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Tea Party movement lacks diversity, but unified in anti-government fervor (VIDEO)
3:18 PM on 02/05/2010
VIDEO - At the first day of the National Tea Party Convention, the scene was far more subdued, but the message was clear: Federal government, get out of our way...
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TheGrio's 100: Seun Adebiyi, fighting for his life and for others (VIDEO)
8:18 AM on 02/02/2010
TheGrio's 100 - An Olympic hopeful and a fighter; Seun Adebiyi leads the Herculean feat of increasing minority bone marrow donor registration...
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Cite Soleil's best and brightest buried in mission school (VIDEO)
8:00 AM on 01/21/2010
VIDEO - Singing once filled the classrooms at this Salesian mission school in Cite Soleil - in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Now, there is only silence...
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Reporter's notebook: Haiti survivors show patience, strength
1:27 AM on 01/19/2010
DISPATCH - There are people in Haiti like you and me -- workers, store owners, craftsman, brothers, teachers, nurses. Let's not just give them one big 'devastated' label...
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Port-au-Prince school transforms into refuge for quake victims (VIDEO)
3:10 PM on 01/18/2010
VIDEO - theGrio's Todd Johnson speaks with Marc Germaine, who has reopened a Port-au-Prince school and transformed it into a refuge for earthquake victims...
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Haitians search for family - and hope - in makeshift communities (VIDEO)
3:31 PM on 01/17/2010
VIDEO - In Haiti, people are searching for hope in any way they can. That means forming communities when there are no other options...
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Reporter's notebook: 'How will my country put up with this?'
5:45 PM on 01/14/2010
DISPATCH -Todd Johnson: Karl Alexis just shakes his head when asked if he ever imagined an earthquake could strike his native Haiti...
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Reporter's notebook: Getting to Haiti
12:45 PM on 01/14/2010
DISPATCH - Todd Johnson on being dispatched to cover the earthquake in Haiti.
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Cancer victim sheds light on bone marrow donor crisis (VIDEO)
1:07 PM on 01/13/2010
VIDEO - Seun Adebiyi is proud of his many accomplishments -- graduating from Yale Law School, working for Goldman Sachs and even training for the 2014 Winter Olympics...
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'Team in Africa' program connects students a continent apart (VIDEO)
7:02 AM on 01/11/2010
VIDEO - Rwanda and Kenya might as well be on another planet for most middle-school students. But not at Team Academy in Newark, New Jersey...
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HP's face-tracking webcams aren't 'racist' (VIDEO)
9:32 AM on 12/22/2009
VIDEO - Webcams aren't usually accused of holding biases. But after one consumer took to YouTube to criticize HP's Deluxe Webcam, the Internet buzz began...
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Obama's approval rating slips but blacks show steady support (VIDEO)
10:06 AM on 12/18/2009
VIDEO - The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows a 47 percent approval rating for President Barack Obama...
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Jesse Jackson grades Obama, weighs in on Tiger Woods (VIDEO)
11:40 AM on 12/16/2009
VIDEO - Rev. Jesse Jackson continues to push President Barack Obama to make black unemployment more of a priority in his administration...
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Debate teams help black students find their voice (VIDEO)
8:20 AM on 12/15/2009
VIDEO - High school juniors Devonte Escoffery and Stephon Adams have made their school's debate team their number one priority...
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Magic Johnson: Now is the time to invest in black communities (VIDEO)
9:30 AM on 12/09/2009
VIDEO - NBA Hall of Famer Earvin "Magic" Johnson is still dishing out assists, even if he's not in command of the Los Angeles Lakers' "Showtime" offense...
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Single mom loses job, but keeps the faith (VIDEO)
1:04 PM on 12/03/2009
VIDEO - Single mom Sharon Cooper has a new mindset when it comes to shopping: if it isn't food, it isn't needed...
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Cornel West talks to theGrio about his new memoir (VIDEO)
9:06 AM on 12/01/2009
Cornel West calls his new memoir, "Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud," his "most unique work yet."
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Cornel West: Obama is for big business not the jobless (VIDEO)
8:53 AM on 12/01/2009
VIDEO - Educator Cornel West sat down with theGrio to discuss how unemployment is affecting African-Americans...
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Church expansion brings 'New Hope' in tough economic times (VIDEO)
6:00 AM on 11/26/2009
VIDEO - A multi-million dollar building project sounded a lot more practical for New Hope Baptist Church back in April 2007...
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Sisters use shea butter to soften recession's rough patch (VIDEO)
7:00 AM on 11/25/2009
VIDEO - Ssanyu Birigwa and her sister Mirembe have two words for the struggling economy: "Thank you."
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