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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...

BYU student video shows Black History Month ignorance

By Ashley Michelle Williams

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...

Beyoncé L'Oreal ad controversy inspires black community backlash

By Alexis Garrett Stodghill

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...

Brutal Atlanta beating of gay youth leads to calls for new hate crime laws

By Kunbi Tinuoye

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...

Kelly Rowland on 'Chelsea Lately' talks Grammy nomination and new man

By Briana Lopes

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...

TheGrio's 100: Andrew 'Bo' Young, III, changing the way we give

By Keosha Johnson

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...

TV topples and kills toddler in Chicago

By theGrio

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...

Black filmmaker debunks America's 'obesity crisis'

By Dr. Tyeese Gaines

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...

Greg Jones, Giants linebacker, proposes to girlfriend after Super Bowl

By theGrio

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...

Michelle Obama beats 'Late Night' host Jimmy Fallon in fitness challenge

By theGrio

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....

TheGrio's 100: Nicole Lyons, car builder, drag racer and one of few women of color in the industry

By Keosha Johnson

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...

Why Santorum's wins are good for President Obama

By Perry Bacon Jr.

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.

Rick Santorum sweeps Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri

By theGrio

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...

Charles Dickens characters: Were they drawn from real-life black Londoners?

By Karl Bostic

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...

Brandy and Monica's new song: 'It All Belongs to Me'

By Oelania Pena

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...

Obama shoots marshmallow gun during White House science fair

By theGrio

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...

President Obama still 'evolving' on gay marriage

By Perry Bacon Jr.

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...

Magic Johnson on National Black AIDS Awareness day: 'Bring the numbers down'

By theGrio

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...

Family sues morgue for losing mother's body for 14 months

By theGrio

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...

Obama Super PAC decision embrace could be a major boon for Democrats

By Perry Bacon Jr.

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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