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Is African boarding school the answer for Indiana's inner-city kids?
11:15 AM on 11/17/2009
Would you send your child to school halfway across the world if it meant the chance to escape the distractions of a dangerous neighborhood...
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The Obamas tour slave dungeons
4:51 PM on 07/11/2009
Watch President Obama speak of his family's experience touring the slave dungeons of Cape Coast Castle. President Barack Obama said the slave site in Ghana reminds him of humanity's potential for "great evil." But he says it also gives him a reason for hope, given the progress African-Americans have made since...
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Obama's address to Africa stern but hopeful
10:28 AM on 07/11/2009
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- An American president who has "the blood of Africa within me" praised and scolded the continent of his ancestors Saturday, asserting forces of tyranny and corruption must yield if Africa is to achieve its promise...
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The Obamas arrive in Ghana
5:26 PM on 07/10/2009
President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. He landed soon after 9 p.m. local time and met a group of dignitaries, led by President John Atta Mills. An ethnic African group danced and banged drums for Obama's arrival. After traveling to Russia and then Italy for a meeting of major...
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theGrio Reflects: Bill Clinton visits Ghana
5:00 PM on 07/10/2009
In anticipation of Barack Obama's arrival to Ghana today, theGrio reflects on former President Bill Clinton's twelve-day tour of Africa in 1998. This trip to Africa was the longest foreign-policy journey of the Clinton presidency--the mission, the White House said, was to nurture a new awareness between the US and...
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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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Michelle can use fashion to assist Africa
8:11 AM on 07/10/2009
Model shows off work of Ghanaian designer Christie Brown (Courtesy: Simon Deiner/SDR Photo/Eric Don Arthur) As the Obamas prepare to visit Ghana, much of the focus has been on how Michelle Obama should highlight the AIDS epidemic among young girls in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa. However, whether most like it...
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Will a black president make any difference to Africa?
8:05 AM on 07/10/2009
A Ghanaian jersey vendor sells shirts depicting President Obama (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Africans were filled with joy and high expectations when Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan, was elected president of the United States of America. On a trip to Nigeria, the country that my family hails from, shortly before...
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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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Obama speaks about trip to Africa
4:59 PM on 07/09/2009
President Barack Obama sat down with AllAfrica.com before he left the country for Ghana. Watch excerpt of video or view full version at AllAfrica.com Q How is it that you happened to pick Ghana as the first place to visit in sub-Saharan Africa? THE PRESIDENT: Well, part of the reason...
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What Obama needs to do in Africa
8:41 AM on 07/09/2009
Obama looks on during the G8 Summit (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) In a recent interview with AllAfrica.com, President Obama said: "I'd say I'm probably as knowledgeable about African history as anybody who's occupied my office. And I can give you chapter and verse on why the colonial maps that were...
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theGrio Reflects: Ghana freed from colonial rule
8:00 AM on 07/09/2009
On the eve of President Obama's visit to Ghana, theGrio looks back to when the country first celebrated its independence from British rule. On March 6, 1957 citizens of the new state of Ghana gathered for a celebration marking their freedom from colonialism. What was once the gold coast of...
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The politics behind Obama's Ghana visit
7:45 AM on 07/09/2009
The last stop on President Barack Obama's week-long trip may prove to be his most historic and newsworthy. Just one day before Mr. Obama arrives in Ghana, the significance of his trip is the topic of conversation among most Ghanaians. In this country even though Mr. Obama's father hailed from Kenya...
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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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The Obamas in Africa
10:44 AM on 07/08/2009
First, I would like to thank all of our users, readers, and viewers who have made theGrio.com their stop in obtaining news and views concerning black America. I'm pleased to announce that our first special series for the site, The Obamas in Africa, is launching today. This Friday the president...
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What does it mean to be African American?
9:14 AM on 07/08/2009
As the first "African American" president prepares to visit Ghana, I'm struck by the irony of his scheduled visit to the Cape Coast Castle. The former slave trading post has the "door of no return" through which many Africans passed on their way to the ships that would bring them...
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My return to Africa
9:04 AM on 07/08/2009
As President Obama prepares to visit Ghana on July 10 and 11th, I am reminded of the first time I journeyed there in 1997. For me, it was a life-changing event. I was on assignment for American Legacy magazine and what begun as a curious examination of the former slave...
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