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Oprah Winfrey theGrio.com
May 20, 2020
Oprah Winfrey shares on donating $12 million across the United States in COVID-19 relief efforts. 
Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier theGrio.com
April 7, 2020
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April “Confederate Heritage Month” as his way to honor Confederate soldiers who fought in the Civil…
March 11, 2020
Biden decisively won Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary, seizing a key battleground state that helped propel Sanders’ candidacy four years ago.
teens charged
February 26, 2020
Five teenagers have been charged with capital murder after they allegedly killed a 16-year-old girl in her Biloxi, Mississippi home
Noose
February 20, 2020
A young Mississippi girl was given a stuffed Black doll with a noose around its neck and now police have…
Mississippi State Prison
February 7, 2020
The Mississippi Department of Corrections is under investigation by the Justice Department after the recent and suspicious deaths of several…
Mississippi State Prison
January 27, 2020
The number of inmates losing their lives in the Mississippi prison system is now in double digits and officials have…
January 22, 2020
[griojw id=”s6tINg2D” playerid=””] Activists, celebrities, and everyday folks have been speaking out on social media about the five inmates recently
Mississippi State Prison
January 21, 2020
Two new prisoners at a Mississippi prison were killed in a violent conflict amid continuing reports of violence and poor…
Jay-Z
January 15, 2020
This week it was confirmed that hip-hop mogul and prison reform activist Jay-Z has sued the head of the Mississippi…
December 16, 2019
A judge will determine the bond for Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for the murders of four…
Ashley Henley and Hester Jackson-McCray thegrio.com
December 7, 2019
A month after her narrow loss to Democratic candidate Hester Jackson-McCray, the former incumbent Ashley Henley is asking the GOP-dominated…
November 2, 2019
A federal judge ruled Friday not to block Mississippi’s two-step process for electing statewide officeholders, which was enacted during the…
wet police officer cop
September 30, 2019
A city attorney in Mississippi argued a man shot by police in a case of mistaken identity, should not be…
September 13, 2019
In what may be a nationwide first, a group of students in the small town of Tylertown, Miss., are staging…
September 4, 2019
Curtis Flowers has been convicted several times of murder, but his many trials outline a pattern of race-based prosecutorial misconduct
Interracial
September 3, 2019
A wedding venue tried to argue that their faith dictates discrimination against an interracial couple that wanted to get married…
New Hampshire TheGrio
September 3, 2019
The Mississippi granny with a gun who tried to scare off a Black couple from a campground while holding a…
August 15, 2019
A Mississippi sheriff revealed his own thinking about African Americans, but says he is not racist...he was just "aggravated"
August 11, 2019
Presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., accused President Trump of running a campaign of terror in the US against illegal…