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July 20, 2020
David A. Love says honoring the legacy of John Lewis must also include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama…
October 9, 2019
Steven Reed is the city's first Black mayor in its 200-year history more than six decades after it became the…
Lynching Memorial
April 25, 2018
The nation’s first museum/memorial dedicated to the victims of lynchings is set to open in Montgomery, Ala. On Thursday and it offers…
March 3, 2016
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Authorities filed a murder charge against 23-year-old Officer Aaron Smith and began the process of firing…
June 4, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama senators took a step toward renaming Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge, a historic site in the…
April 2, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — An inmate on Alabama's death row for nearly 30 years will go free after prosecutors said…
December 2, 2014
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama minister was back in court Monday, fighting to keep his job after confessing he…
October 13, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The last place you would expect Juan McFarland to be in on Sunday was the pulpit. But…
October 9, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Church pastor, Juan McFarland, recently admitted he had AIDS and had slept with church members without revealing…
June 20, 2014
VIDEO - A Korean War Veteran's 56-year struggle for Veterans Affairs benefits is finally over...
April 10, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Alabama families rallied in Montgomery Wednesday, responding to controversial comments made by State Rep. Alvin Holmes (D-Montgomery)…
August 28, 2013
MSNBC - Bruce Davidson is a Magnum photographer and a revered master of social documentary photography...
July 23, 2013
VIDEO - A young mother lost the ashes of her recently deceased baby when the purse she was carrying them…
April 17, 2012
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick has made another effort to say animal cruelty is wrong, urging…
March 21, 2012
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) - Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer is being honored at the Alabama Statehouse, where about 400 people turned…
March 7, 2012
Rev. Al Sharpton is leading a symbolic march from Selma to Montgomery to bring attention to controversial voting laws and…
March 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The five-day march from Selma to Montgomery, which retraces the steps Martin Luther King. Jr and others…
May 20, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station…
May 20, 2011
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Freedom Riders were trying to integrate Southern bus stations when they arrived in Montgomery on…
February 23, 2011
VIDEO - NBC News affiliate WSFA interviewed Alabama State University students who felt embarrassed by the fight and the image...