contributors - Michael E. Ross
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Should CBS replace Katie Couric with a black anchor?
8:02 AM on 04/06/2011
OPINION - As CBS makes its decision, we can expect those who monitor the progress of black and minority journalists in television news to get behind Russ Mitchell...
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White supremacist threat overshadowed by Muslim fears
9:01 AM on 03/21/2011
OPINION - Rep. Peter King's high-profile attention to one form of American terrorism at the expense of exposing the dangers in another...
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New report puts Seattle PD on defensive for excessive force
8:16 AM on 03/11/2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Seattle department's report comes after a series of events that have aroused the scrutiny of civil rights groups -- and possibly the Justice Department...
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Should African-Americans celebrate LBJ's legacy?
8:16 AM on 02/21/2011
OPINION - Had he survived into the Facebook era, his relationship status with race matters might well have been filed under "It's complicated."...
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How a white man became black overnight
8:17 AM on 02/09/2011
theGRIO REPORT - Michael Fosberg discovered a wholesale change in his racial identity in the time it took to make one phone call...
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Spokane still searching for answers on MLK parade bomb
9:20 AM on 02/03/2011
theGRIO REPORT - A thwarted attempt at mass murder in a Washington town on MLK Day was only part of a story of resurging intolerance...
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Black Jews no longer in the background of US life
8:53 AM on 12/23/2010
theGRIO REPORT - The idea of black Jews in America is more widely accepted than in years past, dovetailing with the nation's overall increasingly diverse demographic mosaic...
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Why this election could wipe Memphis off the map
8:42 AM on 10/25/2010
theGRIO REPORT - For some of the city's 415,000 African-American residents, 62 percent of all Memphians, consolidation efforts have a racial undertone...
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30 years later 'Jimmy's World' still casts shadow on black journalists
9:22 AM on 09/30/2010
theGRIO REPORT - 30 years later, the "Jimmy's World" incident still has a tragic resonance for minority journalists still struggling to find a place in the nation's newsrooms...
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'Undercovers' puts new spin on spy genre
8:29 AM on 09/22/2010
REVIEW - Not only are they new faces, they're black, in an industry whose tendencies toward risk aversion have usually made such casting more the exception than the rule...
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New generations experience Jimi Hendrix 40 years after his death
8:27 AM on 09/17/2010
theGRIO REPORT - Amid a flurry of previously unreleased music and images, fans and scholars alike are re-examining his music and his grip on pop culture...
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5 years later: Does George Bush care about black people?
9:24 AM on 08/26/2010
OPINION - George Bush runs no risk of being re-branded for the history books as an overlooked champion of black and minority aspirations...
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A darling of none, Kagan may bypass partisan politics
8:27 AM on 05/10/2010
OPINION - Ironically, one of the best reasons to recommend Kagan's nod for the Supreme Court may be the uniformity of opposition to her as an Associate Justice...
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Twitter-verse draws more black followers into its orbit
10:11 AM on 05/07/2010
In ways more surprising to Internet analysts than to black Americans, Twitter taps into our historical experience of making more out of less...
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Slideshow: Film festivals celebrate black cinema at a theater near you
4:42 PM on 04/16/2010
SLIDESHOW - Film festivals are forging ahead, their organizers working to balance the need to maintain public interest in African-American film with the need to stay afloat in an austere economic climate.
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Obama's top 10 Supreme Court prospects
10:14 AM on 04/09/2010
SLIDESHOW - These individuals represent a range of intellectual and judicial heavyweights reflecting a range of personal perspectives very much like America itself...
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'24' helped make the world safe for a black president
8:10 AM on 03/30/2010
OPINION - The show's depiction of a black American leader may have actually burnished the bona fides of Obama's campaign...
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TheGrio's 100: Will.i.am, musician and political force
10:00 AM on 02/09/2010
TheGrio's 100 - The co-founder and frontman of the Grammy-winning Black Eyed Peas, raised in Los Angeles in a family with a largely absent father...
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TheGrio's 100: Gina Prince-Bythewood, moving others through films
5:00 AM on 02/09/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Without having neatly-packaged shows ready-made in front of her, as a child, Gina Prince-Bythewood developed an appreciation for literature, reading voraciously...
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TheGrio's 100: Drake, Mixtape master turned rap superstar
5:00 AM on 02/07/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Drake personifies the DIY creative experience...
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