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theGRIO REPORT – More than 2,000 students and supporters of Maryland’s four historically black colleges and universities will converge outside Maryland State House on Monday afternoon to lobby legislators for increased funding and support…
theGRIO REPORT – The new director, J.D. Patterson Jr., was one of six candidates in the running for the county’s most senior cop…
theGRIO REPORT – Police have responded to a shooting at a middle school in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon…
theGRIO REPORT – Dr. John S. Wilson Jr. has an outstanding resume. So much so he was headhunted after a rigorous nationwide search to take on the role as president of Morehouse College…
theGRIO REPORT – In a bizarre tale two African-American men are have been arrested for stealing tens of thousands of dollars of chicken wings from a cold storage facility in Georgia…
theGRIO REPORT – In a sit-down with Oprah Winfrey for an upcoming episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter, the rapper-turned-actor opened up about a friend of his mother savagely beating when he was a young child…
theGRIO REPORT – Sandra Appiah is on a mission. The 23-year-old wants to rebrand Africa and alter skewed perceptions of the continent….
theGRIO REPORT – The board of trustees at a college in Utah has unanimously voted to keep the word “Dixie” in its name despite critics saying the word has a racially insensitive link with the Civil War-era Confederacy…
theGRIO REPORT – Around 2,000 guests turned out to support this year’s Salute to Greatness Awards to honor trailblazers who have demonstrated a commitment to the principles and philosophy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…
theGRIO REPORT – Gordon Ponsford, who lives in the Acworth area of Georgia, was commissioned by the King Center to prepare the leather-bound King James Bible for the president’s swearing-in ceremony…
theGRIO REPORT – The tragic deaths of four African-American children who lost their lives in a house fire last week should be a wake-up call for families to have working smoke alarms, says a group of fire and public safety experts….
theGRIO REPORT – An innovative initiative using portable solar powdered lamps has been launched to help bring light to Haitians struggling to cope without electricity…
theGRIO REPORT – Hip-hop artists have oftentimes been criticized for glamorizing gun violence, with some rappers even brandishing guns in music videos or posing with weapons in ad campaigns…
theGRIO REPORT – Congresswoman Frederica Wilson has said she hopes justice will be served in the tragic case of 4-year-old Rilya Wilson who disappeared off the face of the earth while in foster care…
theGRIO REPORT – In recent years more and more have been cast in on-screen roles, not just in big budget U.S. films but also on American television…
theGRIO REPORT – Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has just announced his support of gay marriage, reversing the position he held during his 2010 mayoral campaign…
theGRIO REPORT – A professor at the University of Texas has sparked controversy following remarks that black students are failing academically because so many are raised in single parent households…
theGRIO REPORT – SThe accomplished actress has had an exciting and challenging year, with a flurry of projects already set for 2013…
theGRIO REPORT – Just hours after her former lover ended their relationship, Vanessa Marie Garrett-Rogers, 28, of Hiram, Georgia, drove into her victim, dragged him under her vehicle, and backed over him before fleeing the scene in July 2010…
theGRIO REPORT – The parents of a university student, who only learned of their daughter’s death through a post on Facebook, have hired their own attorney and private investigator….