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December 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The police report has become public record and according to the Kansas City Star, KCPD has released…
December 18, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - Jesse Hill Jr., a civil rights leader and businessman who later became the first black president of…
December 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Donnie Andrews, the Baltimore gangster behind the Omar Little character on 'The Wire', died today in New…
December 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Brandy spoke to CNN's Piers Morgan about Houston's death and said she understood how difficult it was…
December 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - From the south side of Chicago, Jeni LeGon was one of the first African-American women in tap…
December 7, 2012
BLUE RIDGE, Texas (AP) - The slain girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher was a loyal friend who…
December 6, 2012
BLUE RIDGE, Texas (AP) - A memorial is being held in North Texas for the slain girlfriend of Kansas City…
November 26, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s…
November 19, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Rhythm and blues singer Billy Scott has died in North Carolina at age 70...
November 9, 2012
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Major Harris, a former member of the 'Philadelphia sound' soul group the Delfonics and singer of…
November 9, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Tuskegee Airman Herbert Carter died Thursday at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika...
November 9, 2012
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A man who says he is Sherman Hemsley's brother is expected to reveal the results…
November 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The first African American graduate from the United States Air Force Academy has passed away.
November 5, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Milt Campbell, who became the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon in 1956 and went…
October 22, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The mystery surrounding the killing of a pregnant woman deepened Monday, as investigators looked into a…
October 22, 2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of…
October 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - George McGovern is far too often ridiculed for his landslide presidential defeat forty years ago. But he…
October 10, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - Alex Karras was one of the NFL's most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, a player who…
October 9, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mervyn Dymally, the former California assemblyman, senator and lieutenant governor who also served in Congress for…
October 3, 2012
DUARTE, California (AP) - Motown record producer and songwriter Frank Wilson, who worked with the Supremes, the Temptations and Marvin…