contributors - Earl Ofari Hutchinson
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Will Obama finally break our oil addiction?
11:10 AM on 06/18/2010
OPINION - Words are one thing, but the terrifying reality is that to break our oil addiction, as with any other addiction, it takes a strong will and the means to do it....
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Alvin Greene is a mess of Dems' own making
2:32 PM on 06/15/2010
OPINION - The right question is not who is and who put up Alvin Greene. The question is why an Alvin Greene?...
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theGrio Q & A: SC Senate candidate Alvin Greene
7:42 PM on 06/12/2010
theGRIO Q & A - South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene discussed his shocking primary win on the Hutchinson Report...
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Oscar Grant case casts ugly glare on jury race bias
6:31 PM on 06/11/2010
OPINION - A jury with no blacks, composed of mostly older middle class whites, and non-black ethnics, is much more likely to believe the testimony of police...
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Why Obama can't kick 'ass' on the oil spill
9:31 AM on 06/09/2010
OPINION - There's no real surprise at the hypocritical, feigned shock when Obama dares say what many think he should...
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Why BP keeps stonewalling Obama
12:32 PM on 06/07/2010
OPINION - BP's corporate arrogance is made out of cash. It can and has bought its way out of trouble repeatedly and when need be even bought governments...
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Why Democrats are the greatest danger to Obama's agenda
11:44 AM on 06/04/2010
OPINION - President Obama's deadliest enemy is not Sarah Palin, GOP congressional obstructionists, the Republican National Committee or even Fox News...
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Obama caught between BP and a hard place
1:45 PM on 06/01/2010
OPINION - The Obama critics shout it at him partly out of ignorance at what the government can do, and partly just to beat up on him. ...
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Why the oil spill is not Obama's Katrina
8:50 AM on 05/26/2010
OPINION - The GOP's political attack plan is crude and transparent. Compare the Gulf spill to Bush's Katrina bumble, liken Obama to Bush and heap the same blame...
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How race haunts both Ron and Rand Paul
10:17 AM on 05/21/2010
OPINION - Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul may or may not learn what his father Ron learned...
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Teen sentencing still a national embarrassment
8:53 AM on 05/18/2010
OPINION - The latest Supreme Court ruling banning life terms for juveniles who aren't guilty of murder is not nearly enough...
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Black leaders out of step with followers on immigration
12:30 PM on 05/12/2010
OPINION - There is a quiet but glaring disconnect between civil rights leaders backing immigration reform and the antipathy many blacks feel toward illegal immigration...
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Will affirmative action be Kagan's Achilles' heel?
8:54 AM on 05/10/2010
OPINION - During her six year tenure as dean of Harvard University Law School, Kagan had an abominable record on recruiting and hiring minority professors...
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African-American Tea Partiers: Don't call us traitors
1:01 PM on 05/06/2010
OPINION - It's loose, disjointed, populist pitch with seemingly no direct tie to the GOP mainstream seems a safe haven for some blacks to vent their opposition to big government...
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Arizona puts racial profiling back in spotlight
9:20 AM on 05/03/2010
OPINION - Racial profiling had virtually disappeared as a sore point of debate and contention before Arizona's immigration battle...
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Have GOP diversity claims finally come to fruition?
8:39 AM on 04/30/2010
OPINION - The final test for the black GOP candidates is whether RNC chair Michael Steele will actually put money and muscle behind any of their candidacies...
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Asheville arrest triggers old fears for African-Americans
1:30 PM on 04/27/2010
OPINION - Any other time and with any other president, the puzzling escapade at the North Carolina airport might be shrugged off as the confused action of an unsteady mind...
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Ariz. immigration law puts Obama in tight spot
10:07 AM on 04/24/2010
OPINION - Arizona may have taken the option of watch and wait caution off the White House table...
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Why Michael Steele will stay at the RNC
11:26 AM on 04/07/2010
OPINION - The RNC still needs Steele for the very reason he was plucked for the lead role in the first place...
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Black joblessness is Obama's next big challenge
2:53 PM on 03/26/2010
OPINION - The bitter new reality is that the job crisis is no longer Bush's crisis. It's Obama's...
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Cory Booker defends Bain Capital, calls attacks on private equity 'nauseating'
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NAACP backs same-sex marriage as civil right
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Obama campaign headquaters, Rahm Emanuel's home targeted for terror attacks
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Slideshow: Female R&B singers turned movie stars
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Michelle Obama: Province in Italy dedicates 1,400-year-old olive tree to first lady
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Donna Summer dead: Remembering her greatest songs (SLIDESHOW)
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Tyra Banks sticks up for women's 'flawsome' features in open letter to Vogue
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Judy Smith: How the woman who inspired 'Scandal' redefined black female power players in DC
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