Romney storm relief efforts met with skepticism

theGRIO REPORT - The Romney campaign's decision Tuesday to suddenly change a scheduled victory rally in Ohio into a storm-relief event in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is being criticized by pundits as a staged photo opportunity...

Region hit by Sandy struggles to resume life

Adam Geller, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster...

Hurricane Sandy gains power and aims for Northeast

Allen G. Breed and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A fast-strengthening Hurricane Sandy churned north Monday, raking ghost-town cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts. Subways and schools were closed across the region of 50 million people...

White teens in blackface re-enact Chris Brown-Rihanna beating

Abdul Sada

theGRIO REPORT - Three white high school students in Waverly, New York, performed a satirical 're-enactment' of Chris Brown's infamous beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna, in blackface, at a pep rally in front of students, parents, community leaders, and the media...

Spike Lee's Michael Jackson doc to briefly be in theaters

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - Spike Lee's highly anticipated documentary about the making of Michael Jackson's classic 'Bad' album will be making a brief stop in theaters in select cities this fall...

20 bystanders lift car to free pinned grandmother, toddlers

Andrew Siff

VIDEO - Nearly two dozen Good Samaritans rushed to rescue a woman and her two toddler grandchildren when they were run over by an elderly driver in a busy section of Brooklyn Friday afternoon, authorities and witnesses said...

NY court considers: Is gang member a terrorist?

Michael Virtanen, Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In August 2002, a New York City street gang crashed a christening party, shouted out their superiority, confronted a rival and started a fight that left a 10-year-old girl dead and someone else paralyzed...

Jay-Z opens Barclays Center with Brooklyn love

Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - The newly built Barclays Center is the home of the Brooklyn Nets, and the team's co-owner, Jay-Z, christened the venue Friday night in uniform...

Version of Emancipation Proclamation to be displayed in Harlem

Melissa Noel

theGRIO REPORT - The only remaining version of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting will begin an eight city tour this week.

Suspect arrested in deadly Bronx shooting of African immigrant

Patrice Peck

theGRIO REPORT - New York police arrested suspect Freddie McGrier in the deadly shooting of 28-year-old Lamin Sillah, a recent Gambian transplant who put himself through school and sent money to his wife and family back home by working as a gas station attendant in the Bronx...