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July 6, 2011
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) - Darryl James Swanson has appeared in federal court to face charges that he threatened to kill…
July 6, 2011
Oprah Winfrey is back in the USA after spending time with her "girls" at the school she opened in South…
July 6, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - The Birmingham City Council has pardoned six women who were arrested in 1963 for protesting segregation-era…
July 6, 2011
Beyonce Knowles still topped the charts for her first week album sales, despite controversial reviews either loving her album 4,…
July 6, 2011
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- With the NBA on the eve of a potential lockout, New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries…
July 6, 2011
JUBA, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's president will speak at independence celebrations in the south this weekend, officials said Monday, just…
July 6, 2011
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) - 14 men are charged along with five juvenile boys of taking part in a series of…
July 6, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Jordin Sparks sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 2008 and for President Obama…
July 6, 2011
The Obama campaign website was hacked on Tuesday and invited supporters to two fake anti-government events hosted by an unnamed…
July 6, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS - When 18-year-old Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall on the last day of…
July 6, 2011
OPINION - The case struck a nerve on what is colloquially called "black Twitter" because it reminds us of a…
July 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT- Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal came up with a plan to have probationers fill the void left by immigrant…
July 6, 2011
OPINION - While talking to police may be a sin, might it be forgiven if the B.I.G. and Tupac's killers…
July 5, 2011
For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn't publish her novel because readers couldn't relate to a protagonist…
July 5, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama will summon top Republican and Democratic leaders to the White House this week for another…
July 5, 2011
VIDEO - After a state investigation, it was found close TO 80 percent of Atlanta Public Schools cheated on the…
July 5, 2011
VIDEO - Eight African-American students, known as the "Park Vista 8", believe the school's decision not to allow them on…
July 5, 2011
the GRIO Q&A - 'The Kid', picks-up where the novel 'PUSH' leaves off with Clarice Precious Jones, an HIV-positive teenage…
July 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Aubrey Stewart Project aims to tell the story of a the "Wereth Eleven", a troop of…
July 5, 2011
HIP HOP DX - Former Nation of Islam member, and currently incarcerated federal felon, Clayton Hill has confessed to his…