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a state of emergency declared in Charlottesville
February 22, 2019
Owner of Momma Mocha’s Coffee Emporium, detailed the terrifying experience in a Facebook post. Yahoo reports that a crazed man with a gun stood…
Ku Klux Klan kkk thegrio.com
February 20, 2019
An Alabama press group has censured the Democrat-Reporter’s editor after he called for the KKK to ‘ride again’ in D.C
Ku Klux Klan kkk thegrio.com
February 19, 2019
[griojw id=”dGCmL8b8″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   A small-town Alabama newspaper editor wrote a racist editorial calling for the Ku Klux Klan to
Joycelyn Davis, a direct descendant of Clotilda survivor Charlie Lewis,stands for a portrait at the community center in Africatown in Mobile, Ala., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Davis is is organizing the "Spirit of Our Ancestors" festival, a reunion for descendants of Clotilda survivors. “I am so proud to say I am a descendant. That wasn’t a word that I used maybe 10, 15 years ago,” said Davis, 42, a sixth-generation granddaughter of African captive Charlie Lewis. “It was shameful as a child.” (AP Photo/Julie Bennett) thegrio.com
February 8, 2019
The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped…
Racial Profiling
February 6, 2019
Birmingham Sen. Rodger Smitherman wants to require documentation of every police stop, including racial identity of drivers, to bring racial profiling…
EJ Bradford
February 6, 2019
Angered that a police officer who shot EJ Bradford by accident last Thanksgiving, demonstrators sent a message to authorities about…
Angela Davis
January 14, 2019
Although Angela Davis says she was stunned when a Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award was rescinded by the Birmingham Civil…
Maori Davenport thegrio.com
January 8, 2019
Maori Davenport, 6'4 high school senior, should be defending her school's state basketball championship this year, but instead she is…
January 7, 2019
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has decided not to honor civil rights icon Angela Davis with its human rights awards…
December 3, 2018
Alabama has the highest rate of cervical cancer deaths in the US, according to a troubling new report released by
E.J Bradford thegrio.com
November 29, 2018
The Alabama mall shooter is under arrest a week after a Black Army vet was killed by police and blamed…
Emantic Bradford Jr. thegrio.com
November 27, 2018
Protestors showed up in force at Hoover City Hall in Alabama yesterday to demand answers after Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.,…
Grieving family discusses fatal police shooting of EJ Bradford on Today Show along with their attorney Ben Crump. thegrio.com
November 26, 2018
The family of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., a Black US Army combat engineer who was killed in a Alabama mall after police…
Emantic Bradford Jr. thegrio.com
November 25, 2018
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. was the son of a police officer and a US Army combat engineer who was home…
Halloween thegrio.com
October 9, 2018
A suburban Birmingham, Ala., family says they didn't realize how hanging a figure that looked black from a tree in…
September 25, 2018
A woman in Montgomery, Alabama is facing multiple charges after five of her children tested positive for cocaine.
September 20, 2018
White high school students in Moody, Alabama took a controversial picture of their boots on the back of a Black…
Colin Kaepernick Nike thegrio.com AP
September 14, 2018
Add another person to the highlight reel of “Angry white people destroying their own stuff.” Mack Morris, the senior pastor
Michael B. Jordan
August 28, 2018
Michael B. Jordan never passes up an opportunity to be his little brother’s keeper. And this time, the Black Panther
August 20, 2018
A married woman from Tuscaloosca, Alabama is in police custody after she allegedly held her lover at gunpoint while on…