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theGRIO VIDEO – This week, Sacramento Kings center Demarcus Cousins announced he plans to donate $1 million to needy families in the Sacramento area…
theGRIO VIDEO – OJ Mayo once talked trash to Michael Jordan at Jordan’s basketball camp. The result was what you would expect…
theGRIO VIDEO – NBA rivalries are being hashed out on Twitter and Instagram these days. Kevin Durant said James Harden should replace Dwyane Wade on Sports Illustrated ‘Top 10’ players list for this upcoming season. Wade didn’t appreciate the comments…
theGRIO REPORT – Monday, the Toronto Raptors named Drake its new ‘global ambassador’…
theGRIO REPORT – Google the words ‘substitute teacher’ and you’ll learn quickly why the sketch comedy show ‘Key and Peele’ is entering its third season on Comedy Central…
theGRIO REPORT – It was only a matter of time before Gabby Douglas’ incredible story was made into a movie. Lifetime has decided to greenlight the Olympic gold medalist’s incredible career into a TV biopic…
SLIDESHOW – Is it Chris Paul or Cliff Paul? State Farm Insurance’s commercial involving Chris Paul’s twin ‘Cliff Paul’ was a fixture during NBA games this past season…
OPINION – This season, nine African-Americans will start at quarterback — reportedly more than at any other time in NFL history…
theGRIO REPORT – The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom turns 50 today. A new PBS documentary reveals the details of what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described would be considered the “greatest demonstration for freedom” in American history…
VIDEO – On April 2, 1970, two days before the second anniversary of their father’s death, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s children Dexter, Yolanda, Bernice and Martin III spoke with NBC’s Barabara Walters…
theGRIO VIDEO – Carol Carter-Walker and Judith Claire didn’t know each other in 1963 when both attended the March on Washington. Fifty years later, the two will attend the anniversary celebration together at the Lincoln Memorial…
theGRIO VIDEO – TheGrio.com asked several young African-American men to reflect on the day’s events and share how the anniversary is relevant to their lives in 2013…
theGRIO VIDEO – Don’t tell 18-year-old Kasiem Walters the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington is too-far removed for him or other teens to identify with…
VIDEO – Darren Young, whose real name is Fred Rosser, told Lauer it just felt like the “right place and right time,” to comment on his sexuality…
theGRIO REPORT – Darren Young, a profesisonal wrestler in the WWE, revealed that he was gay during an interview at Los Angeles International Airport with a TMZ photographer…
theGRIO REPORT – Another analyst is out at ESPN and this time it’s Hugh Douglas. Tuesday, the ‘Numbers Never Lie’ panelist was let go after an alleged incident involving ESPN colleague ‘NNL’ co-host Michael Smith…
OPINION – This isn’t to say Cooper was supposed to go on some national anti-N word campaign around the NFL – but will this season be one where Cooper is able to truly grow and mature and learn from what he did and said?…
theGRIO REPORT – NBA superstar Dwyane Wade and his two sons Zaire and Zion are featured on the cover of the September issue of EBONY Magazine…
theGRIO REPORT – The name Greg Oden has become synonymous with “bust” and sports phrases like “a career marred by injuries” or “just couldn’t stay healthy.” And it’s true…
theGRIO REPORT – Donovan McNabb officially retired as a Philadelphia Eagle Monday, ending a storied career as one of the franchise’s greatest players…