Your Black News Hot off the Grio – 10/26/09

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  Hampton University basketball player in critical condition after shooting

  By theGrio

  3:20 PM on 10/26/2009

  HAMPTON, Va. - Senior Hampton University basketball captain and forward Theo Smalling was injured early Saturday morning in what a Hampton University (HU) Spokesperson called a senseless accident...

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  Uncle Remus museum still grapples with race issues

  By theGrio

  11:40 AM on 10/26/2009

  Elementary school students in the room shriek with delight at Wren's Nest, the very house where newspaperman and author Joel Chandler Harris brought the mischievous characters...

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  Madonna plants tree to launch Malawi girls school

  By theGrio

  11:08 AM on 10/26/2009

  LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) -- Madonna is marking the start of construction at her school for girls in Malawi...

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  23-year-old basketball player dies of heart attack

  By theGrio

  10:00 AM on 10/26/2009

  LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Kevin Widemond, a 23-year-old American guard, died of a heart attack during a Portuguese basketball tournament...

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