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Setting the record straight with Heather Ellis

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

8:30 AM on 11/23/2009

OPINION - This week, for the first time, I had the chance to speak with Heather Ellis...

'Fela' brings Nigeria to Broadway

By Sonia Narang

8:04 AM on 11/23/2009

VIDEO - Walk into the Eugene O'Neill Theater in New York City, and you'll see it's decked out in African masks, revolutionary murals, disco balls, a map of Africa...

Dems determined to push through health care reform

By theGrio

7:53 AM on 11/23/2009

VIDEO - A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the "system is broken"...

Stress of racism can cause premature births for black moms

By Dr. Janet Taylor

7:42 AM on 11/23/2009

OPINION - Being black in America is bad for a woman's health. Why? Chronic racism over the lifetime of African-American women affects their birth outcomes...

Oprah is going out on her 'OWN'

By Ronda Racha Penrice

7:17 AM on 11/23/2009

OPINION - Now she's got an entire network to program and only one thing is certain: only Oprah can trump Oprah...

11/23/09 - theGrio & CNBC Market Preview

By Shartia Brantley

6:00 AM on 11/23/2009

VIDEO - TheGrio and CNBC team up to deliver a weekly preview of money matters and market updates for our community...

Why lighter skin is an international obsession

By Karl Bostic

5:53 AM on 11/23/2009

VIDEO - As shocking as the pictures of a new, lighter Sammy Sosa may be, the popularity and use of skin lightening creams in Europe is no surprise...

As health care talk continues, some spring to action

By Rani G Whitfield

12:16 PM on 11/22/2009

OPINION - The lack of care that people experience has a price that we all must share beyond the price that they pay with their lives..

KKK rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game

By theGrio

5:20 AM on 11/22/2009

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU...

11/20/09 - theGrio & CNBC Market Wrap Up

By Shartia Brantley

5:16 PM on 11/20/2009

VIDEO - TheGrio and CNBC team up to deliver a weekly preview of money matters and market updates for our community...

Boy rescued from inside chimney

By theGrio

1:29 PM on 11/20/2009

VIDEO - Move over balloon boy. A teen in Jackson, Mississippi has provided new drama. But this was no hoax...

Thousands may file legal action for Katrina floods

By theGrio

1:28 PM on 11/20/2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billions of dollars in legal action from thousands of storm victims...

Senator Roland Burris is scolded for 'misleading' statements

By theGrio

12:03 PM on 11/20/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. "Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished a Democratic senator for making "inconsistent, misleading or incomplete" statements...

Burr Oak Cemetery reopens four months after scandal

By theGrio

10:54 AM on 11/20/2009

ALSIP, Illinois (AP) - A historic black cemetery, shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots, is open again...

'The Blind Side' an obvious appeal to white guilt

By Christopher Chambers

8:52 AM on 11/20/2009

OPINION - First is the buzz over Hollywood's usual alternative to the raw black pathology selling "Precious:" the "feel good" paradigm for portraying African-American woes...

Jesse Jackson's race-baiting is doing the president no favor

By Javier E. David

8:40 AM on 11/20/2009

OPINION - Recent remarks made by Rev. Jesse Jackson not only have a chilling effect on public discourse, they also undermine the concept...

Man charged with raping and killing Shaniya Davis

By theGrio

8:20 AM on 11/20/2009

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was expected in court Friday, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days...

Should push for mandatory paternity tests be abandoned?

By David A. Love

8:00 AM on 11/20/2009

OPINION - Creative solutions are required for the serious crisis of absent fathers. The issue of mandatory paternity testing helps to shine a light on the problem, but it will take more than a DNA result to make better fathers.

Oprah pulling the plug on her show

By theGrio

8:57 PM on 11/19/2009

CHICAGO (AP) -- "The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end...