Race, politics and the fight to legalize marijuana

Donovan X. Ramsey

theGRIO REPORT - This past Election Day marked a sea change. Voters turned out in large numbers in support of new, progressive economic policies when they re-elected President Barack Obama. But they didn’t just stop there...

DEA arrests 91 in synthetic drug raid

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than $36 million in cash and arrested 91 people in a nationwide crackdown against manufacturers, distributors and vendors of synthetic designer drugs...

Denzel, Paula Patton rekindle on-screen romance

Chris Witherspoon

theGRIO REPORT - Academy Award winner Denzel Washington is back to work, filming another gritty crime drama, '2 Guns'...

Police confiscate 8 tons of marijuana

theGrio

CHICAGO - Police and federal DEA agents made what's believed to be one of the largest pot busts in Chicago's history this week, officials announced Thursday...

Rap mogul 'Jimmy Henchmen' arrested on drug charges

theGrio

(AP) - The fugitive was also recently accused by a convicted murderer of orchestrating a plot to ambush rapper Tupac Shakur outside a recording studio in the mid-1990s...

DEA's Lil Wayne drug search comes up empty

theGrio

MIAMI - Rapper Lil Wayne may have ended his beef with LeBron James, but the DEA is another matter....

Why the DEA's embrace of Ebonics is lost in translation

H.Samy Alim and Imani Perry

OPINION - The DEA may not have known the full ramifications of its decision to label the language of many African-Americans, "Ebonics," but we bet they know now...