New York Times News

New York Times asks if GOP is taking risk with racial comments

By theGrio

10:50 AM on 01/18/2012

If the general election campaign by Republicans against President Obama, the nation's first black president, goes on to include a fraught, multilayered discussion about minorities and entitlements...
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Nicki Minaj is a rising style muse

By theGrio

10:22 AM on 01/09/2012

Nicki Minaj could even claim Halloween last fall, judging from the scores of tutorials on YouTube for fans seeking her fluorescent look and ice cream swirl tresses...
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52-year-old prostitute successfully provides for her family

By theGrio

10:38 AM on 01/03/2012

Like many single mothers, Barbara Terry, 52, scrounged for baby sitters and leaned on her own mother while raising her four children and working the night shift...
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Bob Herbert to leave the New York Times

By theGrio

3:34 PM on 03/25/2011

Mr. Herbert's resignation was announced in a memo to Times staff members on Friday. His last column will appear in the paper on Saturday...
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Jay-Z's 'Decoded' hits New York Times best seller's list

By Clutch Magazine

4:15 PM on 11/29/2010

CLUTCH - Part memoir, part meditation on his lyrics, 'Decoded' gives Jay-Z's fans a glimpse into the mind of the man behind the iconic hits...
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Students 'hammer' away for success in the classroom

By theGrio

2:04 PM on 09/20/2010

VIDEO - "If I Had A Hammer" is teaching students much more than how to add and subtract, educating them in construction, and teaching them valuable lessons on teamwork, too...
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Paterson claims he made initial scandal leak

By theGrio

3:05 PM on 03/18/2010

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Paterson says he was the first to reveal to the media a conversation he had with the woman at the center of a domestic violence scandal involving a top aide...
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Africa's gift to Silicon Valley could prevent the next Katrina

By theGrio

11:11 AM on 03/15/2010

From The NY Times - Ushahidi, Swahili for "testimony", is a technological innovation that is revolutionizing crisis response and putting the power to observe and report directly in the hands of victims...
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Al Sharpton and Boyce Watkins discuss Tavis Smiley and 'black agenda'

By theGrio

2:52 PM on 03/01/2010

VIDEO - Last Tuesday black talk-show host and commentator Tavis Smiley criticized Rev. Al Sharpton over a New York Times article in which Sharpton was quoted as saying...
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NY EMTs say they did try to help dying woman

By theGrio

2:50 PM on 01/21/2010

NEW YORK (AP) -They tell The New York Times they never saw Eutisha Revee Rennix. They said that even if someone had led them to her, they didn't have the medical equipment to treat her...
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Obama: security system failed to connect the dots

By theGrio

8:43 AM on 12/30/2009

HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama says the intelligence community had information that it should have been pieced together before the Christmas Day attempted terror attack...
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NY Times gift guide for people of color is niche, not racist

By Lola Adesioye

11:29 AM on 12/14/2009

OPINION - The notion that anything that has "black" written on it is racist is simplistic and naive...
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