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Basketball team taunted by crowd with racial slurs, banana suits
6:51 PM on 02/08/2012
BRENTWOOD, Pa. (AP) - Athletic tensions between two Pittsburgh-area high schools one largely white, the other predominantly black have boiled over into accusations of racism that some say is being swept under the rug...
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BYU student video shows Black History Month ignorance
4:50 PM on 02/08/2012
VIDEO - Although all Americans -- not just African-Americans-- are expected to commemorate this month, a student a Brigham Young University is trying to prove this is not the case...
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Beyoncé L'Oreal ad controversy inspires black community backlash
4:33 PM on 02/08/2012
theGRIO REPORT - Beyoncé Knowles' heritage is described as 'African-American, Native American' and 'French' in a new L'Oreal commercial for its True Match foundation...
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Brutal Atlanta beating of gay youth leads to calls for new hate crime laws
4:13 PM on 02/08/2012
theGRIO REPORT - Brandon White, who is openly gay, says he just wants the men who attacked him to be held accountable for their actions...
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Kelly Rowland on 'Chelsea Lately' talks Grammy nomination and new man
3:05 PM on 02/08/2012
Kelly also talks about how 'Here I Am' is an album about being sexy and finding empowerment in your thirties...
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TheGrio's 100: Andrew 'Bo' Young, III, changing the way we give
2:04 PM on 02/08/2012
theGRIO's 100 - Andrew 'Bo' Young, III is the CEO of Give Locally, a website that pre-screens and posts the needs of everyday Americans on the site...
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TV topples and kills toddler in Chicago
1:03 PM on 02/08/2012
VIDEO - A 1-year-old boy died Tuesday after a television toppled onto him in his Chicago home...
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Black filmmaker debunks America's 'obesity crisis'
12:05 PM on 02/08/2012
theGRIO REPORT - Even with the number of obese Americans rising -- over 72 million adults and 12.5 million children and adolescents -- Darryl Roberts, filmmaker and director of America the Beautiful 2, explains that talking about obesity is missing the mark...
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Greg Jones, Giants linebacker, proposes to girlfriend after Super Bowl
9:41 AM on 02/08/2012
New York Giants' linebacker Greg Jones won twice on Super Bowl Sunday. After his team's last minute victory he proposed to his girlfriend Amanda Piechowski...
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Michelle Obama beats 'Late Night' host Jimmy Fallon in fitness challenge
8:53 AM on 02/08/2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama and 'Late Night' host Jimmy Fallon turned the White House into a playground to promote the first lady's "Let's Move!" fitness campaign....
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TheGrio's 100: Nicole Lyons, car builder, drag racer and one of few women of color in the industry
8:29 AM on 02/08/2012
theGRIO's 100 - In 2005, Lyons became the first black woman in professional stock racing. The following year she built an 1,100 horsepower engine, which broke records...
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Why Santorum's wins are good for President Obama
8:04 AM on 02/08/2012
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama's re-election operation, already benefiting from last week's announcement that the unemployment rate continues to drop, got more good news on Tuesday night: Mitt Romney can't quickly wrap up the GOP nomination process.
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Rick Santorum sweeps Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri
11:05 PM on 02/07/2012
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Rick Santorum says his victories in Minnesota's caucuses and Missouri's non-binding primary are triumphs for conservatism and the tea party movement...
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Charles Dickens characters: Were they drawn from real-life black Londoners?
5:51 PM on 02/07/2012
theGRIO REPORT - In Charles Dickens' London, there was a diverse population of all backgrounds: a large Irish population, a significant Jewish population, and a very visible population of African origin...
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Brandy and Monica's new song: 'It All Belongs to Me'
5:30 PM on 02/07/2012
theGRIO REPORT - The song truly shows how much the two singers have matured and grown, not only as artists but as women...
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Obama shoots marshmallow gun during White House science fair
4:27 PM on 02/07/2012
VIDEO - President Obama launched shots from a marshmallow gun at a science fair that took place in the White House...
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President Obama still 'evolving' on gay marriage
3:19 PM on 02/07/2012
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama is remaining on the sidelines in the gay marriage debate, even as a California federal appeals court on Tuesday declared the state's gay marriage debate unconstitutional...
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Magic Johnson on National Black AIDS Awareness day: 'Bring the numbers down'
1:36 PM on 02/07/2012
It's estimated that at some point in our lifetime, 1 in 16 black men will be diagnosed as HIV positive and 1 in 32 women will contract HIV...
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Family sues morgue for losing mother's body for 14 months
12:25 PM on 02/07/2012
VIDEO - Carmelita Johnson's body was found three months after she went missing in Jan. 2010, but it stayed in the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office for more than a year because nobody knew who she was...
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Obama Super PAC decision embrace could be a major boon for Democrats
12:20 PM on 02/07/2012
theGRIO REPORT-The Obama campaign's decision to embrace so-called Super PACs could be a boon for the Democratic ones, both of which are led in part by African-Americans.
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Basketball team taunted by crowd with racial slurs, banana suits
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BYU student video shows Black History Month ignorance
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Beyoncé L'Oreal ad controversy inspires black community backlash
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Brutal Atlanta beating of gay youth leads to calls for new hate crime laws
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Kelly Rowland on 'Chelsea Lately' talks Grammy nomination and new man
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Beyoncé's post-baby body is hers -- not ours
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GLAAD: Why CNN's Roland Martin shouldn't get a pass for homophobic tweets
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Nicki Minaj and 'Marilyn Monroe': Is she perpetuating white female beauty standard?
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