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'The Obamas': Jodi Kantor White House book paints personal portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama

By Donna M Owens

12:00 PM on 01/12/2012

REVIEW - The book has 360 pages of dialogue and intimate details, giving the impression of being inside the minds of the first couple and other players...
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Michelle Obama, 'sharp elbows' and the angry black woman stereotype

By Alexis Garrett Stodghill

3:00 PM on 01/11/2012

OPINION - It is as though reporters are salivating at the idea that Michelle Obama must be 'angry' and hyper-masculine behind the scenes as a secret negative complement to her feminine public persona...
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Controversial 'The Obamas' author grilled over White House pushback

By theGrio

1:45 PM on 01/09/2012

From Mediaite: The Obamas, which claims -- among other things -- that there are tensions between White House staff and the first lady...
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Rahm Emanuel says he has 'great relationship' with first lady: Disputes claims in 'The Obamas' book

By theGrio

11:52 AM on 01/09/2012

Rahm Emanuel, who was touting a $660 million school infrastructure project, told reporters that he still has a "great relationship" with the Obama family...
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Michelle Obama vs. Rahm Emanuel: New book 'The Obamas' alleges feud between first lady and ex-Chief of Staff

By theGrio

7:39 PM on 01/06/2012

The dramatics that surrounded the passage of health care reform -- reflect the type of high-pitched struggle that routinely erupted between Emanuel and the first lady during the first two years of the Obama administration...
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Michelle Obama returns to Chicago for food summit

By theGrio

11:27 AM on 10/25/2011

CHICAGO - First lady Michelle Obama returns to Chicago Tuesday to check out Mayor Rahm Emanuel's "food desert summit" and raise money for her husband's 2012 re-election...
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Michelle Obama returns to Chicago for food summit

By theGrio

4:21 PM on 10/20/2011

First Lady Michelle Obama returns to Chicago next week to check out Mayor Rahm Emanuel's "food desert summit" and raise money for the 2012 re-election...
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Jennifer Hudson to open Chicago weight loss center

By theGrio

9:42 AM on 09/27/2011

CHICAGO (AP) -- Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson hopes to show her commitment to a healthier lifestyle with the opening of a new weight loss center in Chicago...
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Chicago to publish 10 years of crime stats online

By theGrio

4:00 PM on 09/14/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - It will be updated daily, providing fodder for residents to evaluate their own neighborhoods, academics to study crime and techie types to create websites or apps...
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Chicago lawmaker: 'Black people want guns'

By theGrio

1:41 PM on 09/08/2011

A West Side democratic state legislator has suggested after a heated town hall meeting that he may support a measure allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons if it crossed his desk again...
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New top cop to change 'paradigm of policing' in Chicago

By Michelle Balani

1:00 PM on 07/28/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Can the former Newark police director gain the support of the black community in Chicago and reduce crime in the city's toughest neighborhoods?...
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Chicago's top cop: gun laws akin to 'racism'

By theGrio

2:35 PM on 06/24/2011

VIDEO - "This is sensitive. You know, because everybody's afraid of race. Have you noticed that? Everybody's afraid of race. I'm not afraid of race," said McCarthy...
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Jesse Jackson Jr. takes stand at Blagojevich retrial

By theGrio

11:31 AM on 05/25/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - The defense said Wednesday that Jackson would testify that he never offered or directed anyone to offer campaign contributions for the Senate seat being vacated by President Obama...
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Can a black mayor ever rise again in Chicago?

By David A. Love

8:18 AM on 02/23/2011

OPINION - It depends on whether there is a willingness to take a lesson from the playbook of Harold Washington, Chicago's first and only elected black mayor...
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Race-baiting won't win Chicago mayor race for Braun

By Javier E. David

9:22 AM on 02/22/2011

OPINION - Chicago voters should be free to vote for whomever they wish, without baseless attacks on their racial or ethnic authenticity...
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Is Carol Moseley Braun 'cracking' under the pressure?

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

9:57 AM on 02/01/2011

OPINION - By flying off the handle in this way, Moseley Braun has made others begin to question her mental stability...
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Braun slams opponent: 'You were strung out on crack'

By theGrio

5:45 PM on 01/31/2011

VIDEO - Carol Moseley Braun is in trouble for publicly busting out the kind of insult that Rahm Emanuel only uses in private...
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State court: Rahm Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor

By theGrio

6:51 PM on 01/27/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the Feb. 22 ballot by an Illinois appellate court for not meeting a residency requirement...
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Many Chicago voters want say on Rahm Emanuel

By theGrio

3:18 PM on 01/27/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicagoans are having no trouble summing up their thoughts about the drama now before the Illinois Supreme Court over Rahm Emanuel's name appearing on next month's mayoral ballot...
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Court halts ballots without Rahm Emanuel's name

By theGrio

1:54 PM on 01/25/2011

CHICAGO (AP) - Emanuel has asked the court to overturn a lower ruling that threw him off the ballot because he had not lived in the city for a year...
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