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February 24, 2016
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis jury has awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who…
January 18, 2016
Shera Grant and Shanta Owens, identical twin sisters, have led incredibly similar lives over the years. According to AL.com, both
January 17, 2016
Congressman Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama, called President Barack Obama "the most racially-divisive president" since the Civil War on…
December 23, 2015
Recently, Alabama closed around 30 of its DMV locations that offered drivers license services, and the announcement caused ripples of…
December 22, 2015
DeMarcus Cousins is getting into the holiday spirit.
December 1, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is traveling to Alabama to mark the 60th anniversary of the…
October 21, 2015
Alabama judge Marvin Wiggins stirred up controversy recently when the New York Times reported that he told a room full…
October 14, 2015
An Alabama man taped an encounter of himself brilliantly engaging with two officers who stopped him merely for jogging around…
October 7, 2015
Amos Newsome, an Alabama city commissioner, was arrested and is now facing third-degree assault charges after he attacked a local…
September 24, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge has ordered a former Ku Klux Klan leader sent back to prison after…
September 23, 2015
Commissioner Sandra Little Brown thinks it's time a slave mural placed in a Birmingham courthouse eighty years ago comes down.
September 21, 2015
EAST SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The pastor and members of the congregation that wrestled a gun away from a man…
August 28, 2015
Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Kanye West stunned TV producers and people across the country when he
August 26, 2015
An Alabama cheerleading coach who wore a KKK t-shirt to cheerleading practice has since resigned over the controversy.
August 15, 2015
theGrio REPORT - On Friday, a Birmingham, Alabama, police detective was pistol-whipped into unconsciousness, and, according to the police union,…
August 4, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Tuesday, The Guardian revealed that an officer in Alabama was caught on a recording plotting to kill…
July 21, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - John Likely says he feels like he can "fly" now that he weighs around 240 pounds. But…
July 17, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Georgia teacher was killed by her kidnapper after a car chase that led police across state…
July 16, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A young black teen who was recently arrested is dead of an apparent suicide according to Alabama…
July 10, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - The Harris sextuplets, from Birmingham, Alabama, are the first set of African-American sextuplets to survive, and now,…