Ole Miss' 1st black homecoming queen
theGRIO REPORT - History was made over the weekend when the University of Mississippi crowned its first African-American homecoming queen...
Statue of Fannie Lou Hamer unveiled in Mississippi
theGRIO REPORT - Hamer, who would have been 95 on Oct. 6, is remembered the world over as a woman who was 'sick and tired of being sick and tired'...
Robin Roberts finally home after transplant
theGRIO REPORT - 'There's no place like home,' Robin Roberts tweeted to her followers this morning after being released from the hospital yesterday...
Miami Dolphins go shopping with kids for Halloween
VIDEO - When you think Halloween you think ghouls and goblins, not the Miami Dolphins and shopping...
Residents get 'Coon Hunt' street name changed
theGRIO REPORT - After seven months of petitioning, a group of Columbia, Maryland residents gathered Monday for an official ceremony revealing their neighborhood's new street name.
Make-A-Wish girl meets Obama
theGRIO REPORT - Janiya Penny was granted her wish of meeting President Obama this year and the photograph of the emotional meeting has become an internet sensation...
Drake says college coach inspired him to finish school
theGRIO REPORT - Kentucky men's basketball has attracted the support of some of hip-hop's biggest names since head coach John Calipari's arrival in 2009. Rapper Drake may be one of the Wildcats' most visible fans and now he's taking it a step further - telling Kentucky's cn|2 that Calipari inspired him to finish high school.
$120 million lotto winner: 'Wow'
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - It may not have been immediate but California lottery winner Ronald Willis knows his life will never be the same again...
Man leaves hospital without a heart
CHICAGO - Leroy Hanes was able to leave Chicago's Advocate Christ Medical Center Thursday without his own heart. Thanks to 'the world's only totally artificial heart,' Hanes can keep living his life while he awaits a donor heart, according to a WMAQ-TV report...
For Muhammad Ali, a Liberty Medal in Philly
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Retired boxing champ Muhammad Ali was known as 'The Greatest' inside the ring. But some say the moniker has been even more fitting in the years since he hung up his gloves...
