Alabama

All Articles

August 21, 2014
VIDEO - A sixth grade teacher at Alabama's Brantley Elementary School is on paid administrative leave after students were instructed…
June 20, 2014
VIDEO - A Korean War Veteran's 56-year struggle for Veterans Affairs benefits is finally over...
June 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Nineteen-year-old Marissa Williams was arrested after she unknowingly told her aunt via Facebook that she wanted to…
April 10, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Alabama families rallied in Montgomery Wednesday, responding to controversial comments made by State Rep. Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery)…
March 10, 2014
VIDEO - The 49th annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, to mark the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, was held this…
January 16, 2014
MSNBC - The city of Evergreen, Ala., which has a troubled history when it comes to race and voting rights,…
January 3, 2014
TROY, Ala. (AP) — Troy football player Jadarius Garner was found dead on a Mississippi highway...
December 30, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Police have arrested a man on two capital murder charges in the fatal shooting of rapper…
December 28, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Police in Alabama were investigating the killings of rapper Doe B. and another person in a…
December 3, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) - Adrian Laroze Briskey, 28, was charged Monday with murder in the killing of 36-year-old Michelle Shepherd...
November 26, 2013
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jimmy Iovine and Luke Wood were so moved by the "Muscle Shoals" documentary, they're putting up…
November 21, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's parole board wrote a new ending for the infamous 'Scottsboro Boys' rape case Thursday by…
September 19, 2013
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Several hundred people marched Wednesday at the University of Alabama to oppose racial segregation among the…
September 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The names Virgil Ware and Johnny Robinson may not be familiar to many, but they played an…
September 12, 2013
NBC SPORTS - How polarizing is Johnny Manziel? So much so that he’s pushing a dyed-in-the-wool Auburn fan to the…
September 11, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Demetrius Newton, a civil rights attorney who represented icons like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King…
September 10, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The last surviving Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls 50 years…
August 26, 2013
ANALYSIS - 1963 was a year of bold action and heartbreaking consequences that literally rocked the nation...
August 24, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — It has been a half-century since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed a dream that…
August 14, 2013
NBC NEWS - Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will learn whether and for how long he could go to prison…