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TheGrio's 100: Robert Bullard, Father of environmental justice inspires next generation
5:00 AM on 02/10/2010
TheGrio's 100 - For three decades Robert Bullard's been publishing reports and books that have spelled out precisely where environmental dangers lay...
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TheGrio's 100: Charles F. Bolden, Administrator of NASA, astronaut
5:00 AM on 02/10/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Charles Bolden is the first African-American head of NASA...
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TheGrio's 100: Derrick Pitts, a star among the stars
1:00 PM on 02/08/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Pitts brings a certain charisma to an otherwise dark, down-tempo discipline...
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TheGrio's 100: Shelton Johnson, park ranger bringing kids to nature
8:00 AM on 02/06/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Shelton Johnson has worked in National Park service for more than 20 years. He did not grow up in a small town in the mountains, but in industrial Detroit...
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TheGrio's 100: Tony Hansberry, whiz-kid considered 'the next Charles Drew'
12:00 PM on 02/03/2010
TheGrio's 100 - People in his Jacksonville, Florida home are calling him the "next Charles Drew"...
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TheGrio's 100: Lisa Jackson, Washington's lead environmentalist
10:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Jackson's leadership comes at a pivotal time for the EPA in the nation's policymaking...
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TheGrio's 100: James McLurkin, Engineer forges fleet of robots
5:01 AM on 02/01/2010
The Grio's 100 - James McLurkin built his first robot in 1988. Today he produces software that can move a whole community of robots...
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TheGrio's 100: Jerome Ringo, proving blacks can go green
5:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - He's worked staunchly as an environmental justice advocate fighting for safer work conditions...
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Environmental effects on people of color need Obama's attention
9:24 AM on 12/10/2009
OPINION - If President Obama is supposed to be more sympathetic to special interests - including the impact of climate change on black people - because of his skin tone and ancestry, he's not showing any signs.
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Pittsburgh protesters aren't looking for another Seattle
8:55 AM on 09/24/2009
There have been concerns that more militant outfits are seeking the kind of carnage witnessed in Seattle, and the city government has acted cautiously...
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Van Jones' resignation shouldn't change future of green jobs
8:22 AM on 09/08/2009
OPINION - The resignation of Van Jones does not have to equal the end of green jobs for the poor.
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Drunk on beer summit, Urban League forgets real problems
11:19 AM on 07/31/2009
If you want to know the condition of African Americans these days, get in a tangle with a police officer. That was the prevailing point of discussion yesterday, at the National Urban League's "State of Black America" forum in Chicago...
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Black organizations at odds over climate bill
11:40 AM on 07/20/2009
Last week's brouhaha between Harry Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce [NBCC] president, and Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, dispelled any assumptions that all African Americans are on board for the new clean energy bill going through Congress...
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Palin should spend less energy on energy
7:43 AM on 07/18/2009
(AP Photo/The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry) Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced on July 3 that she was resigning her seat and since then people have wondered what her new focus would be. Earlier this week, she revealed in a Washington Post op-ed that her focus would be on advocating...
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New Orleans seeing a drought of stimulus funds
8:42 AM on 07/06/2009
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery for New Orleans and many places in the Gulf Coast has not happened for many families devastated by the deadly storm. Recent articles in the New York Times and in Brad Pitt-focused magazine cover stories would have us believe that all is well and...
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Is the climate bill good for black America?
9:15 AM on 07/01/2009
Last Friday, the American Climate and Energy Security [ACES] Act sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) passed through the House bringing the U.S. one step closer to legislation that addresses our global warming and energy problems. The bill passed by a slim margin, 219 to 212...
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TheGrio's 100: Beverly Wright, Bringing environmental justice to post-Katrina New Orleans
4:55 PM on 02/01/2009
TheGrio's 100 - New Orleans would not be the same, and many black families would not be safely back at their homes, if not for the efforts of Dr. Beverly Wright...
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- Tavis Smiley can't win with anti-Obama talk
- First lady and feds to food industry: Cut the fat!
- Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial
- Colorectal cancer doesn't discriminate
- 11-year-old caught in the middle of health reform mudslinging
- The 15 most memorable 'March Madness' moments
- An 'Immortal Life': How one woman's cells helped cure a generation
- Presidential disrespect goes prime-time in Obama's Fox interview
- Baller-in-chief: Obama's 'March Madness' bracket scores well
- Conservatives use abortion issue to court African-Americans
- Will Michael Jackson's new music be a thriller for fans?
- Could 2010 be the year of the black Republican?
- Robert Townsend turns serious with 'Diary of a Single Mom'
- DMX sentenced to six months in Phoenix jail
- Oprah to appear in sex-abuse, defamation trial
- Slideshow: TV's black child stars - where are they now?
- Todd Bridges buries troubled past in 'Killing Willis'
- Jackson estate lands largest recording deal ever
- Rangers manager: I used marijuana, amphetamines
- Ex-porn star reveals purported Tiger texts
- Tiger's aura gone, probably for good
- Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
- Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
- Tiger's return may be most watched golf event ever
- Certain carnival dances said to come from the days of slavery
- Smithsonian receives rare Harriet Tubman items
- Selma, a town rich with history, seeks new legacy
- 'Black Ski' gets a lift from the First Family
- Slideshow: A glimpse of Hawaii's gorgeous landscape
- How to celebrate Black History Month in the Big Apple
- Lawmakers fight to finish health reform
- Kucinich switches vote, will back health reform
- Late-innings hardball in health care push
- Michelle Obama talks to anti-obesity food giants
- It's 'do or die' week for health care reform - how did we get here?
- Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
- Made in America: Black-owned businesses blaze trails on our soil
- GOP questions Boys & Girls Clubs' executive salaries
- Is the average single black woman really worth just $5?
- 'March Madness' isn't amateur, it's big league exploitation
- Why African-Americans are more optimistic despite fewer jobs
- Wealth gap greatest for black and Latino women
- Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark
- Man posing as cop sexually assaults woman
- Barbershop Buzz: Should 'No Child Left Behind' be left behind?
- Teen dies after being pushed into traffic
- Children help mother deliver fourth child
- Missing woman's body found stuffed into bedframe
- 'Brooklyn's Finest' is flawed but fiercely entertaining
- Why audiences should opt-out of 'Cop Out'
- Black music without borders: Five artists you need to hear
- 'Ameriville': Stories of Hurricane Katrina still alive onstage
- Sade's return is worth the wait
- Aid groups struggle to get food, water to Haitians
- TheGrio Reflects: Malcolm X rails against complacent civil rights activists
- TheGrio Reflects: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
- TheGrio Reflects: Muhammad Ali on Vietnam
- theGrio Reflects: The Story Of Emmett Till
- theGrio Reflects: the Underground Railroad
- theGrio Reflects: The 14th Amendment is adopted
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