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Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, Police Chief Michael Pickett, Black Mayors, theGrio.com
November 12, 2025
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and the city’s newly appointed police chief, Michael Pickett, have caused quite a stir.
Birmingham Alabama mass shooting, theGrio.com
September 24, 2024
Authorities have still made no arrests after Saturday’s shooting outside a nightspot that killed four people and left 17 others…
Minor high school band director Johnny Mims
September 20, 2023
An Alabama high school band director said he was just doing his job when police officers arrested him and shocked…
September 15, 2023
Lisa McNair, whose sister Denise was one of the girls killed in the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing, forged a…
September 1, 2023
Federal prosecutors said an assistant to state Rep. John Rogers conspired with “others to defraud and obtain money”...
December 24, 2022
An underground fire has been raging at an environmental landfill near Birmingham for almost a month, covering Alabama's largest metro…
A basketball on the court
November 17, 2022
A women's volleyball team at a small, historically Black college withdrew from their conference tournament in Alabama after a member…
January 4, 2022
Maxine McNair, 93, was the mother of Carol Denise McNair, who, at 11, was the youngest of the four girls…
December 10, 2021
Waniki Lushun Fox succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday, two days after firefighters saved her life.
July 10, 2021
A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother’s lifelong dream of wearing a wedding dress was fulfilled, 70 years after her marriage.
theGRIO.com
May 13, 2021
Former seamstress and great-grandmother Vivian Cunningham is making headlines for graduating from an Alabama university at the age of 78.
Police Car theGrio.com
April 6, 2021
Radio host Rickey Smiley is offering a reward in the shooting death of Areyelle Yarborough who was killed randomly on…
February 8, 2021
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has removed the name of four-term governor George C. Wallace from a campus building.
perrion roberts www.theGrio.com
January 14, 2021
Formerly known as the “Black Widow,” Perrion Roberts and four others are chronicled in the second installment of the true-crime…
Chantale McCall thegrio.com
December 3, 2020
An Alabama woman is raising 12 children following her sister's death from COVID-19, upholding they made to raise each other’s…
October 1, 2020
Sarah Collins Rudolph's lawyers noted in a letter to Gov. Kay Ivey that now is the right time for "long…
Discover #EatItForward www.theGrio.com
July 7, 2020
Discover initiates a social-media campaign, committing $5 million to Black-owned restaurants across the country.