A transgender first lady on mag cover

theGRIO REPORT - In its fifth issue, upstart magazine Candy has embodied first lady Michelle Obama on its cover, modeled by transgender woman Connie Fleming...

Innocent Brooklyn man freed after year in prison

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - Ronald Bozeman was in good spirits according to the New York Post after being released from prison last week. Bozeman, 65, had spent over a year in jail for a crime he did not commit...

Nevada judge sets May hearing in OJ freedom bid

Ken Ritter, Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada judge set the stage Friday for former football star O.J. Simpson to testify for the first time in the Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping case...

Nicki Minaj compares herself to Jesus

Kyle Harvey

theGRIO REPORT - Comparing herself being a martyr like Jesus may ruffle some feathers but this style of rap is a throwback to Nicki’s original content...

Is the 'soda ban' biased against blacks?

theGrio

Lobbyists from major soda companies have been stopping New Yorkers on the street to sign "say no to #sodaban" petitions...

19th century middle class black household excavated

Similoluwa Ojurongbe

theGRIO REPORT - University of Michigan archaeologists have resumed their dig of the home to James Holliday, a freed slave and one of the first African-Americans to work as a cook at the Annapolis Naval Academy...

Blacks free to give thanks, even during slavery

Chika Oduah

theGRIO REPORT- African-Americans have long embraced the honored tradition of Thanksgiving, even during slavery...

5 most unjust convictions of black men that were overturned

News One

NEWS ONE - In the United States, there have been 272 post-conviction exonerations. In 161 cases, the affected persons were African-American. News One looks at 5 unjust convictions of black men...