10 states raise minimum wage in 2013
theGRIO REPORT - African-Americans make up about 15.1 percent of the 73.9 million minimum wage earners in America...
Viola Davis addresses high school alma mater
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) - Viola Davis on Thursday addressed graduating seniors at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up, urging them to treasure 'hard times and joyous moments'...
WATCH: 81-year-old wins $336 million lottery
VIDEO - An 81-year-old woman from Newport won last month's $336.4 million Powerball jackpot, sleeping with the winning ticket in her Bible until coming forward to claim the sixth-largest U.S. prize on Tuesday...
Streep donates $10,000 to school in Viola's honor
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) - Meryl Streep has donated $10,000 to a charter school in the struggling Rhode Island city of Central Falls after a plug from fellow actress and hometown favorite Viola Davis...
Newport Historical Society buys letter of freed slave
He was the country's first black music teacher, and led the Free African Union Society, believed to be the first association of African Americans in the country...
Viola Davis helps library in cash-strapped RI town
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) - The Adams Memorial Library said Monday that it got a $1,000 check from Davis, who grew up in Central Falls...
Mass. man jailed after plan to burn black churches
theGRIO REPORT - Jeffrey Smith, 46, has been sentenced to 15-months in prison after sending letters threatening to burn black churches and NAACP offices in three states...
Rhode Island Gov signs voter ID law, touts minority support
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced that he signed a voter ID bill into law and touted the support of "representatives of [the] state's minority communities"...
Why 'legalizing it' is at an all-time high
OPINION - No drug is harmless, but criminalizing the personal health risks associated with marijuana use just doesn't make sense...
'East Coast rapist' held on 1.5 million bail
VIDEO - The man accused of raping women in four East Coast states between 1997 and 2009 will be in court on Monday. 39-year-old Aaron Thomas, "The East Coast Rapist," was arrested on Friday...
