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Cook defends fried chicken choice for Black History Month menu
5:05 PM on 02/04/2010
VIDEO - It may have seemed like an innocent tweet. But when you have more than a million followers, it's never that simple. Questlove, the drummer for the Roots...
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Tent cities are home for business in Haiti
2:17 PM on 02/01/2010
VIDEO - In the midst of a Port-au-Prince tent city, a business district if you will, is built among these makeshift homes...
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Haitian-American doctors reach out to Haitians in quake's wake
2:07 PM on 01/29/2010
VIDEO - A group of about 30 Haitian-American medical professionals are on the ground in Port-Au-Prince, compelled to help their homeland...
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Haiti's national police chief fears new wave of crime in Haiti
9:52 AM on 01/27/2010
VIDEO - Haitian police are being forced to adapt to the dangers of thousands of stranded, hungry people and "bad guys...trying to reorganize themselves."
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Reporter's notebook: Haiti remains resilient
9:19 AM on 01/26/2010
DISPATCH - It will take years before things really return to normal, whatever that means after a crisis like this...
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Two weeks after quake, Haitians search for 'new normal'
1:37 PM on 01/25/2010
VIDEO - Like so many in this city, 14-year old Jonel Julius now calls a tent home...
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Reporter's notebook: Witnessing a miracle in Haiti
10:05 AM on 01/24/2010
DISPATCH - Seventy-two hours. That is the window of time most experts give for finding survivors of a disaster. Yesterday a 24-year old Haitian man was pulled alive from a pile of rubble...
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Black women's hair is big business
8:36 AM on 10/08/2009
VIDEO - When it comes to hairstyles, black women have no shortage of options. No request is out of the ordinary at beauty salons nationwide...
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Welcome to Hotel Obama
11:46 AM on 07/10/2009
ACCRA, GHANA -- Obama fever has gripped Ghana. Ghanaians want anything Obama-related, from T-shirts to songs. Now, some can sleep in his room. Hotel Obama is a brand new hotel in Ghana's capital city. Every room is designed around a Barack Obama theme. "If there's a hotel named Lincoln, if...
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Ghana official: Obamas are coming home
7:11 PM on 07/09/2009
CAPE COAST, GHANA -- The Grio's correspondent Mara Schiavocampo spoke today with Deputy Minister of Tourism Kwabena Akyeampong. Their conversation centered on a tour of Cape Coast Castle, a historic slave castle along Ghana's central coast. Deputy Minister Akyeampong...
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Mara vlogs from Ghana
7:05 AM on 07/09/2009
I'm in Ghana working on some stories related to the President's upcoming visit. Friday Obama arrives in the capital city of Accra for his first stop in sub-Saharan Africa as President. As producer Anthony Galloway and I have been going around gathering elements for our stories we've also had some...
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Black American in Africa anticipates Obama's arrival
11:00 AM on 07/08/2009
The Grio's contributing correspondent Mara Schiavocampo paid a visit to Dr. Erieka Bennett, Head of Mission for the Diaspora African Forum in Accra, Ghana. Bennett is an African-American who has lived in Africa for the last 8 years. She expressed elation over the Obamas' visit. "They are the hopes and...
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theGrio tweets from Ghana in preparation for the Obamas' visit
3:30 PM on 07/06/2009
Mara Schiavocampo and Anthony Galloway are on the ground in Ghana getting local stories and talking to Ghanains about the Obama family's visit. Be sure to check in as they tweet from the streets of Accra and across the country.
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