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Stimulus is music to jazz artists' ears
7:45 AM on 11/24/2009
VIDEO - Thanks to the Jazz Foundation of America, a nonprofit group that assists struggling veteran musicians, Bertha Hope has one gig that she can always count on...
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Harlem drawings serve as snapshot of black culture
8:37 AM on 11/13/2009
VIDEO - From the barbershop down the block, to African hair braiders setting up shop on the street corner, artist Wardell Milan presents a personal view of Harlem in a series of sketches...
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Single mothers work to break the cycle, dispel stereotypes
11:10 AM on 10/22/2009
VIDEO - Public school teacher Shaunté Sparks thought she knew what her family life would look like...
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Women pastors break the stained-glass ceiling
7:34 AM on 10/21/2009
VIDEO - It's a typical Sunday at a church in Harlem, New York. Except with Reverend Kim Anderson at the pulpit...
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Black women find themselves single and happy ever after
1:39 PM on 10/19/2009
VIDEO - By the end of this year, studies show more than half of the American workforce will be female. But for many African-American women, with success comes something else...
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HIV/AIDS patients burdened by emotional baggage of shame
10:06 AM on 09/24/2009
VIDEO - Nearly half of the HIV patients in America are African-American, and many are familiar with the shameful stigma that comes with the disease.
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Actor Hill Harper talks relationships in his new book
1:07 PM on 09/22/2009
VIDEO - Best known for his work on CSI: NY, Hill Harper is a New York Times bestselling author with two books under his belt with a third released this month...
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Recession buys parents more time with kids at school
8:27 AM on 09/18/2009
VIDEO - An online poll found that nearly 2 in 3 parents surveyed feel that because of the recession, it's more important for them to volunteer in the classroom.
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- 11-year-old caught in the middle of health reform mudslinging
- Heavy rains swamp camps holding Haiti's homeless
- Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark
- Man posing as cop sexually assaults woman
- Rangers manager: I used marijuana, amphetamines
- Obama skips Asia trip to push health care bill
- 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?
- Five reasons Tiger will come roaring back
- 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
- Maryland trying to secede from the South
- Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers
- Paterson claims he made initial scandal leak
- Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
- House Dems on track for vote on $940 billion health bill
- Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
- Ex-porn star reveals purported Tiger texts
- The 15 most memorable 'March Madness' moments
- Tiger's aura gone, probably for good
- Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
- Tiger's return may be most watched golf event ever
- Arenas: 'I deserve to be punished' for gun prank
- 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
- 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
- Congressional Black Caucus calls current jobs bill 'inadequate'
- Paterson's press secretary resigns amid scandal
- '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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