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A better look at the rift between black Americans and Africans
7:55 AM on 08/12/2009
...her sister "hated" African American women because they try to take their men. I was stunned.
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Obama departs Ghana
11:13 AM on 07/13/2009
President Obama and family are back at the White House now, returning overnight from their week-long trip to Europe and Africa. NBC White House Correspondent Savannah Guthrie reports on his final stop in the West African nation of Ghana....
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What the Obama girls did this summer
7:10 AM on 07/13/2009
The Obama daughters will have plenty to write about in their "What did you do this summer?" essay. In Moscow, Mrs. Obama and the girls spent time at a National Folk Dance, on a tour of the Kremlin, and just 48 hours after their dad signed a deal with Russia...
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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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The Obamas in Africa: the people's perspective
4:50 PM on 07/10/2009
President Obama's visit to Africa is the first time the first African American President steps on the continent. From African governments, there is a relief that Africa is not placed on the backburner and unlike other US Presidents; he has visited Africa fairly early in his Presidency. However the choice...
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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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The rift between African Americans and Africans
9:08 AM on 07/10/2009
Since living in America I've discovered a deep-rooted, and often unspoken, prejudice against Africans within the African American community. Some time ago, as I sat on a train from lower Manhattan up to Harlem, I overheard a strange conversation. An African American woman talked animatedly with her friends about a...
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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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Black American culture exported to Africa
11:14 AM on 07/09/2009
In April I delivered the W.E.B. Du Bois lectures at Harvard University. In this series of lectures I took up issues surrounding African American citizenship in the contemporary United States. I tried to think about how the years between Hurricane Katrina and the election of Barack Obama have created new...
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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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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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