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Scene of Friday night's deadly shooting, in which Mark Carson was killed. (Courtesy NBC New York)

Anti-gay crimes spike in NYC, rally planned to denounce violence

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NBC New York - Gay activists and supporters shaken by a series of violent attacks, including a fatal shooting in the West Village on Friday, plan to rally Monday as statistics show anti-gay crimes have nearly doubled this year...
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Image from the “United Against Childhood Obesity” day in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 27, 2013. Photographer Robb D. Cohen

Ga. residents fight childhood obesity

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - More than 30 organizations turned out at the Georgia state Capitol on Wednesday to rally against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity in the state...
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Students march through the Loop protesting the city's plan to close more than 50 elementary schools on March 25, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Last week the city announced the plan claiming it was necessary to rein in a looming $1 billion budget deficit. The closings would shift about 30,000 students to new schools and leave more than 1,000 teachers with uncertain futures. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Chicago Teachers Union, supporters gear up for rally on school closings

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - As students of the third-largest school district in the nation enter their second day of spring break, many of them are spending their vacation protesting the proposed closing of 54 Chicago public schools...
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Guns collected in Camden buy back program (Associated Press)

Gun control rally held in Harlem: Why we are marching

Iesha Sekou
OPINION - Stronger background checks for guns and ammunition will keep weapons away from people who might sell them or use them for crime...
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Demonstrators rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013 to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. Gun owners say they are gathering at the state Capitol for one of a slate of firearms-rights demonstrations around the nation. New York this week passed the nation's toughest assault weapon and magazine restrictions. (AP Photo/Tim Roske)

Rallies against stricter gun control draw hundreds

Will Weissert, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Hundreds of gun owners and Second Amendment advocates rallied in state capitals nationwide Saturday, days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals....
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks to reporters outside prior to the debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University on October 22, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Romney, Florida GOP gov hold rally in town Trayvon Martin was killed

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theGRIO REPORT - Republican governor Rick Scott made time to campaign alongside GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Sanford, Fla., the town where unarmed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin was killed earlier this year...
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Romney supporters insult a cardboard Obama cut-out at a recent Romney/Ryan rally. (Source: Alan Franklin YouTube)

Romney backers tell Obama: 'Go back to Kenya!'

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Mitt Romney supporters didn't have kind things to say Monday night when a member of liberal group ProgressNow held up a cardboard cut-out of President Barack Obama as people lined up outside...
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Medical marijuana supporters to hold rally in DC

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WASHINGTON - A pro-medical marijuana group is trying to put pressure on the D.C. government to speed up its new medical marijuana program on Thursday.
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NAACP holds rally for Trayvon Martin in LA

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Civil rights leaders and relatives of Trayvon Martin and a slain California teenager joined together at a Los Angeles rally Thursday...
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Miami holds hometown rally for Trayvon

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - Thousands of supporters gathered in downtown Miami Sunday, in what was billed as a hometown rally for the family of Trayvon Martin...
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