Wade Robson: Michael Jackson abused me for 7 years
TODAY - The 30-year-old choreographer told Matt Lauer that Jackson, who died in 2009, was "a pedophile and a child sexual abuser."
Childhood trauma, fibroids linked
theGRIO REPORT - Research conducted within the Black Women's Health Study at Boston University School of Public Health recently found a link between childhood abuse and fibroids...
Child abuse linked to asthma in black women
BLACKDOCTOR.ORG - Physical and/or sexual abuse may be potential asthma causes in black women. In fact, abuse may more than double the odds of a child having asthma...
Police investigate 9-year-old rapper Lil' Poopy's music videos
BROCKTON, Massachusetts (AP) - A lawyer for the family of a 9-year-old Massachusetts rapper who appears in sexually suggestive videos is criticizing authorities' decision to investigate whether the boy is the victim of possible child abuse or neglect...
Mike Tyson plays child abuse victim on 'Law & Order: SVU'
NBC NEWS - In real life, the former undisputed heavyweight champ was arrested in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old beauty queen, Miss Black America hopeful Desiree Washington, in July of 1991...
Joe Jackson complains that parents today are too 'soft'
theGRIO REPORT - Joe Jackson, the patriarch of the infamous Jackson family of performers, argued that parents today are too 'soft' when it comes to disciplining their kids on a recent episode of CNN's 'Piers Morgan Tonight'...
Assault charges against Creflo Dollar dropped
theGRIO REPORT - Atlanta-based megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar is no longer facing assault charges stemming from a domestic dispute with his daughter, according to NBC's WXIA affiliate.
LL Cool J talks troubled youth with Oprah
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...
Secret black graveyards found at reform school
VIDEO - Scientists have found 19 previously unknown grave shafts on the grounds of a notorious Florida reform school, suggesting that many more boys died there amid brutal conditions than had previously been known, the researchers said Monday...
Mom, stepfather allegedly beat 7-year-old son to death
theGRIO REPORT - In Las Vegas, Nevada, second grader Roderick 'RJ' Arrington, age 7, was allegedly beaten to death by his mother and stepfather because he didn't read his Bible and do his homework...
