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Slideshow: Friends or foes? Where black leaders stand with Obama
6:50 PM on 03/09/2010
Who among these influential African-Americans support the president or challenge him the most?...
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Slideshow: theGrio's week in review 2/21 - 2/27
12:20 PM on 02/26/2010
Sharpton vs. Smiley, Obama vs. Republicans and Paterson vs. the polls. These are theGrio's highlight's from the week that was...
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Why Obama should reconcile with Rev. Jesse Jackson
8:05 AM on 02/23/2010
OPINION - President Obama should embrace the legacy and wisdom of Rev. Jackson--and so should the rest of us...
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Rev. Jackson calls Oregon police shooting an execution
2:13 PM on 02/17/2010
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - The prominent civil rights leader criticized plans to allow an officer who shot an unarmed black man to return to regular duty this week...
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Census Bureau pushes to make sure minorities are counted
8:15 AM on 12/17/2009
VIDEO - Historically, the census has undercounted minorities, especially African-Americans and Hispanics, living in big cities...
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Jesse Jackson grades Obama, weighs in on Tiger Woods
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 adminstration...
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Has Obama abandoned blacks?
8:18 AM on 12/16/2009
Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, and other activists talk to Lloyd Grove about disappointment in the African-American community with the president's first year. Danny Glover heaved a sigh when I asked him recently what he thought of President Obama's performance so far...
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Jesse Jackson's race-baiting is doing the president no favor
8:40 AM on 11/20/2009
OPINION - Recent remarks made by Rev. Jesse Jackson not only have a chilling effect on public discourse, they also undermine the concept...
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Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man'
9:31 AM on 11/19/2009
FROM THE HILL> The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats' signature health care bill. "We even have blacks voting against the health care bill," Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. "You can't vote against health care and call yourself...
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Jesse Jackson escorts kids to school after beating death
12:16 PM on 10/13/2009
CHICAGO (AP) - After an honor student's brutal beating, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is joining parents in escorting a group of students who attend a high school on Chicago's South Side...
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Al Sharpton speaks with theGrio about Rush Limbaugh's NFL bid for St. Louis Rams
9:34 AM on 10/13/2009
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are attacking a bid by Rush Limbaugh...
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Jackson and Farrakhan attend Chicago teen's funeral, call for end of violence
6:57 AM on 10/04/2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday...
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Blacks lament cemetery scandal's effect on history
9:07 AM on 08/02/2009
Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in the 1930s and worked tirelessly to raise their family into the middle class...
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NAACP stays on mission, looks to future
9:00 AM on 07/17/2009
As the 100th NAACP Conference wrapped up, theGrio took a look at the organization to examine how it is working to bridge its longstanding mission while staying engaged with the next generation of civil rights leaders.
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Emmett Till's cousin speaks on cemetery scandal
5:24 PM on 07/11/2009
In suburban Chicago a scandal at an historic black cemetery got worse a day after four cemetery workers were charged with digging up bodies to re-sell gravesites. Hundreds came to the Burr Oak Cemetery trying to locate family members they thought had been laid to rest. Four cemetery employees are...
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About 300 graves raided at historic black cemetery
3:45 PM on 07/09/2009
Four workers were charged Thursday in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other...
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Jackson's mother looks to maintain custody of kids
5:31 PM on 06/29/2009
Michael Jackson's mother asked a Superior Court judge on Monday to name her administrator of her late son's estate so she can ensure the King of Pop's three children are its beneficiaries. The court filing states that Jackson's parents believe he died without a valid will...
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The truth about black fathers
3:40 PM on 06/20/2009
To paraphrase Caesar, as he stood over the gallant Marc Antony, I come not to bury our Fathers, but to praise them, on this "Father's Day." Now, more than ever before, it is time to tell the truth about African American fathers. I think of my own my father, who...
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Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes
VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to "yes."...
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