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August 11, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal court hearing was scheduled to continue Tuesday for two Mississippi residents arrested on charges…
July 20, 2015
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A black Mississippi man who often dressed in Confederate regalia to support the state flag has…
July 10, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death of 39-year-old Jonathan Sanders, who died on Wednesday…
June 23, 2015
(AP) - In the wake of a massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a bipartisan mix of…
June 23, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A top Mississippi  lawmaker says the Confederate battle emblem is offensive and needs to be removed
June 21, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Bartholomew Orr, senior pastor at Brown Baptist Missionary Church in northern Mississippi, believes that churches should invest…
June 12, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - The witness heard 'round the world has been placed under arrest. This week, Courtney Barnes' colorful account…
June 10, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Courtney Barnes just raised the bar for all future witnesses. A Mississippi news station asked Barnes about…
June 10, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Mississippi family has reason to cheer again. A school official has decided to drop charges against…
June 8, 2015
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi school superintendent who pressed charges against people for cheering at a high school graduation…
June 3, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Four people have been served warrants for cheering at a high school graduation...
May 11, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A woman from Laurel, Mississippi, lost her job after she posted on Facebook celebrating the murder of…
May 11, 2015
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — With lowered flags and prayers, a southern Mississippi city is mourning two police officers, while the…
March 21, 2015
PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of a black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been…
March 20, 2015
PORT GIBSON, Miss. (AP) — Federal and state authorities are investigating the hanging death of a black man in Mississippi
February 26, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three more young white men, all part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi’s capital city
February 18, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Joseph Foreman, 40, also known as Afroman, was performing onstage Tuesday night after Biloxi's Mardi Gras parade…
February 16, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Judge Bill Weisenberger, who stepped down from his position in June, was indicted this week by a…
February 15, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A Mississippi state lawmaker is now admitting he opposed putting more money into elementary schools because he…
February 9, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Once Ridgeland Police police found Carneigio Gray and began to him on contempt charges, his six-year-old nephew…