…
December 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Yesterday’s announcement changed all that and left a lot of local Democrats and Booker supporters disappointed as…
December 20, 2012
ANALYSIS - Today he made the obvious, safe choice that most preserves his options for the future, including a potential…
December 20, 2012
NBC NEW YORK - Newark Mayor Cory Booker will not challenge New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year's gubernatorial…
December 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT-The appointment of Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina to the Senate and the likely candidacy of Newark Mayor…
December 18, 2012
OPINION - The evidence suggests Senator Scott will be useful to Republicans, but only up to a point...
December 17, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Rep. Tim Scott, a Republican, is expected to be appointed Monday to the U.S. Senate seat that…
December 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Since arriving on the Hill, the sophomore representative has toed the staunch Tea Party line, including voting…
December 10, 2012
OPINION - Would a Senator Tim Scott be a good thing for black people? Maybe not so much. But let’s…
October 14, 2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - For most of his 30 years as Pennsylvania's longest-serving U.S. senator and prominent moderate in Congress,…
September 28, 2012
The United States Senate will remain without any black representative for some years to come...
August 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In a recent interview with HuffPost Live, Rev. Jesse Jackson opened up about his son, Rep. Jesse…
December 12, 2011
A U.S. Senate panel will hold a hearing in January on a Florida voting reform law that Democrats say will…
October 25, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The 23-year-old Bell was killed and two friends seriously injured outside a topless bar where police…
July 7, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Some of Alvin Greene's comments have done more than raise a few eyebrows. Here's theGrio Top 10…
July 1, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Preval also declined to answer questions about another U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report that criticizes…
June 17, 2010
Alvin Greene affirms that he is "the best candidate for the United States Senate in South Carolina"...