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New hate crimes act links African-American and LGBT struggles
11:50 AM on 10/28/2009
OPINION - The LGBT struggle is a Civil Rights struggle yet, in the black community, fear of homosexuality (in others and in ourselves) prevents us from advancing this cause as our own...
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Book Review: Paule Marshall's Triangular Road
7:45 AM on 07/06/2009
One of the most important writers of the 2nd half of the 20th century, Paule Marshall bears witness to the artist's life in her first memoir, Triangular Road. In many ways, Marshall embodies the complex hybridism of the 20th century. The daughter of immigrant parents, she is both West Indian...
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Sotomayor can never be a racist
10:07 AM on 06/11/2009
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The Republicans are losing their minds. How else to explain the transparency in their vicious attacks on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor? What makes the charges of racism lodged by Newt Gingrich - who has since said he was wrong to call Sotomayor a racist...
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- Democrats' crack-cocaine compromise is still 'racist'
- How 'Bloody Sunday' changed America
- Three reasons why Obama should take small steps to save jobs
- Why audiences should opt-out of 'Cop Out'
- Van Jones returns: 'I'm more committed to the politics of hope now'
- Todd Bridges buries troubled past in 'Killing Willis'
- Lee Daniels: We need to get out of 'Huxtable' mode
- Slideshow: 20 films that uplifted black America
- Slideshow: 15 films that hurt black America
- 'High School Musical' star Corbin Bleu talks to theGrio about new Broadway role
- Slideshow: The 25 most influential albums by African-Americans
- Obama proposes $900 million in grants to stop school drop outs
- Charles Rangel should resign in light of ethics panel ruling
- Obama, Republicans clash at heated health summit
- Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan to run for Congress in Mississippi
- NY Gov. Paterson has mere $620G to battle $12 million-man Andrew Cuomo
- The new Obama is the old Obama
- AP sources: Woods likely to return at Masters
- Michael Jordan to buy NBA's Bobcats
- First black figure skating pair leaps over color barriers & national borders
- Slideshow: The 15 best dunkers in NBA history
- Where's the diversity at the Winter Olympics?
- Slideshow: African-Americans at the Winter games
- Certain carnival dances said to come from the days of slavery
- 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
- Afro-centric brides on parade
- TheGrio's 100: Mary Spio, reaching beyond the stars
- TheGrio's 100: Tim King, prepping the next generation
- TheGrio's 100: Kamala Harris, the future of California politics
- TheGrio Reflects: The genius of Ray Charles
- TheGrio's 100: Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph, battling breast cancer and more
- TheGrio's 100: Clarence Otis Jr, serving 400 million meals a year
- 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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