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July 15, 2015

Video of young black man snatching Confederate flag goes viral, police made aware

theGRIO REPORT - "No flagging right here." Those four words in a video posted to Facebook Saturday have spread all…
July 10, 2015

Sean Kingston apologizes for mocking teen with Asperger's on Facebook

theGRIO REPORT - Attention celebrities - that meme your sharing may not be as funny as you think. Sean Kingston…
July 7, 2015

Hero teen saves residents from deadly apartment fire

theGrio REPORT - Monday, a 16-year-old boy rushed into a burning Brooklyn apartment building to help save several residents from…
July 4, 2015

Google, Facebook and Twitter release diversity numbers, not looking good

theGRIO REPORT - Google, Facebook and Twitter have released their diversity numbers, and the gap is even wider than originally…
July 1, 2015

CA vigilantes attack mentally ill homeless man targeted in fake Facebook warning

theGrio REPORT - Over the weekend, vigilantes attacked a mentally disabled homeless man in California after being incited by a…
June 30, 2015

Florida officer fired for racist posts, captions about black people on Facebook

theGRIO REPORT - Fort Lauderdale Officer Jeffery Feldewert is the fifth Florida cop to be dismissed for racist comments this…
June 26, 2015

North Charleston police officer fired for Facebook photo showing him dressed in Confederate flag

theGRIO REPORT - "Unacceptable." That's the word North Charleston Police Chief Eddie Driggers used Thursday to describe a Facebook photo…
June 23, 2015

KFC, lab results confirm 'fried rat' is actually chicken

theGRIO REPORT - It may look like a rat, but it's definitely chicken.
June 23, 2015

Don Lemon addresses the N-word in brow-raising CNN segment

theGrio REPORT - On Monday's broadcast of CNN Tonight, Don Lemon clearly had a point to make.
June 13, 2015

Texas teacher fired after racist McKinney Facebook post

theGrio REPORT - Karen Fitzgibbon, a fourth grade teacher at Bennett Elementary School in the Frenship Independent School District in…
June 11, 2015

Black zoo employee fired after Facebook post about 'rude white people'

theGRIO REPORT- A Chicago area zoo fired an employee whose remarks on Facebook stirred controversy all over social media. The…
June 3, 2015

Your favorite Instagram memes may actually be mocking sick children

theGRIO REPORT - We've all done it; pass on a funny post featuring the face of a complete stranger. But…
May 29, 2015

Father slams parents for publicly shaming kids in viral video

theGRIO REPORT - If you haven't noticed, there's a lot of parents out here in these streets shaming their kids…
May 21, 2015

Mom shames 13-year-old daughter in viral video for pretending to be 19 on Facebook

A Colorado mother discovered that her daughter had been posting pictures on Facebook in lacy lingerie pretending to be 19-years-old,
May 20, 2015

Footage uncovered of Vin Diesel breakdancing in 80s instructional dance video

theGrio REPORT - A breakdancing tutorial video from the 80s surfaced, featuring none other than Vin Diesel...
May 20, 2015

Black mom's Facebook post thanking white cop for helping son fix flat tire goes viral

When Virginia Tech student Joseph Owusu got a flat tire on a dark and busy road, a Virginia State Trooper
May 14, 2015

Tyrese professes his love for Janelle Monáe in intimate online post

theGRIO REPORT - Tyrese, we got the message. The singer warned his Facebook fans he was in his "grown man…
May 4, 2015

Florida deputy fired after 'monkey' comments, claims it wasn't 'racist'

theGRIO REPORT - A deputy sheriff in Florida is out of a job after admitting to using racist language in…
May 4, 2015

How technology and social media spawned a new civil rights movement

The revolution will not only be televised but apparently it will also be uploaded, downloaded, streamed, posted and tweeted as
May 3, 2015

N.Y cop under investigation for racist Facebook post, fellow officers turned him in

theGrio REPORT - A Hudson Valley police officer has been placed on limited duty after fellow officers reported him to…