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White supremacist indicted in museum shooting

2:54 PM on 07/29/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted the white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Gates 911 caller regrets racial controversy

By theGrio via AP

12:31 PM on 07/29/2009

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) -- The woman who called police to report a possible break-in at the home of prominent black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Wednesday she was pained to be wrongly labeled a racist based on words she never said and hoped the recently released recording of the call would put the controversy to rest.

Teen goes straight to the top with letter to Obama

By theGrio

12:15 PM on 07/29/2009

Brandon Sawyer, 13, of Middletown, OH got the surprise of his life when he opened his mailbox yesterday. It contained a letter from President Barack Obama.

Buffalo Soldiers identified, reburied with honors

By theGrio

10:48 AM on 07/29/2009

VIDEO - Three members of the famed post-Civil War-era Buffalo Soldiers, whose remains were disinterred during a federal grave-looting investigation two years ago, were given full military honors and reburied Tuesday at a national cemetery.

Glenn Beck: I believe Obama is a racist

By theGrio

10:20 AM on 07/29/2009

VIDEO - Fox News Channel commentator Glenn Beck said he believes President Barack Obama is a racist. He said Obama has exposed himself as a person with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture...

NYC official calls Gates racist, resigns

By theGrio via AP

9:32 AM on 07/29/2009

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City government aide has resigned after posting controversial Facebook comments about the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Young black voters came out for Obama, but may not return

By G'Ra Asim

8:12 AM on 07/29/2009

During last year's presidential campaign, the second-most talked about aspect of Barack Obama's historic candidacy was the fervor with which he was widely embraced among young people. His popularity with Generation Y, and particularly voters ages 18-24, was at least as attributable to the tech-savvy infrastructure of his campaign and...

Cemetery desecration unearths mother's pain

By theGrio via AP

8:04 AM on 07/29/2009

Before this month, Jacqui Abrams had visited Burr Oak Cemetery only nine times -- once for each of her relatives buried at the historic black graveyard in suburban Chicago.

Space camp teaches kids to reach for stars

By theGrio

8:01 AM on 07/29/2009

On any given day, inner city youngsters explore the universe from their own space station and mission control in Inglewood, California. These are students at the A-Man International Science Discovery and Learning Center, and they just may one day lead the next generation of space exploration. "When I walk through...

Deaf man tasered by police

By theGrio

7:45 PM on 07/28/2009

Officers who used pepper spray and a Taser to remove a man from a store bathroom found out only later he was deaf and mentally disabled and didn't understand they wanted him to open the door, police said Tuesday...

Houston fire captain apologizes for noose in locker

By theGrio

6:20 PM on 07/28/2009

A senior Houston firefighter apologized Monday for keeping a rope that looked like hangman's noose in his locker, saying it was a memento from early in his career and not meant as a racist symbol...

MLK statue defaced

By theGrio

4:14 PM on 07/28/2009

The statue of America's foremost civil rights leader -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- has been defaced, painted white. Now Hollywood police are trying to determine whether this case is a hate crime or just vandalism. A homeless man reported seeing three teens tagging the doorways of nearby businesses,...

Brewski diplomacy won't wash down racism

By Rashod D. Ollison

12:59 PM on 07/28/2009

Unemployment among African Americans, which some may partly attribute to racism, is now at Depression-era levels. Racial profiling and police brutality continue to be routine occurrences in poor communities of color. Yet mainstream media tell us we're in a "post-racial America" following the election of the country's first black president....

Senate Judiciary Committee approves Sotomayor

By theGrio via AP

12:25 PM on 07/28/2009

The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice...

Cries of reverse discrimination build to a chorus

By The Network Journal

12:05 PM on 07/28/2009

From tnj.com: A black president tabs a Latina for the Supreme Court. She had made a ruling against white firefighters. That ruling gets reversed by her prospective high-court colleagues. It was pretty easy to guess what would come up in her confirmation hearings. America, it seems, isn't over race after...

Wyclef on Haiti and how music saved his life

By Tony Anderson

11:24 AM on 07/28/2009

Wyclef Jean, best known as a Grammy Winning artist who has sold over 50 million records and toured the world both with The Fugees and as a solo artist, has a lesser-known side...

Michelle's style puts Chicago on fashion forefront

By theGrio via AP

11:18 AM on 07/28/2009

CHICAGO (AP) -- In Michelle Obama's hometown, working women hustle back and forth from home to the office in stylish shoes they can walk fast and far in. They wear chic but commonsense coats that keep them warm in the winters -- and those famous sleeveless tops favored by the first lady in the summer.

theGrio Reflects: The 14th Amendment is adopted

By theGrio

11:06 AM on 07/28/2009

On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving blacks full citizenship and the right to vote...

Haitian boat capsizes, 113 saved, 85 missing

By theGrio via AP

10:44 AM on 07/28/2009

An overloaded sailboat carrying Haitian migrants sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and as many as 85 people are missing, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.

Atlanta to be first major city to demolish large housing projects

By theGrio via AP

10:21 AM on 07/28/2009

The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta -- home of the first public housing development -- the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects. Cities from Boston to Los Angeles are following its lead...

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