Civil rights groups: Investigate NYPD spying
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Civil rights groups in the Northeast pressed Thursday for an investigation of the New York Police Department's secret surveillance of Muslims in the region...
WATCH: 24-year-old Ithaca mayor channels Obama
VIDEO - At just 24-years-old, Svante Myrick is the youngest mayor ever elected in the city of Ithaca, New York...
Grio’s 100: Rep. Yvette Clarke, congressional star
theGRIO's 100 - Rep. Yvette Clarke is a Brooklyn native and the youngest African American to serve in the U.S. Congress...
Ex-Playboy model wins $1.2M in case against NYPD
A Manhattan jury of four women and two men took 81/2 hours deliberating before tossing fistfuls of money at Miss November 1992, Stephanie Adams, 41, for the injuries she suffered in a 2006 scuffle with police...
Cory Booker: NYPD misled us on Muslim spying
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods...
NYC councilwoman calls to boycott Harlem restaurant Cedric
According to the email, five black women were in the middle of a meal and cocktails at Cedric when Lecendre asked them to move to make way for a party of four customers, who were white and whom he said had reservations...
Grio’s 100: Rep. Frederica Wilson, fights for voiceless
theGRIO's 100 - Rep. Frederica Wilson has made a great name for herself as she represents the 17th congressional district of Florida...
New York mag makes a monkey out of Obama
OPINION - New York magazine published a picture meant to show President Obama's evolution on the issue gay marriage. What made the photograph controversial is the fact that the picture shows the president evolving from an ape to a human...
Got protest? Russell Simmons mad over milk
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Music mogul Russell Simmons wants New York's governor to pull the plug on milk from cows...
NYC woman to plead guilty to 1987 kidnapping
NEW YORK - A woman charged with stealing a baby from a hospital more than 24 years ago is expected to plead guilty in federal court in Manhattan on Friday, according to a court document...
