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July 26, 2012
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts mayor has fired a police officer accused of directing a racial slur at Boston…
June 26, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — Were they booing the president? Or were they 'youuu-ing' him?...
June 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The childhood home of civil rights leader Malcolm X and the neighborhood where the Rev. Martin Luther…
April 16, 2012
BOSTON (AP) - Trailing the leaders by 200 yards when the Boston Marathon slogged through Heartbreak Hill, Wesley Korir passed…
February 6, 2012
BOSTON (AP) - Bob Thompson learned he had prostate cancer after routine screening at the Whittier Street Health Center, a…
January 30, 2012
the GRIOs 100 - Ayanna Pressley is making history as the first African-American woman elected to the Boston City Council.…
November 8, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - A spokesman for Massachusetts General Hospital says the British singer underwent vocal cord microsurgery to stop recurrent…
July 28, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - He urged advocates to change the conversation about the debt limit to one about creating more jobs,…
July 28, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - The Microsoft founder joined Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates at a forum on education...
July 27, 2011
OPINION - As many of you are aware, Boston has this unfortunate 'racist' reputation...
July 26, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - Morial said new census data analyzed by the Pew Research Center shows that blacks and Latinos have…
July 18, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - College teachers around the country are participating in a summer institute aimed at integrating more black…
July 11, 2011
The Freedom Trail, running from Boston Common to Bunker Hill, highlights legendary Bostonians such as Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, and…
June 27, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - It's called "Can We Talk?" The film is part of the organization's years-long Boston Busing/Desegregation Project...
April 21, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - Officer George Pierce, a veteran patrolman said he applied for open sergeant positions a number of times…
February 25, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - The owners agreed to pay a $30,000 fine to settle allegations that it abruptly shut down an…
January 6, 2011
theGRIO Q&A - When Lawrence O'Donnell isn't giving the 'Last Word' on his MSNBC weeknight show, he's trying to equip…
December 25, 2010
BOSTON (AP) - The book covers his life as the first African-American to graduate from Stanford Medical School and becoming…
December 20, 2010
BOSTON (AP) - Roderick Ireland says he'll seek more transparency for the courts while promising to do the best he…
December 14, 2010
BOSTON (AP) - Willie Evans alleged the Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Tobacco Co. introduced his mother to smoking as a child…