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Voting in Indiana thegrio.com
April 15, 2020
Postage for mail in ballots in Georgia might be a modern-day poll tax, says black voting advocates in a lawsuit…
April 14, 2020
A Georgia Democrat endorses Donald Trump for president, but his own party says they don't believe he represents them well.
police
April 10, 2020
Fake cops are stopping drivers in Colorado and Georgia for violating coronavirus stay-at-home orders, breaking the law and putting others…
Mayor Troy Brumbalow
April 3, 2020
A mayor in Georgia, Troy Brumbalow, has reversed his decision to cancel social distancing amid the coronavirus after receiving backlash
April 2, 2020
Gov. Brian Kemp feigned ignorance with how COVID-19 was transmitted on Wednesday, saying he was not aware that asymptomatic people…
Nurses COVID-19 theGrio.com
March 25, 2020
Two Georgia health care workers, both in their forties, have died after contracting COVID-19 becoming the first to die from…
police thegrio.com
February 24, 2020
A white Georgia police officer has been found guilty of stomping a Black handcuffed man in the head during a…
Stacey Abrams thegrio
February 21, 2020
Stacey Abrams was worried during her 2018 campaign to become the next governor of Georgia but does not believe she…
DeKalb County Sheriff's Office Decatur GA
February 17, 2020
The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with the county branch of the NAACP, hosted a voter registration drive at…
Georgia
January 30, 2020
Rev. Raphael Warnock, of Ebenezer Baptist Church, has announced his run for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by gubernatorial…
Byron Allen
January 26, 2020
A death row inmate won a stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court unfortunately, he didn't survive the wait…
Stacey Abrams thegrio
January 15, 2020
Stacey Abrams' new book that will focus on the need for voting reform and is called 'Our Time is Now:…
Michael Bloomberg Stacey Abrams
January 11, 2020
Presidential nominee hopeful Michael Bloomberg kicked off his first campaign appearance in Georgia with an early morning stop at an…
January 3, 2020
Latonya Young striking up a conversation with a man she was driving turned out to be a windfall that is…
Bryce Gowdy theGrio.com
January 1, 2020
A Florida high school football player's bright shining star has unfortunately dimmed in what investigators have ruled as a suicide.
Uber theGrio.com
December 17, 2019
Uber driver was blessed when one of her passengers paid off her almost $700 outstanding college bill at Georgia State…
Georgia Voting Machines thegrio.com AP
December 11, 2019
Grassroots efforts of one predominantly Black community in a rural Georgia county caused an elections board to reopen a polling…
November 25, 2019
Prosecutors say Kamiyah Street, a suspect in the shooting death of a 21-year-old Atlanta man admitted to her part in…
Ludacris theGrio.com
October 16, 2019
Georgia State University is making way for Atlanta’s own Ludacris to serve as an artist-in-residence this fall, using his expertise…
Tyler Perry thegrio.com
October 1, 2019
While Tyler Perry understands outrage over the signing of the bill that outlaws abortion as early as six weeks, he’s…