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April 23, 2014
VIDEO - Thousands of students apply to Ivy League schools, but very few are accepted. Wilmington, North Carolina native Patrick…
April 8, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - When most people see 17-year-old Akintunde Ahmad - they find it hard to believe that a young…
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Benjamin is the mayor of Columbia, South Carolina. When he first won in 2010, he became the…
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Adolescent medicine doctor, Dr. David Bell, 51, mentors and fights for young men's health through his work…
January 25, 2014
NBC News -- Three people were killed Saturday in a shooting at a shopping mall in Columbia, Md., near Baltimore,…
October 9, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - After seven months of petitioning, a group of Columbia, Maryland residents gathered Monday for an official ceremony…
May 29, 2012
Eboni Boykin is a senior at Nomandy High School and she cannot wait to leave her St. Louis environment of…
July 27, 2011
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The NAACP's president is urging South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that…
June 28, 2011
VIDEO - Carter Strange, 18, just planned to make a brief jog home just after midnight last week. What he…
May 18, 2011
VIDEO - "I see more people come in excited with the name," said owner Sam Alhanik, who got the idea…
April 6, 2011
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) - Prince is making a donation to a nonprofit group that aims to send children in…
April 22, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The official manual of the South Carolina Legislature no longer references "Negro" or "scalawag" in historical…
April 21, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The new mayor-elect in South Carolina's capital city was not hurt in a wreck as he…
March 24, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Black lawmakers are urging black football recruits to reconsider playing for the University of South Carolina…
August 26, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- "For once in my life, I really experienced the old saying, pinch me to see if…