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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – The medical examiner who testified in the George Zimmerman trial says his office, state prosecutors and police had no interest in convicting the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin and set him up to take the blame for a failed prosecution…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 11, 2013
OPINION – Call it ‘afro-mentum’ Call it the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Either way, Bill de Blasio’s sweeping victory in the New York Democratic primary for mayor is a hint of change progressives can believe in…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
September 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Twelve years later, with a new administration in office, and the country once again considering middle action in the Middle East (in fact, in the country next door to Iraq — Syria); we look back on the many ways 9/11 changed everything…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 25, 2013
ANALYSIS – We forget that civil rights was a contested process, and that assumptions about black violence made the public believe the march was a risky undertaking…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – A Washington D.C. woman says a weekend trip to see the movie, ‘The Butler’ was marred by the presence of police inside the theater…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 17, 2013
OPINION – In an op-ed for the Washington Post, Ben Crump, one of the attorneys representing the parents of Trayvon Martin, issued a political call to action…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
August 1, 2013
OPINION – It’s been 42 months – three and a half years – since Haiti’s calamitous January 12, 2010 earthquake killed hundreds of thousands and left a million destitute in the hemisphere’s poorest nation…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 31, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Twitter has been having a field day with Riley Cooper…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 30, 2013
OPINION – Anthony Weiner was right about one thing: Clarence Thomas has a serious conflict of interest …
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 30, 2013
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Seeking to ease Washington gridlock, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Republicans to accept a new fiscal deal to cut corporate tax rates in exchange for more government spending on jobs programs…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 29, 2013
theGRIO SLIDESHOW – It’s carnival time in Ayiti. Sunday kicked off with a bang with what appeared to be a few hundred thousand people piling into Champs de Mars for the ‘Carnaval des Fleurs’ – the Carnival of Flowers…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – On the night of June 26th, Traymon Williams was driving with his girlfriend, DeShonda Robinson, and her younger brother, Kelvin Robinson, Jr., when he noticed a police car following close behind him…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – When she went public in an on-camera interview with ABC News, the juror in the George Zimmerman trial previously known only as B29 addressed a lot of questions including the most obvious one…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 25, 2013
OPINION – But as I write you today, I am angry … saddened even, because I cannot provide for you the world that you absolutely deserve…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Jordan’s parents can’t help to see the similarities between their son’s killing and that of Trayvon Martin…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – Marissa Alexander’s daughter turns three today but there is not plan for a birthday party. Instead, the 31-year-old remains in a Duval County Florida jail awaiting the latest hearing in her case…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – On Saturday, the conservative publication’s ‘Cartoon of the Day’ by Investor’s Business Daily’s Michael Ramirez depicted Sharpton as a lynching tree, with four lynched bodies labeled “truth” hanging from its extended limb…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT – West may disagree with President Obama (and a majority of African-Americans) about the experience of being a black man in America, but his opinion on the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case isn’t in total alignment with fellow conservatives…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 21, 2013
OPINION – The president made history Friday, in a nearly 18 minute address, delivered off-prompter, and from the gut…
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
July 21, 2013
OPINION – Black America is still grieving the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, and the sense that racial profiling of young black men has yet again been given the stamp of approval by most of white America? Well get over it already…!