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New poll finds blacks motivated to vote in November

By theGrio

1:48 PM on 03/08/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism...

Katrina wrecks black political base, leaders say

By theGrio

4:27 PM on 01/08/2010

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The storm decimated once-thriving black, middle-class neighborhoods, undercutting efforts by black candidates to raise money and build voter support...

Obama and Dems weak-kneed on health care

By Karanja Gaçuça

7:40 AM on 12/22/2009

OPINION - Is the health care bill, as it is, worth the political capital that it has cost the President and the Democratic congress?

Once shunned, Senator Burris is now key player in health care debate

By theGrio

11:00 AM on 10/19/2009

A Democratic Senator, shunned by some members of his own party who were reluctant to even seat him, may now be a key player in the health care debate...

Young black voters came out for Obama, but may not return

By G'Ra Asim

8:12 AM on 07/29/2009

During last year's presidential campaign, the second-most talked about aspect of Barack Obama's historic candidacy was the fervor with which he was widely embraced among young people. His popularity with Generation Y, and particularly voters ages 18-24, was at least as attributable to the tech-savvy infrastructure of his campaign and...

Supreme Court narrowly approves Voting Rights Act exemption for TX district

By theGrio via AP

10:41 AM on 06/22/2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a small Texas governing authority from a key provision of the civil rights law. The court, with only one justice in partial dissent, avoided the major constitutional questions raised in the...

How the GOP can win back blacks

By Seth Johnson

12:29 AM on 06/08/2009

Republicans and the black vote. The thought sends Democrats into hysterical laughter. And Republicans? We'd rather change the subject. But Republicans should stop being afraid and start making the case to the very Americans - black Americans - that once made up one of the strongest coalitions in the early...

Abandoned 6-year-old escapes locked school bus

VIDEO - First-grader Tevin Smith said he fell asleep during the ride home from Estabrook Elementary in Ypsilanti, Michigan and woke up to find the bus parked in a bus yard...