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January 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Republican-backed plans to make electoral voting in swing states like Michigan, Virginia, Ohio and Florida proportional has…
January 8, 2013
PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) — The Harlem Globetrotters say they hope that deprived NHL fans have taken some comfort in watching…
December 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Just 24 hours after a Michigan state representative’s recall effort of Detroit Mayor Dave Bing went into…
December 1, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - The ruling that ended Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions was put on hold Friday…
November 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For the third time this year, the city of Detroit is staring at potential bankruptcy as legal…
November 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The mother of a Michigan college student has launched an online petition to have her deceased son's…
November 23, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - When black U.S. voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of…
November 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - On Thursday, a federal appeals court threw out Michigan's controversial voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college…
November 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A 19-year-old who happens to be named Denzel Washington was picking his brother up from work in…
November 12, 2012
DETROIT - Among the string of new faces that secured Election Day victories last Tuesday, there was an unexpected victor…
November 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A grown man has reportedly been booted out of a central Michigan high school after it was…
November 7, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Public Act 4, Michigan’s controversial emergency financial manager law, was struck down by voters in a tightly…
August 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For the last 10 days, whenever Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields enters a room, she’s greeted like…
August 6, 2012
DETROIT – With Friday’s 4-3 ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court that Public Act 4, the state’s controversial Emergency Manager…
August 3, 2012
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - An attempt to kill a Michigan law that gives emergency managers sweeping powers to fix poor…
July 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - In an apartment building in Detroit, 9-year-old Jarod Barnett plunged to his death in what appears to…
July 10, 2012
The unemployment rate in the Motor City has decreased for African-Americans
July 1, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The robocalls question whether Clarke and his late mother, Thelma Hashim, are black. Ron Scott, a media…
June 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit will receive a $22.5 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Staffing for Adequate Fire…
June 25, 2012
FLINT, Mich. (AP) - A man convicted of murder in a 2010 stabbing spree in Michigan was sentenced to life…