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8/24/09 - theGrio & CNBC Market Preview

By Shartia Brantley

5:30 AM on 08/24/2009

The Grio and CNBC team up to deliver a weekly preview of money matters and market updates for our community.

Martha's Vineyard is the epicenter of black elitism

By Talia Whyte

12:10 AM on 08/24/2009

OPINION -- Martha's Vineyard has been abuzz over the last few weeks due to the arrival of President Obama and his family onto the island for some rest and relaxation...

Martha's Vineyard is rooted in black history

By Roland Laird

2:22 PM on 08/22/2009

OPINION - While on the Vineyard, you're just as likely to bump into a New York City office security guard as you are Spike Lee, and more importantly you'd probably have a friendly conversation with both of them...

Obama's possible visit highlights bond with Sen. Kennedy

By theGrio via AP

1:09 PM on 08/22/2009

BOSTON (AP) -- When Barack Obama's presidential prospects sagged, Sen. Edward Kennedy lifted the candidate with a coveted endorsement. When brain cancer kept...

8/21/09 - theGrio & CNBC Market Wrap Up

By Shartia Brantley

6:00 PM on 08/21/2009

TheGrio.com and CNBC team up to deliver a weekly review of money matters and market updates.

72 years and counting for Florida couple

By theGrio

5:27 PM on 08/21/2009

VIDEO -- They were married in 1937 and have been together ever since. He's 96, and his bride is only 91...

First black NFL official dies at 81

By theGrio via AP

1:55 PM on 08/21/2009

CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Burl Toler, the first African-American official in NFL history who went on to work one Super Bowl in a distinguished career, has died. He was 81...

Female boxers will get a chance at Olympic gold

By theGrio

12:38 PM on 08/21/2009

For anyone who doubts a woman can hit or ever score a knockout punch, look no further than these women. Some are college students on scholarship and they all fight to win.

More drama from the running world

By theGrio

12:32 PM on 08/21/2009

MVP track club of Kingston takes another gold medal at the IAAF world track and field championships in Berlin! We need your help! Click here to sign up with a group that allows you to have a voice in the design of online and broadcast media. Then tell us how...

Kid entrepreneurs grow food for hungry families

By theGrio

11:58 AM on 08/21/2009

VIDEO -- In a neighborhood where 86 percent of the residents live at or below the poverty line, some of the older kids at the Boys and Girls Club in Palm Beach County wanted to earn money.

'Passing Strange': from stage to the big screen

By Nazenet Habtezghi

11:01 AM on 08/21/2009

From Essence.com: From concert to musical and now film, "Passing Strange" is like no other performance. The highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical Broadway rock musical is about a young Black musician who rebels against his middle-class upbringing in search of his personal and artistic identity. In the hands of über-director Spike Lee,...

Naked man arrested for assault on plane

By theGrio

9:01 AM on 08/21/2009

VIDEO -- Authorities say a flight was forced to return to Oakland International Airport after a male passenger stripped, hit another passenger and fought with crew members.

Obama woos right and left in defense of health care reform

By theGrio via AP

8:41 AM on 08/21/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama pitched his ambitious plan to both conservative talk radio and his own liberal supporters

Race has everything to do with it

By Marguerite Hattouni Spencer

8:35 AM on 08/21/2009

This is not the time to avoid race or view it as a distraction. Nor is it the time to tinker with opportunity barriers. Rather, it is the time to transform American institutions

Poll: Americans losing confidence in Obama

By theGrio via AP

8:01 AM on 08/21/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new poll says that Americans, concerned over the future of health care reform and anxious about the growing federal budget deficit, are losing faith in President Barack Obama.

Burress' teammates saddened by plea deal

By theGrio via AP

3:24 PM on 08/20/2009

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Plaxico Burress' decision to plead guilty to a weapons charge and accept two years in prison surprised his former New York Giants teammates

2 teenagers charged as adults in hate crime against elderly black fisherman

By theGrio via AP

2:39 PM on 08/20/2009

Two teenagers were arrested Thursday and charged as adults in what police say was the racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.

Same-sex couples stage 'kiss-in' to protest treatment at diner

By theGrio

12:15 PM on 08/20/2009

VIDEO - Dozens of same-sex couples locked lips inside a popular Maryland diner Wednesday to protest the treatment of a lesbian couple there.

Burress pleads guilty in weapons case, will serve 2 years

By theGrio via AP

10:43 AM on 08/20/2009

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former New York Giant Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and agreed to a two-year prison term for accidentally shooting himself at a Manhattan nightclub.

Track star's father: 'She is a woman and I can repeat it a million times'

By theGrio via AP

9:40 AM on 08/20/2009

BERLIN (AP) -- A day after winning her first 800-meter world title amid a gender-test controversy, the father of a South African teenager dismissed speculation his daughter is not a woman.

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