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April 12, 2022
The violence just blocks from California's Capitol highlights the successes and challenges many U.S. urban centers are facing.
Keyon Harrold Jr. Crump Miya Ponsetto thegrio.com
April 11, 2022
A woman who wrongly accused a Black teen of taking phone at a New York City hotel, has reached a…
April 11, 2022
On Sept. 30, 2020, 401 years after traffickers landed in Virginia with enslaved Africans, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 3121.
April 7, 2022
The killing that left six people dead in Sacramento last week was a gunfight involving at least five shooters from rival…
Sacramento shooting thegrio.com
April 6, 2022
A dad of four. A best friend with a positive personality. A vivacious partygoer. They are among the six slain…
April 6, 2022
A man arrested in connection with the Sacramento shooting that killed six people was freed from prison weeks before the…
April 5, 2022
A second suspect was arrested Tuesday in connection to the mass shooting in Sacramento and police said he is the…
April 4, 2022
Authorities in Sacramento identified the six people killed in Sacramento’s mass shooting as police searched for at least two shooters.
April 2, 2022
A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday a law mandating corporations diversify their boards with people from certain backgrounds is unconstitutional.
April 1, 2022
The nation’s oldest active park ranger Betty Reid Soskin is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100…
March 30, 2022
California’s task force on reparations has decided to limit compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people...
March 29, 2022
California’s task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for…
jail cell thegrio.com
March 21, 2022
A white couple of out California has been charged with a hate crime in connection to the killing of a…
March 21, 2022
April Curley's lawsuit claims Google hires Blacks in lower-level positions, pays them less and denies them advancement opportunities.
March 17, 2022
The three-time Grammy-nominated singer was known as the soul mother of LA’s historic Leimert Park Village.
Phylicia Rashad theGrio.com
March 17, 2022
Rashad starred in the 1996 premiere of Cleage's play, which explores migration, sexuality and struggle in Great Depression-era Harlem.
Mohammed Mubarak theGrio.com
March 12, 2022
Artist-activist Mohammed Mubarak honors historical Black and Los Angeles-based figures through murals throughout Hollywood.
March 12, 2022
Merced police said investigators were working to identify if the body is the missing girl's. They did not release the…
March 10, 2022
A Santa Clara judge ruled that the six cops hadn't offered enough evidence that the mural amounted to discrimination.
Soccer pitch thegrio.com
March 10, 2022
A California high school coach said Black and Latino soccer players faced "blatant racism" when they were taunted during a…