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Deandre Arnold thegrio.com
February 2, 2020
Celebrity couple Gabrielle Union and former Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade invited DeAndre Arnold, a Houston-area teen whose high school officials told him he wouldn’t graduate if he did not cut his dreadlocks, to the Oscars.
January 30, 2020
Jorge Anderson El, a homeless activist, is on a crusade to give congressman John Lewis his flowers now, rather than waiting too late
Allen Iverson thegrio.com
January 29, 2020
Allen Iverson says he is grateful for the recovery of a backpack he was carrying that happened to have $500,000 in it that was stolen from a Philadelphia hotel lobby
Dylann Roof
January 29, 2020
Dylann Roof is appealing his death sentence related to the 2015 fatal shooting of nine Black parishioners inside an historic Charleston, S.C., Black church.
Darrell Scott
January 29, 2020
Maybe money can’t buy love, but allies of President Donald Trump may think it can buy votes from Black Americans.
Antonio Litman
January 29, 2020
A homeless man has been charged with murder and arson in connection with the death of Brooklyn philanthropist L. Antonio Litman.
Corporal Michael Owen Jr
January 29, 2020
A police officer in a Maryland is being charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a man who was handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car.
Kobe Bryant Oscar theGrio.com
January 29, 2020
The Academy Awards gala will include a tribute to late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash Sunday at the age of 41.
Knife Holder theGrio.com
January 29, 2020
An Ocala, Fla., boy is facing charges of attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed his little sister with a kitchen knife while chanting “die, die, die.”
Aaron Hernandez theGrio.com
January 29, 2020
Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez believes Netflix should have been careful about exploring questions of Aaron Hernandez’s sexuality without him around to respond.
December 31, 2019
After running an essay that has been criticized as boosting a sect of Jewish culture as more intelligent, the newspaper is pulling back one of its citations
Damon Dash thegrio.com
December 30, 2019
Hip-hop impresario Damon Dash angrily blasted a lawsuit accusing him of non-consensual sexual touch and says he’s the one being victimized
Donald Trump and Barack Obama
December 30, 2019
Unsurprisingly, in a new Gallup poll, Obama remains popular among Democrats while Trump is enjoying unwavering support among Republicans
Ice Cube thegrio
December 30, 2019
With the death of funnyman John Witherspoon, Ice Cube is unsure of the direction of the franchise and says distributor New Line Cinema has the final say
John Lewis thegrio.com
December 30, 2019
Immediately after Georgia congressman John Lewis revealed that he is battling stage IV pancreatic cancer, an outpouring of support erupted
December 30, 2019
The former president is apparently making good use of his Netflix subscription as several of his picks are streaming on the service
Wisconsin
December 30, 2019
The Wisconsin bill, which credits more whites than Blacks in its observance, has met with frustration among African American state legislators
Anti-Semitic
December 30, 2019
Rev. Al Sharpton and a group of Black and Jewish leaders are coming together to address the rash of Anti-Semitic violence recently in the New York area
Michael Jackson
December 21, 2019
The estate of Michael Jackson has settled with Walt Disney over an ABC TV special that allegedly air unauthorized use of the singer’s likeness
December 20, 2019
Researchers will use cadaver dogs to search MacDill AFB in Tampa, Fla., to seek out the location of a Black cemetery believed to be buried under the base