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Mo'Nique prepares for comedy tour
9:23 AM on 02/24/2010
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mo'Nique won the Golden Globe. She also picked up a SAG Award. And don't forgot about her most recent honor this week at the BAFTA's...
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Ariz. lawmakers want to force Obama to show birth certificate in 2012
9:08 AM on 02/24/2010
PHOENIX (AP) -- Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election...
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CBS fights '04 Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction' fine
8:39 AM on 02/24/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - CBS argued anew Tuesday that it should not be held responsible for the half-second of nudity...
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Fire at famed Philly music company is ruled arson
8:39 AM on 02/24/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A two-alarm fire that damaged the building where the "Sound of Philadelphia" was born has been ruled an arson...
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Tea Party leader on Obama: 'Our half white, racist president'
5:58 PM on 02/23/2010
A top Tea Party leader derided Barack Obama as "our half white, racist president" in an email to colleagues...
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Reid seeks extension of jobless aid until end of 2010
5:40 PM on 02/23/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December...
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Eagles release RB Westbrook after 8 seasons
5:34 PM on 02/23/2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Brian Westbrook was released Tuesday by the Philadelphia Eagles, ending an often-dynamic eight-year run that was marred by various injuries...
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Afro-centric brides on parade
5:16 PM on 02/23/2010
From The Local - Brooklyn, NY - The ceremony started with a bang as the drum processional proceeded down St. James Place, onto Lafayette Avenue and through the doors of the church...
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Rep. Clyburn denounces Rep. King for IRS attack excuses
4:32 PM on 02/23/2010
James Clyburn took to the House floor on Tuesday to denounce a fellow member of Congress for making excuses for the terrorist attack on the IRS building in Texas...
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Legendary Gamble and Huff studio spared in office fire
3:45 PM on 02/23/2010
The studio, where Patti LaBelle, Teddy Pendergrass, and other stars once recorded their hits, was undamaged despite having walls covered in the original orange shag carpet..
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Tiger apologizes to parents at daughter's preschool
3:39 PM on 02/23/2010
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) - Tiger Woods has offered another apology, this time to parents of children at the preschool that his 2-year-old daughter attends...
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Jay-Z: I created the 'Single Ladies' dance
3:14 PM on 02/23/2010
Jay-Z is known for being extremely tight-lipped about his relationship with wife Beyonce Knowles, but he took some time to joke about it on BBC's 'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.'...
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Tavis Smiley vs. Al Sharpton: 'Is there a need for a black agenda?'
2:41 PM on 02/23/2010
Tavis Smiley confronted the question "Is there a need for a Black Agenda?" and announced the symposium on the Tom Joyner morning show...
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Obama: repeal health insurers antitrust exemption
2:25 PM on 02/23/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to strip health insurers of their decades-old exemption from federal antitrust laws...
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Ole Miss to vote on Colonel Reb mascot replacement
12:35 PM on 02/23/2010
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Students at the University of Mississippi vote Tuesday on whether to replace their American football team mascot Colonel Reb -- a caricature of a white plantation owner...
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Jayson Williams gets minimum 18 months in shooting
11:25 AM on 02/23/2010
SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - Former NBA star Jayson Williams has been sentenced to a minimum 18 months in prison for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey...
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Fashion to follow: 15 top twitter feeds
10:39 AM on 02/23/2010
From Clutch Magazine - SLIDESHOW - If there is any industry that has dominated Twitter's public timeline, it is the world of fashion. Clutch's Fashion Contributors offer the top 15 to follow...
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Orphanage director: Haiti holds 6 US-bound kids
10:20 AM on 02/23/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE(AP) - Six U.S.-bound orphans seized by Haitian police despite having their papers in order remained in a government-run nursery more than two days later...
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Michael Steele's spending spree angers donors
10:04 AM on 02/23/2010
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and paying more for limousines, catering and flowers...
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Teenager accused of stabbing grandmother to death
9:30 AM on 02/23/2010
VIDEO - A Texas teenager who told police she found her disabled grandmother dead has been accused of being the killer...
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- Obama and Dems: 'We're well past 216' votes for health reform
- Obama to Dems: Health reform 'is in your hands'
- Health care reform protesters shout N-word at black lawmakers
- African-Americans support Obama's race-neutral stance
- Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes
- First lady and feds to food industry: Cut the fat!
- Oprah, schoolgirls to testify at defamation trial
- 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'
- The 15 most memorable 'March Madness' moments
- Rangers manager: I used marijuana, amphetamines
- Ex-porn star reveals purported Tiger texts
- Tiger's aura gone, probably for good
- Ed Secretary: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
- Coach on coke: Rangers' Ron Washington tests positive for drugs
- 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
- Obama delays Asia trip to deal with health care
- New studies reveal the urgency of first lady's obesity fight
- Made in America: Black-owned businesses blaze trails on our soil
- GOP questions Boys & Girls Clubs' executive salaries
- Wealth gap greatest for black and Latino women
- Minority firms get less stimulus money
- Obama proposes $900 million in grants to stop school drop outs
- 2/22/10 - theGrio & CNBC Market Update
- Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark
- Man posing as cop sexually assaults woman
- 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
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- theGrio Reflects: the Underground Railroad
- theGrio Reflects: The 14th Amendment is adopted
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