Morehouse College athletes charged with raping Spelman student
theGRIO REPORT - The alleged victim claims she was held against her will inside a room on campus at the East Suites on March 8th during Spring Break...
Lawyer: Girl, family wanted Steubenville rape case pursued
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The lawyer for a 16-year-old girl raped by two Ohio high school football players is disputing a prosecutor's account that the girl's father initially wanted the investigation dropped...
Petitions target Rick Ross, hip-hop for rape lyrics
theGRIO REPORT - Recent petitions have been launched on RapRehab.com and Change.org calling on hip-hop star Rick Ross to take responsibility and apologize for his lyrics referencing date rape on his new single, 'U.O.E.N.O. (You Ain't Even Know It)'...
Rick Ross date rape lyric causes uproar
OPINION - a verse on the song 'You Don’t Even Know,' Ross raps about drugging a woman, and then raping her while she is incoherent...
Steubenville: A wake-up call for young black men
OPINION - What’s most disturbing about this whole case is just how ordinary it is. This wasn’t an aberration, the result of some particularly vile and demented boys deciding to rape a young girl...
Lessons learned from the Steubenville rape case
OPINION - Perhaps young women may now begin to analyze past sexual experiences that should have been classified as rape, but weren’t because the young woman blamed herself as society had conditioned her to do...
Key witnesses expected in Steubenville rape trial
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Ohio prosecutors prepared to call key eyewitnesses in their case against two high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party last summer...
Steubenville rape trial focuses on girl's intoxication
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) - The trial of two Ohio high school football players accused of raping a 16-year-old girl began as a contest between prosecutors insisting the girl was too drunk to consent to sex and defense attorneys portraying her as someone who was intoxicated but still in control of her actions...
Prosecutor: Steubenville school rape victim didn't consent
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A 16-year-old girl was "substantially impaired" after an alcohol-fueled party, was unable to consent to sex and suffered humiliation and degradation when she was raped by two high school football players, a prosecutor said Wednesday in her opening statement at the boys' trial.
Steubenville: Acquaintance rape is not a myth
OPINION - The idea that the young girl caused her own rape because of her choices lets Mays and Richmond duck the responsibility to explain their actions...
