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Clarksdale
May 22, 2019
Clarksdale, Miss. Mayor Chuck Espy is so serious about getting drug dealers and gangbangers out of his city that he's…
N-word
May 21, 2019
A furniture store merchant admits he used the n-word with people in his store and insists that he was justified…
May 19, 2019
Five Black women have accused management of using tactics based on their race to keep them from being successful exotic…
Storms
April 19, 2019
Thousands are left without power as rough spring weather sweeps through the region causing fatalities and damaging property in Georgia,…
Tornadoes
April 15, 2019
Areas of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Georgia were hit by a series of tornadoes that caused fatalities and injuries and…
Mississippi
April 12, 2019
More images buried in the past of politicians linked to blackface images have been revealed, this time with a Mississippi…
March 14, 2019
In an exclusive interview with theGrio, Fannie Lou Hamer's daughter celebrates her mother on the 42nd anniversary of the civil…
Confederate Flag
January 18, 2019
Mississippi police have been accused of causing injuries during the arrest of a man on misdemeanor charges that ultimately led
Brittany Noble-Jones thegrio.com
January 12, 2019
A black television news anchor says she was wrongly terminated by bosses at WJTV who said natural hairstyle, was “unprofessional."
Lanekia Michelle Brown
December 26, 2018
Lanekia Michelle Brown had been arrested on a drug charge, but her family wants to know why the 37-year-old mother,…
Gavel
November 30, 2018
Despite Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s controversial win amid her public hanging scandal, Black women in the state still made gains…
Cindy Hyde-Smith
November 28, 2018
Cindy Hyde-Smith, whose campaign for U.S. Senate was dogged by her racially charged comments at a campaign rally narrowly took…
Cindy Hyde-Smith
November 26, 2018
"We're hanging nooses to remind people that times haven't changed," read one of the signs, which were written in different…
Cindy Hyde-Smith
November 21, 2018
Already in enough hot water for her "public hanging" comments about her U.S. Senate runoff race opponent Mike Espy, Cindy…
Cindy Hyde-Smith thegrio.com
November 12, 2018
Republican Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith found is in a video where she's admitting she'd be "on the front row" if invited…
confederate flag thegrio.com
November 9, 2018
A confederate flag is one thing, but the way this man used it was really doing too much, so it's…
Mississippi high school band thegrio.com
October 9, 2018
A school in Mississippi is under fire after videos of the school’s band members holding fake guns during a halftime
Jesse Williams thegrio.com
September 24, 2018
[griojw id=”XGKrueDp” playerid=”x9J2bwvH”]   Jesse Williams, the human rights activist and longtime star of Grey’s Anatomy, is set to make
Chris McDaniel TheGrio
September 16, 2018
Chris McDaniel made the comments Friday during an edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show taped live at Ole Miss –…
Emmett Till TheGrio
August 24, 2018
The murder of Emmett Till is just as relevant today as it was in 1955 when his death sparked an…