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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…
July 5, 2011
Police have arrested Samuel Marby in connection with the murders of Marquis Sumler and Michael Fernandez at 24 Front St.…
July 5, 2011
NEWS ONE - A savant from the Bronx was recently accepted to the University of Connecticut at the young age…
July 5, 2011
CONNECTICUT - Police are looking for two men who robbed a West Hartford bank and assaulted a security guard on…
July 5, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say colon cancer deaths continue to drop across America -- except in the state of…
July 5, 2011
WASHINGTON - Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges connected to the corruption…
July 5, 2011
CHICAGO - A mother who had nine of her children taken away from her years ago has adopted four of…
July 5, 2011
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - Mexican rescuers were scouring the Gulf of California for seven Americans whose fishing boat capsized two…
July 5, 2011
HipHopWired can exclusively report that Outkast plans to release a new album by early next year...
July 5, 2011
DETROIT - Deangelo Owens, 17, of Southfield, Michigan has been charged with 14 felonies including carjacking, unlawful imprisonment, armed robbery…
July 5, 2011
The 26-year-old hip-hop star announced on Twitter that her "precious cousin" was murdered Sunday evening...
July 5, 2011
THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP (AP) - This fall, a permanent exhibition will open about people escaping slavery before the Civil…
July 5, 2011
CONNECTICUT - The New Haven man suspected of raping several women from Virgina to Rhode Island over a 10-year period…