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Should Americans fear Chinese influence in Africa?
8:22 AM on 11/07/2011
theGRIO REPORT - According to one estimate, trade between China and Africa grew by more than 1,000 percent between 2000 and 2010...
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Post-Gadhafi is there potential for an 'African Spring'?
12:57 PM on 10/20/2011
OPINION - In many sub-Saharan countries, authoritarian regimes know how to appease their people -- sometimes a whiff of democracy is enough...
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Why it's a bad time to be black in Libya
4:02 PM on 09/01/2011
theGRIO REPORT - If hallmarks of the Gadhafi regime are being thrown out in a lurch towards revenge rather than justice, it is feared that black Africans and 'pan-Africanism' might now be rejected by some Libyans...
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Who will be the next great African leader?
6:12 AM on 07/18/2011
OPINION - So respected is Mandela, that millions of people will do precisely as he asks. It makes many wonder about the future: Who will be Africa's next undisputed leader?
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Worst African drought in decades has Kenyans on edge
9:24 AM on 07/14/2011
theGRIO REPORT - In a familiar routine, people around the world have finally seen the images of suffering and are telling their governments to help...
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How Michelle Obama has won over South Africa
8:20 AM on 06/23/2011
OPINION - The first lady has delivered on her "core Africa issues" -- AIDS, poverty, and education; and she has done it with grace...
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Black America's first ladies may have big impact in Africa
8:48 AM on 06/20/2011
theGRIO REPORT - The visits of both women this week might help to illuminate two different aspects of black America's evolving influence over Africa...
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Children of Mozambique suffer for lack of cheap meds
8:03 AM on 06/13/2011
theGRIO REPORT - In Nampula General, up to 60 percent of beds are taken up by patients with basic forms of two illnesses -- pneumonia and diarrhea...
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Is Mandela being used as a political prop?
8:46 AM on 05/18/2011
theGRIO REPORT - What better way to fight apathy, and remind black people of the price paid for the vote, than a picture of Mandela at a ballot box?...
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Why do some Somalis become pirates?
8:44 AM on 05/09/2011
theGRIO REPORT - In a lawless, desperate country, piracy might still seem irresistible. For many young Somali men there is no alternative...
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'Epidemic' of homophobia spreads through South Africa
8:09 AM on 05/06/2011
theGRIO REPORT - The South African government appears to have been jolted into action by the latest killing, and has set up a special unit to tackle hate crimes against gays...
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South Africa celebrates Freedom Day in shadow of apartheid
8:21 AM on 04/27/2011
theGRIO REPORT - April 27th 1994 was the day of South Africa's first democratic, multi-racial elections. The racial restrictions of the apartheid era had ended...
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South African 'Idol' yet to crown black winner after six seasons
9:50 AM on 03/17/2011
theGRIO REPORT - The South African reincarnation of the international franchise -- looks just like all the other foreign versions of the show, but it doesn't look like South Africa...
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Nancy Grace asks 'Who pushed Whitney Houston underwater?'
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Valentine's Day: Has technology made love letters obsolete?
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Black hair salons pamper women for Valentine's
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CBC Chair Emanuel Cleaver denies he called Obama budget 'nervous breakdown on paper'
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Rapper Too Short, in XXL column, gives boys advice to 'turn girls out'
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Valentine's Day: theGrio's favorite black romantic movies (SLIDESHOW)
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Whitney Houston and Brick City breakout artists: Music stars who call Newark home (SLIDESHOW)
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Presidential PDA: Barack and Michelle Obama's most romantic moments (SLIDESHOW)
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Slideshow: theGrio's best break-up songs of all time
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Grammy Awards 2012: Best and worst red carpet fashion
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New York magazine published picture of Obama evolving from ape to human
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Jeremy Lin's race matters and that's a good thing
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Are Democrats too eager to abandon President Obama?
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Nicki Minaj Grammys backlash: Has the rapper put her career at risk?
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Interracial relationships in the post-'Loving v. Virginia' age
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