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Tea Party leader on Obama: 'Our half white, racist president'

By theGrio

5:58 PM on 02/23/2010

A top Tea Party leader derided Barack Obama as "our half white, racist president" in an email to colleagues...

Reid seeks extension of jobless aid until end of 2010

By theGrio

5:40 PM on 02/23/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December...

Eagles release RB Westbrook after 8 seasons

By theGrio

5:34 PM on 02/23/2010

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Brian Westbrook was released Tuesday by the Philadelphia Eagles, ending an often-dynamic eight-year run that was marred by various injuries...

Afro-centric brides on parade

By theGrio

5:16 PM on 02/23/2010

From The Local - Brooklyn, NY - The ceremony started with a bang as the drum processional proceeded down St. James Place, onto Lafayette Avenue and through the doors of the church...

Rep. Clyburn denounces Rep. King for IRS attack excuses

By theGrio

4:32 PM on 02/23/2010

James Clyburn took to the House floor on Tuesday to denounce a fellow member of Congress for making excuses for the terrorist attack on the IRS building in Texas...

Legendary Gamble and Huff studio spared in office fire

By theGrio

3:45 PM on 02/23/2010

The studio, where Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, and other stars once recorded their hits, was undamaged despite having walls covered in the original orange shag carpet..

Tiger apologizes to parents at daughter's preschool

By theGrio

3:39 PM on 02/23/2010

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Tiger Woods has offered another apology, this time to parents of children at the preschool that his 2-year-old daughter attends...

Jay-Z: I created the 'Single Ladies' dance

By theGrio

3:14 PM on 02/23/2010

Jay-Z is known for being extremely tight-lipped about his relationship with wife Beyonce Knowles, but he took some time to joke about it on BBC's 'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.'...

Tavis Smiley vs. Al Sharpton: 'Is there a need for a black agenda?'

By theGrio

2:41 PM on 02/23/2010

Tavis Smiley confronted the question "Is there a need for a Black Agenda?" and announced the symposium on the Tom Joyner morning show...

Obama: repeal health insurers antitrust exemption

By theGrio

2:25 PM on 02/23/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to strip health insurers of their decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws...

Ole Miss to vote on Colonel Reb mascot replacement

By theGrio

12:35 PM on 02/23/2010

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Students at the University of Mississippi vote Tuesday on whether to replace their American football team mascot Colonel Reb -- a caricature of a white plantation owner...

Jayson Williams gets minimum 18 months in shooting

By theGrio

11:25 AM on 02/23/2010

SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - Former NBA star Jayson Williams has been sentenced to a minimum 18 months in prison for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey...

Fashion to follow: 15 top twitter feeds

By theGrio

10:39 AM on 02/23/2010

From Clutch Magazine - SLIDESHOW - If there is any industry that has dominated Twitter's public timeline, it is the world of fashion. Clutch's Fashion Contributors offer the top 15 to follow...

Orphanage director: Haiti holds 6 US-bound kids

By theGrio

10:20 AM on 02/23/2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE(AP) - Six U.S.-bound orphans seized by Haitian police despite having their papers in order remained in a government-run nursery more than two days later...

Michael Steele's spending spree angers donors

By theGrio

10:04 AM on 02/23/2010

Republican National Chairman Michael Steele is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and paying more for limousines, catering and flowers...

Teenager accused of stabbing grandmother to death

By theGrio

9:30 AM on 02/23/2010

VIDEO - A Texas teenager who told police she found her disabled grandmother dead has been accused of being the killer...

John Mayer didn't hurt this black girl's feelings

By theGrio

9:19 AM on 02/23/2010

Within hours of his Playboy interview going online, John Mayer got subjected to a twitter scolding like I have not seen since Chris Matthews forgot Barack was black...

Jobs bill advances, but is the Senate still paralyzed?

By Anthony Coley

8:41 AM on 02/23/2010

OPINION - Think of what could be accomplished if Republicans accepted President Obama's hand more often than they give him a cold shoulder...

Living under tents, Haitians brace themselves for rainy season

By The Haitian Times

8:15 AM on 02/23/2010

When a torrential downpour soaked Port-au-Prince, it left residents here vulnerable not only to the drenching but to the ailments that follow like fever, cold and pneumonia...