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February 4, 2013
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The mixed-race daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond who kept her parentage secret for…
February 1, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Ed Koch's favorite moment as mayor of New York City, fittingly, involved yelling...
January 30, 2013
NBC CHICAGO - A 15-year-old majorette who performed at some of President Barack Obama's recent inauguration festivities has been shot…
January 28, 2013
VIDEO - The loss of a child is devastating for a parent, and Whitney Houston's mother Cissy is no different...
January 28, 2013
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner, frontman for the hit-making funk music band the Ohio Players, has died in…
January 18, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - One of the first black students who enrolled at the University of Alabama a half century…
January 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The passing of Chew spurred an outpouring of grief and condolences from his former cast members...
January 17, 2013
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - The death of Conrad Bain at age 89 has hit no one harder than Todd Bridges...
January 16, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) - Conrad Bain, a veteran stage and film actor who became a star in middle age as…
January 11, 2013
VIDEO - The family of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in a hit and run crash in Miramar pleaded…
January 9, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ned Wertimer, who played Ralph the Doorman on all 11 seasons of the CBS comedy 'The…
January 8, 2013
LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse died from accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after a period of abstinence, a…
January 6, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) - The AFL said Sunday that Williams died while playing in a local flag football tournament in South…
January 5, 2013
(AP) - A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living U.S. citizen has died, two of her daughters…
January 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Atlanta rapper Yung Teddy was found shot to death on Wednesday evening in a home in Austell,…
December 28, 2012
(AP) - The last time the city reached the 500-homicide mark was in 2008, when the year ended with 512…
December 28, 2012
Terry Glover, the managing editor of Ebony magazine, has died of colon cancer at her Chicago home. She was 57.
December 27, 2012
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Fontella Bass, a U.S. soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with 'Rescue…
December 27, 2012
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - As we look ahead to 2013, we remember the black icons lost in 2012 and remember them…
December 19, 2012
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Robert H. Bork, who stepped in to fire the Watergate prosecutor at Richard Nixon's behest and…