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February 8, 2017
A week before the start of Black History Month, Seaway Bank, Chicago’s largest black-owned bank, was sold to the State Bank of
February 3, 2017
Pastor Darrell Scott is walking back his comments that he spoke with gang leaders who promised to "lower the body…
January 27, 2017
The Chicago Tribune reported that there were no shootings during former President Barack Obama's farewell speech despite claims by President…
January 27, 2017
Often, President Donald Trump speaks of black communities as worse than third world countries, believing the moment black people step
January 26, 2017
After President Donald Trump said he would "send in the Feds" to Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned against deploying the…
January 25, 2017
President Donald Trump is serving notice he's ready to "send in the Feds" if Chicago can't reduce its homicide figures.
January 20, 2017
After departing the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama are already working on their next project: the presidential library in…
January 17, 2017
He's the 'Orator in Chief'...
January 10, 2017
A West Virginia teacher was suspended after speculating that the Chicago suspects accused of torturing a mentally disabled teen could…
January 6, 2017
An online fundraising effort to help the mentally disabled victim of a Chicago beating that was live on Facebook has…
January 6, 2017
President Obama has since spoken out about a video was posted to Facebook of a mentally disabled white man being…
January 6, 2017
CHICAGO (AP) — Four black people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on
January 5, 2017
A video game called “We Are Chicago” is seeking to prevent violence through raising education and awareness by simulating life…
January 5, 2017
Chicago police said Wednesday that they're investigating a video circulating on social media that shows several people beating a man…
January 4, 2017
On the first 2017 edition of the Grio News Update, Grio editors Natasha Alford and Gerren Keith Gaynor talk President Obama’s big farewell
January 3, 2017
Garry McCarthy, the former Chicago police superintendent, says that the rising murder rates in the city are due to the…
December 26, 2016
At least 27 people were shot, 7 fatally, in Chicago during the Christmas weekend, adding a bloody punctuation mark to…
December 21, 2016
CHICAGO (AP) — In this deadly year of gun violence in Chicago, the tragic became the routine: Teens carried the…
December 7, 2016
Three weeks ago, a woman's three grandchildren were found living in squalor in an abandoned house in Chicago, and she…
December 2, 2016
For the first time in almost 20 years, Chicago has had more than 700 homicides in a year, and 2016…