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Washington D.C.
August 16, 2019
A Georgia family is grieving after the gruesome discovery of a pregnant 19-year-old’s body was found buried near her home…
Stacey Abrams
August 14, 2019
Stacey Abrams has upgraded plans for her voter’s rights organization Fair Fight 2020 that includes training activists to protect voters…
August 8, 2019
Brandi Lasiter is being questioned by police after appearing on a Facebook video in which she named the individuals she…
Handcuffs thegrio.com
July 29, 2019
A woman who police say fled to Atlanta after stabbing her child tried to deceive authorities into believing another suspect…
Georgia State Rep Erica Thomas holds press conference about Eric Sparkes' verbal assault at Publix. (WSB-TV)
July 24, 2019
Rep. Erica Thomas says she was verbally attacked by Eric Sparkes, but authorities did not feel it was a criminal…
jail thegrio.com
July 23, 2019
A Georgia woman is in custody after getting into a fight while holding her infant son and dropping him, causing…
Georgia State Rep Erica Thomas holds press conference about Eric Sparkes' verbal assault at Publix. (WSB-TV)
July 22, 2019
Georgia State Rep. Erica Thomas held a press conference at the State Capitol to stand by her story and dispute…
July 21, 2019
After video of white man racial abuse in a Publix line, Georgia State Rep. Erica Thomas confronted the man in…
Louie Rankin
July 11, 2019
A 19-year-old man was barely alive when a Lyft driver found him moments after a motorist struck him and left…
confederate flag thegrio.com
July 3, 2019
Allison and Zeke Brown of Atlanta hired the contractor, named Michael, to fix their golf cart brakes but when he…
July 1, 2019
The woman who took a picture of a man sleeping in a Fayette County, Georgia McDonald’s and posted it on…
police
June 21, 2019
A former Gwinnett County Georgia police officer accused of beating up an unarmed Black man cut a plea deal against…
Tiffany Haddish arrives at the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP)
June 20, 2019
Tiffany Haddish says she chose to join a boycott of Georgia after she read the state's new anti-abortion legislation.Haddish announced…
Tiffany Haddish
June 17, 2019
Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has canceled her upcoming Atlanta performance because of Georgia's new restrictive abortion law.
Stacey Abrams
June 3, 2019
Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams wants Hollywood execs with productions in Georgia to fight abortion laws there instead of…
In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, burn victim Anthony Gooden gets help with his injured hand during a break in the trial for Martin Blackwell in Atlanta. Blackwell, who was convicted of throwing scalding water on a Gooden and his boyfriend while they slept, told one of them to “get out of my house with all that gay,” a victim testified, but he couldn’t be charged with a hate crime because the state has no such law. Georgia is one of only four states - along with South Carolina, Wyoming and Arkansas - without an official hate crimes law. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
June 3, 2019
A Georgia man convicted of throwing scalding water on a sleeping same-sex couple told one of them to "get out…
Dog
May 30, 2019
A Black man and a woman who had a gun pulled on them at a dog park in Douglas County…
Netflix
May 28, 2019
Netflix says it is waiting to see if the state's controversial abortion law will be blocked by legal challenges, and…
South Atlanta high school thegro.com
May 21, 2019
A Georgia teacher has been removed from a classroom after a video showing a violent attack against one of his…
social media, teens, slur, thegrio.com
May 16, 2019
After a white woman was charged with shooting a black man she witnessed in a hit-and-run collision, a white supremacist…