WATCH: Unemployed vet seeks job, gets makeover
VIDEO - Alice Simpson came to the retired aircraft carrier looking for job leads -- which she gratefully received. But the peacetime vet ('81 to '85) left the event with a brand new look...
Urban Prep grads all college-bound again
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have been accepted to college for the third straight year in a row...
Rappers raise cash for KY tornado victims
theGRIO REPORT - Hip-hop artists from Kentucky have joined forces to raise money for the relief of those devastated by the powerful tornadoes that hit the region in March...
10-year-old saves younger brother from shooting
VIDEO - An award usually given to officers, 10 year old Jason is the youngest and only civilian recipient of the lifesaving award...
London subway stops named for Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis
LONDON (AP) - Hop on the Underground at 'Jesse Owen' station. After one stop change at 'Carl Lewis.' And then ride the Tube all the way to "'Michael Phelps'..
Anti-apartheid icon Mandela's life now online
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - At a news conference in Johannesburg Tuesday, Mandela's archivists and Google said their $1.25 million project to digitally preserve a record of the anti-apartheid leader's life is now online...
Barbershops offer free blood-pressure screening
theGRIO REPORT - At Wright's Barbershop in Denver, CO, Dr. Byron Connor, a volunteer in the program, says they're doing blood pressure and blood sugar screening, as well as referring people who do not have health insurance...
Octavia Spencer honored by Alabama hometown
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) - Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer is being honored at the Alabama Statehouse, where about 400 people turned out to welcome her back to her hometown...
James Fortune goes from homesless to chart-topping gospel singer
ATLANTA (AP) - James Fortune used to watch his children sleep in the bathtub before he lay beside his pregnant wife at night in a motel, wondering how he was going to provide for his family the next day....
Sean Penn's Haiti work earns humanitarian prize
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Actor Sean Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake...
