avatar

About TheGrio Staff

All Articles

June 26, 2009
Five members of the Jena Six pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor simple battery and won't serve jail time, ending…
June 26, 2009
Al Sharpton said it best: “Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color. Way before Tiger Woods, way before
June 26, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An emergency caller from Michael Jackson’s home says he wasn’t breathing or responding to efforts to
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson is dead at 50 from cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest simply means that the heart has stopped pumping, which
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson’s music is flying off store shelves. Gloria Washington loaded up on Jackson’s hits at Best Buy hours after
June 26, 2009
Residents of Gary, Indiana are mourning the loss of their most famous native son. Hundreds gathered outside of Michael Jackson’s
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a…
June 26, 2009
(AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File) Just months after our President proved that you can be born black in America and achieve
June 26, 2009
How ironic. Between the economy and the weather — seemingly endless rain that has robbed us of half our summer
June 26, 2009
Debt. Everyone has some these days. From our own federal government (the current federal deficit is a whopping $11.3 Trillion)
June 26, 2009
Hakeem is a student at P.S. 36 in Brooklyn. He hopes to one day become a doctor, but in the…
June 26, 2009
All over the country people are remembering, and celebrating the life of music icon Michael Jackson. In Los Angeles mourners…
June 26, 2009
The new anti-smoking bill marks a monumental achievement in the fight against tobacco companies in the United States. It is
June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson’s family has issued their first statement on the passing of the entertainment legend. Jackson’s older brother Jermaine spoke
June 25, 2009
Chay Lee of theGrio reports from the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where Michael Jackson fans gathered Thursday night to remember
June 25, 2009
Morning television shows from Sydney to Tokyo interrupted programs Friday to report the news of Michael Jackson's death, while online…
June 25, 2009
In 1984, NBC reporter Jack Perkins looks at the rising popularity of singer Michael Jackson and his top-selling album, “Thriller.”
June 25, 2009
Longtime friends are remembering Michael Jackson in the wake of the pop superstar’s passing. The Reverend Al Sharpton, friend and
June 25, 2009
A lack of money to cover funeral expenses for a community activist in Washington state has prompted her family and…
June 25, 2009
The U.S. Senate urged President Barack Obama to pardon the late black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who was sent to…