New Angela Davis film recalls her powerful rise
REVIEW - Many words describe Angela Davis – radical, intellectual, Communist, feminist, rebel, scholar, revolutionary– but the story of her life can be defined by one: justice...
The NRA wasn't always against gun control
theGRIO REPORT - While today’s NRA takes hardline positions against even the most modest gun control measures, this was not always the case...
FBI has sordid history of probing personal lives
theGRIO REPORT - Long before the recent FBI probe of Gen. David Petraeus, leading to his resignation as CIA director, the FBI had an extensive history of investigating powerful people, including the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s...
Huey Newton backed gay rights in 1970 speech
theGRIO REPORT - It may come as a surprise to some of Huey Newton's admirers that he also articulated a compelling case for the rights of the gay community...
West condemns New Black Panthers for 'bounty'
Florida Congressman and Tear Party favorite Allen West is wading into the Trayvon Martin case but not to condemn his shooter, George Zimmerman...
Home where Black Panther Party founded flipped
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Black Panther party preached 'power to the people,' but in the San Francisco Bay area's thriving real estate market, the power is in the property...
Assata Shakur liberated from prison 32 years ago today
Queen Mother Assata Olugbala Shakur -- was freed from being held captive in a United Snakes concentration camp, on November 2nd 1979...
Supreme Court rules in favor of Mumia Abu-Jamal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request from prosecutors who want to re-impose a death sentence on former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal...
'Black Power Mixtape' is a time capsule of history
theGRIO REPORT - One of the most powerful chapters in the film 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975', involves a jailhouse interview with activist Angela Davis...
Court: Panelist secretly blocked ex-Panther's parole
ATLANTA (AP) - The panel's decision stopped short of releasing Bowers, who was convicted of the 1973 killing of Kenneth Patrick at Point Reyes National Seashore in California...
