Tony Scott's hits with Hollywood's biggest black stars
SLIDESHOW - As friends, collaborators and fans weigh in on his tragic death, take a look back with theGrio at Tony Scott's high-profile work with African-American actors...
Police release video in Chavis Carter patrol car shooting
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Video recorded the night a young man was fatally shot in a patrol car while his hands were cuffed behind his back is doing little to answer questions about whether he shot himself in the head as officers said...
Family of man shot by off-duty officer speaks out
theGRIO REPORT - Blanca Winters, 47, of Chicago, said it was 'a shocking moment' when she heard that her 26-year-old son Christopher Middleton was shot dead following an altercation sparked after a police officer’s motorcycle skidded into his daughter...
Ex-WBA boxing champion dies at 54
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Michael Dokes, a former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, has died. He was 54...
'Malcolm X' actor Albert Freeman Jr. dies at 78
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's epic film, 'Malcolm X,' has died. He was 78...
White president of NAACP at HBCU found dead
The first white president of a student chapter of NAACP at an HBCU has been mysteriously found dead...
Jamaican DJ Ranking Trevor dies in road crash
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Ranking Trevor, a pioneer of rap reggae during the 1970s, has died in a traffic accident in Jamaica. He was 60...
Remembering a Montgomery bus boycott hero
VIDEO - When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to sit at the back of the bus, Thelma Glass went to work organizing a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama...
Remembering Sherman Hemsley
SLIDESHOW - A look back at the highlights of Sherman Hemsley's career ...
'Jeffersons' star Sherman Hemsley dead at 74
theGRIO REPORT - Sherman Hemsley, the beloved comic actor who made George Jefferson of The Jeffersons a TV icon and a household name has reportedly died at age 74, according to TMZ...
