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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 10, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Malcolm Shabazz, the 27-year-old grandson of the late Malcolm X, is dead, the Amsterdam News reported Thursday…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Wade Robson, celebrity choreographer and former friend of Michael Jackson, filed a claim against Jackson’s estate alleging that the pop star molested him for seven years…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 9, 2013
OPINION – Recently, thousands of people gathered in D.C. in front of the Capitol to demand comprehensive immigration reform which includes a pathway to citizenship and a cessation of the indiscriminate criminalization of undocumented immigrants…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 8, 2013
CLEVELAND – Cynthia Conner spent Tuesday night the same way she’d spent Monday evening: standing in the middle of Seymour Avenue, gazing at a white house with red trim…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 8, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s says it will reach out to a man widely quoted in accounts of the three women who were found in Cleveland after they went missing about a decade ago…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 8, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. – Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning will have another chance to prove his innocence in the murders of two college students more than two decades ago after the Mississippi Supreme Court voted eight to one to grant him a stay of execution…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 7, 2013
OPINION – In the past year, two public figures made international news by opening up about their sexuality: Jason Collins in the NBA and Frank Ocean in R&B…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 7, 2013
OPINION – The NRA, which has been in the spotlight since the brutal murders in Newtown, Connecticut, seems to be redoubling efforts to resist any legislation regulating the use or sale of firearms…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. – Attorneys for a death row inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1992 are hoping that a hair sample holds the key to exonerating their client…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – Hip-hop and corporate America have maintained a relatively healthy marriage over the years, but recent debacles between brands and their musical associates suggest a divorce could be looming in the near future…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 6, 2013
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The defense and the government have filed a joint court motion that asks a judge to release one of the friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) from federal custody while awaiting trial…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 6, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ricardo Campo, a burly and jolly native of El Salvador, and President Barack Obama both have a huge investment in Congress’ attempt to overhaul U.S. immigration laws…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
May 4, 2013
OPINION – It is a tragedy to travel to this deeply historical country of Ethiopia…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – It wasn’t our parents who introduced us to Assata Shakur. It was Hip-Hop. Chuck D of Public Enemy broke the thick, cold ice when he bellowed, ‘supporter of Chesimard!’in the group’s seminal song ‘Rebel Without A Pause’…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 28, 2013
OPINION – The notion of what constitutes as Muslim is a fascinating one both to non-Muslims and within the larger Islamic community itself…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 23, 2013
OPINION – The fact that we’re having the debate at all could be seen as progress in itself, given that in the previous administration, cases like that of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — were often handled quite differently….
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Donald Trump used his Twitter account on Sunday to attack the five men convicted — and later exonerated — in the Central Park Jogger case in 1989…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 19, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Barack Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 19, 2013
NBC NEWS – With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives out the window…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
April 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – A Port Canaveral, Florida police officer has been fired for bringing targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range…