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August 23, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Robert Zimmerman, Jr. has confirmed to NBC News that his brother George Zimmerman went gun shopping Thursday…
August 20, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — Elmore Leonard, a former adman who later became one of America's foremost crime writers, died Tuesday. He…
August 20, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Murray, the influential novelist and critic who celebrated black culture, scorned black separatism and was…
August 15, 2013
NBC Miami - A 12-year-old girl was killed and her grandmother injured when they were shot inside their Miami Gardens…
August 12, 2013
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Authorities made a grim discovery after finding a woman's body near a Northern California park during…
August 9, 2013
MSNBC - Martin Bashir commemorates the life of George Duke who died on Wednesday at the age of 67.
August 5, 2013
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks…
August 5, 2013
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Julius Chambers, a Charlotte attorney whose practice was in the forefront of the civil rights movement…
August 1, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — John Edward Allen, a New Mexico veteran who served as a Tuskegee Airman during World War…
July 31, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court says Oscar Grant's father can sue the Northern California transit officer who…
July 29, 2013
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Rep. Lois DeBerry, one of the longest-serving women lawmakers in the nation and a powerful…
July 24, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — Hearing the screams of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till from inside a Mississippi barn left a teenage…
July 23, 2013
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 76-year-old Milwaukee man who fatally shot his unarmed teenage neighbor was sentenced to life in prison…
July 23, 2013
(AP) - Emile Griffith, the elegant world champion whose career was overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave Bennie Paret…
July 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Helen Thomas, the irrepressible White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history…
July 15, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An entertainment accounting expert says Michael Jackson could have earned $1.1 billion or more if he…
July 14, 2013
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Monteith, who played the character Finn Hudson on the Fox TV series about a high…
July 12, 2013
NBC News - The parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin say they want to see "justice" in the second-degree…
July 12, 2013
NBC News - The onslaught of gun crime in Chicago has spurred members of Congress to convene a summit on…
July 11, 2013
MSNBC - Without a legal miracle, two-time killer Warren Lee Hill Jr. will be put to death next week despite…