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January 12, 2022
Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty Law…
January 2, 2022
The extreme weather also caused damage to businesses in Hazel Green, including a Walmart store, local news outlets reported.
J. Michelle Childs thegrio.com
December 24, 2021
Biden caps his first year in office with 40 federal judges confirmed to the bench, the most since Ronald Reagan…
December 23, 2021
Most of the ship's wooden schooner remains intact, including the pen used to imprison African captives across the Atlantic Ocean.
Civil Rights Icon Claudette Colvin Attempts To Clear Her Legal Record 60 Years Later
December 16, 2021
Colvin refused to give her bus seat to a White person on March 2, 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks…
Byron Allen thegrio.com
December 16, 2021
Acquisition of the outlet will bring Allen Media Broadcasting’s holding to 36 television stations in 21 U.S. markets.
December 10, 2021
Waniki Lushun Fox succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday, two days after firefighters saved her life.
GlennFoster - theGrio.com
December 9, 2021
Foster passed away two days after being arrested following his involvement in a high-speed chase and, while in jail, a…
Glenn Foster Jr. thegrio.com
December 7, 2021
Former New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Glenn Foster Jr. died Monday while in police custody in Alabama.
Emmit King thegrio.com
November 29, 2021
Former University of Alabama track star and Olympian Emmit King was killed in a shootout with another man, authorities say.
November 28, 2021
Alabama’s capital city faces penalty for renaming Jeff Davis Avenue after Fred D. Gray, a lawyer known for his work…
November 4, 2021
The Crimson Piper Marching Band of Tuskegee University will get new leadership after its fed-up members went on strike and…
Judge Wooden gavel on the table of judge with american flag and black chair
November 1, 2021
A judge who oversees elections in an Alabama county was removed from office after being accused of racist, sexually inappropriate…
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin
October 26, 2021
A legal team representing Colvin says it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman's arrest from 1955 expunged.
October 24, 2021
A group of Alabama residents and state lawmakers are advocating for changes to the state's congressional map to give Black…
October 23, 2021
After avoiding execution in February, Willie B. Smith III was put to death Thursday after the SCOTUS rejected a request…
October 18, 2021
An Alabama teen has been arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection to a shooting during a high school…
October 14, 2021
The grieving kin of Christina Nance want Huntsville Police officials to release surveillance footage from their parking lot cameras.
News 8 Davis theGRIO.com
October 12, 2021
A meteorologist who works at WQAD in Moline, Ill. went viral after getting excited about Texas A&M’s win over Alabama…
Gov. Kay Ivey and prison
October 4, 2021
It is no surprise that Black people in Alabama are 28% of state residents, but 43% of the people in…