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April 17, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - About a month after Jim Boggess posted a "white history month" sign in the window of his…
April 10, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A New Jersey elementary school teacher is in hot water after she announced on social media that…
March 7, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A 10-year-old in New Jersey fell to his death from the window of a classroom on the…
January 21, 2015
BRIDGETON, New Jersey (AP) — Another videotaped police killing is raising tensions in another U.S. city, this time in New…
January 18, 2015
theGrio REPORT - A New Jersey woman who authorities say put her newborn baby in the middle of a road…
January 12, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A pastor was caught on video describing the way he punched a younger member of his congregation…
October 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Police arrested Barnabas “Hammer” Davis’ Monday after finding more than 600 packets of heroin, according to NBC10.com's…
October 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Two East African children will remain home past the 21-day waiting period before beginning elementary school in…
September 30, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Empowering. Enlightening. Magical. These three words only begin to describe this past weekend's two-day event hosted by…
September 16, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The 3-year-old's parents told New York's WNBC they were "terrified" to learn their daughter Madison left school…
May 15, 2014
(AP) — Ras Baraka, son of the late militant poet and activist Amiri Baraka, declared victory Tuesday in the race…
April 9, 2014
TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — New Jersey's Supreme Court has heard arguments in the case of a man whose attempted…
February 27, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of New Jersey's capital city was removed from office by a judge Wednesday, 19…
February 3, 2014
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Trooper William Carvounis, 35, of North Brunswick, N.J., was at a Cabela's sporting goods store on Jan.…
January 31, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former loyalist of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who oversaw lane closings near the George…
January 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Olympian Carl Lewis is the latest New Jersey political figure to accuse the state’s governor, Chris Christie,…
January 21, 2014
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis says Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie dropped a plan…
January 18, 2014
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A cacophony of bagpipes, African drums and jazz riffs creatively blended— much like the elements…
January 17, 2014
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be among those honoring activist poet-playwright Amiri Baraka at a wake…
January 14, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - In 2010, Wallace, who came to the end of his seven-year term as the only African-American on…