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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – The Lions are 3-0 for the first time 1980, when they started 4-0. They are generating legitimate talk of making the playoffs for the first time since 1999…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – It was a city that was integral to the birth of the auto industry. It fell quicker and harder than any other Midwestern city…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – Ohio’s unemployment rate is at 9.1 percent as of August. Combine that with the high poverty rate, and there is a massive problem…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 19, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – Derrick Miller, the chief administrative officer to disgraced former mayor, received $568,000 in connection with a $117 million deal financed by the city’s pension fund…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – Disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick held court on a variety of subjects on Tuesday night, including his political future, as he promoted his new book…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 7, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – The biggest problem the president is facing is not whether people will switch sides. It’s whether people will turnout for him again…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 1, 2011
theGRIO REPORT – The money to pay these felons came from a $750 million-a-year subsidy program that helps over 150,000 poor families throughout the state of Illinois…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 19, 2011
OPINION – For there to be any chance for us, or any urban area with a violent history, to shake this, there needs to be cooperation between the authorities and the citizens…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
From TheGRIO — Just 3 percent of Detroit’s fourth graders and 4 percent of eighth graders meet national math standards. The often-disputed high school graduation rate was as low as 25 percent in 2007, by far the worst in the country…