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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…
June 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Of the many issues presented by Detroit’s plummeting population is that it has not only altered the…
June 15, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing lashed out Thursday against 'people with personal agendas' he blames for stalling his…
June 14, 2012
Detroit's population loss is beginning to effect it's national representation, for the first time in 57-years the city may not…
June 8, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - A government survey shows more teens are now smoking pot than cigarettes. The Centers for Disease Control…