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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Holds News Conference Discussing Efforts To Reduce Violent Crime thegrio.com
January 4, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he will be rescinding Obama-era rules about marijuana.
November 27, 2017
The longtime activist steps in to free Philly rapper, meets with attorney
November 17, 2017
JAY-Z hasn’t been quiet about his outrage over the sentencing of Meek Mill, who was slapped with a sentence of
October 24, 2017
Alice Marie Johnson, 62, will never see them outside of prison, where she is serving a life sentence without parole…
March 7, 2017
A study shows that black people are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be convicted of a crime…
March 2, 2017
In his executive-produced Kalief Browder documentary, Jay Z recalled his encounter with the then teen who spent three years in…
December 23, 2016
Missouri is taking an unprecedented step. The state will soon start charging students who get into fights with felonies.
October 17, 2016
Arnold Ray Jones, a convicted, drug dealer is the only inmate so far to reject clemency granted to him by…
October 17, 2016
Venida Browder, the mother of Kalief Browder, has died of a "broken heart," says her attorney.
October 13, 2016
Imagine being 15 years old sitting in a juvenile detention center charged with the aggravated murder of your abusive father.
February 1, 2016
California's ban on the death penalty came to end in November, which has left Kevin Cooper facing execution-- even though…
December 26, 2015
As President Obama enters his eighth and final year in the White House, 2016 is destined to be his blackest…
December 18, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is commuting the sentences of 95 offenders and pardoning two more in a year-end…
November 1, 2015
Why is #BlackLivesMatter going after Hillary Clinton, and what must she do? The goal is to make sure that she…
October 16, 2015
October 16 marks the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, when Minister Louis Farrakhan called on black men to…
August 11, 2015
Will Biden run? And if he does, what is his stance on #BlackLivesMatter?
March 19, 2015
The U.S. economy is rebounding, the stock market is thriving, and unemployment is down to levels not seen since the
December 29, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The criminal justice system just found itself a surprising ally in Charles Koch, the billionaire chairman and…
December 11, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Jay Z met with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Wednesday to discuss reform of the state's criminal…
July 18, 2013
OPINION - What if the races of the defendant and the victim were reversed in the George Zimmerman murder trial?...