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'Mountaintop' creator Katori Hall wants to show 'human' MLK
9:47 AM on 10/20/2011
theGRIO Q&A - theGrio caught up with the playwright, who's currently traveling, to discuss the inspiration behind her new Broadway show starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett...
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'The Mountaintop' portrays a more down to earth MLK
8:37 AM on 10/13/2011
REVIEW - 'The Mountaintop' is definitely not your standard narrative of Dr. King as a public figure or the black saint who much of civil rights lore makes him out to be...
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Lenny Kravitz goes gray on 'Black and White America'
1:00 PM on 08/30/2011
REVIEW - It's risky business when artists tack provocative titles onto their work and fail to follow-up on said title as if being provocative itself justifies the work...
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Slideshow: theGrio's top 25 black celebrity hipsters
6:00 AM on 08/30/2011
SLIDESHOW - For all their individualism, creative genius, and yes, swag, we chose the following artists who epitomize hipsterism...
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'Beats, Rhymes & Life': A fine and fair tribute to A Tribe Called Quest
9:11 AM on 07/15/2011
REVIEW - The film makes an earnest effort to give the legendary hip-hop quartet its props, while critically looking at reasons for the band's breakup...
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Slideshow: A brief history of the 'hood film'
1:39 PM on 07/12/2011
SLIDESHOW - Shortly after 'Boyz n the Hood' scores of film emerged around the heading of what Wikipedia calls 'hood films'...
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Sapphire's 'The Kid' gives orphans of HIV/AIDs a voice
3:02 PM on 07/05/2011
the GRIO Q&A - 'The Kid', picks-up where the novel 'PUSH' leaves off with Clarice Precious Jones, an HIV-positive teenage mom is seen holding her baby boy...
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Slideshow: theGrio's summer reading list
8:00 AM on 06/29/2011
SLIDESHOW - Regardless of how you read--be it traditional hardback, electronic device, or smart phone--summer is the perfect time to retreat in the shade with a good book...
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Tupac turns 40: What if he had survived?
8:10 AM on 06/16/2011
OPINION - It's nearly impossible to imagine the life Tupac would have led had things happened differently
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Class acts: This year's black commencement speakers
8:22 AM on 05/16/2011
SLIDESHOW - These black luminaries, taking the stage first, are leaders of stage and film, law professors, even our nation's chief executive officer and his first lady...
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'By the Way', Sanaa Lathan is back on stage
8:06 AM on 05/05/2011
theGRIO Q&A - Sanaa Lathan reflects on her recent hiatus from films to focus on once-in-a-lifetime roles in theater, what's it like being a black actress in Hollywood...
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Kimberly Elise: Tyler Perry's film not just 'For Colored Girls'
8:31 AM on 11/03/2010
theGRIO Q&A - Kimberly Elise talks with theGrio about her acting process and the transformative experience of being a part of an all star cast in this historic adaptation...
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What Obama should say to the unemployed
5:53 AM on 12/08/2009
OPINION - In October, I left my job or I was fired. My position was terminated. However you slice it my future was uncertain. As President Obama gears up for his speech on unemployment...
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