White House honors Memphis soul
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is celebrating the history and sound of Memphis soul music...
Revisiting MLK's death 45 years later
OPINION - Two years after their re-discovery, restored video footage of Dr. King’s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, in custody in Memphis as well as on trial, have been released just in time for the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s murder. ..
Decades after MLK's death, Memphis jobs at risk
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis' garbage — and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company...
Confederate past: Uproar over changing park names
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The statue of Confederate fighter Nathan Bedford Forrest astride a horse towers above the Memphis park bearing his name...
One of Young Buck's biggest fans: Taylor Swift
theGRIO REPORT - Country singer Taylor Swift revealed in a recent interview with VIBE that she used to drive past the home of fellow Nashville, Tennessee native and former member of G-Unit, Young Buck, and admire his vehicles...
MLK biopic 'Memphis' is back on track
theGRIO REPORT - A long in-development Martin Luther King Jr biopic, which was presumed shelved, is now reportedly back on track...
Museum to open balcony where MLK was shot to public
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis plans to open the balcony where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to the public...
Timberlake joins bid to buy Grizzlies
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Award-winning singer and actor Justin Timberlake has agreed to be part of the ownership group assembled by billionaire Robert Pera in his attempt to buy the Memphis Grizzlies, said a person familiar with the situation...
Mom beats children's football coach over molestation allegations
theGRIO REPORT - A Tennessee mother faces criminal charges after she nearly beat a kids' football coach to death with a baseball bat over claims he molested her sons...
Hit and run destroys church by fire
A Memphis congregation is dealing with lost of their church, Gateway Church of God in Christ was destroyed by a fire after it was struck by a passing vehicle in a hit and run accident.
