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April 23, 2013
OPINION - Havens more than showed that with his music and his never tiring dedication and passion to the cause…
April 22, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Havens, a folk singer and guitarist, performed at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. He returned to the…
April 14, 2013
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Discussing what will happen to the country once its iconic leader Nelson Mandela dies has long…
April 9, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nineteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africans are still passionately divided over whether Margaret Thatcher…
April 8, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In Britain, Thatcher was a divisive force, who you either loved or loathed...
April 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Pulitizer Prize winner, who is survived by his African-American wife, Chaz Hammelsmith Ebert, was also a…
March 25, 2013
OPINION - The Nigerian political establishment’s eagerness to identify with Achebe is ironic, given that he despised the guys who…
March 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Conrad Delimar, 47, of Brooklyn, was beaten to death behind the locked doors of a shower room…
March 22, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern…
March 7, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The FBI said Wednesday that it has been monitoring the state investigation into the death of…
March 4, 2013
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey…
February 28, 2013
NBC NEWS - The body of a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., was found about 15 miles west of…
February 28, 2013
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Former Motown vocalist Richard Street, a member of the Temptations for 25 years, has died. He…
February 24, 2013
BALTIMORE (AP) — Otis 'Damon' Harris, a former member of the Motown group The Temptations, has died of prostate cancer...
February 22, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) - Cleotha Staples, the eldest sibling in the highly influential gospel group The Staples Singers, has died. She…
February 22, 2013
(AP) - Magic Slim, a younger contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who helped shape the sound…
February 18, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Buss, the Los Angeles Lakers' playboy owner who shepherded the NBA franchise to 10 championships,…
February 15, 2013
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say fugitive former cop Christopher Dorner died of a single gunshot wound to the…
February 12, 2013
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - The search ended abruptly Tuesday when a man believed to be Dorner bolted from…
February 7, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) - Cardiss Collins, the first African-American woman to represent Illinois in Congress, died of complications from pneumonia at…