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New York approves first dispensary licenses
November 22, 2022
New York approved licenses to 36 businesses and nonprofits to open the state's first cannabis retail dispensaries, giving 19 to…
September 21, 2022
Africa-America Institute 38th annual awards gala, honoring achievements of Africans and African descendants, was held on Tuesday in New York…
James Earl Jones, theGrio.com
September 13, 2022
Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, the second theater on the Great White Way named…
July 12, 2022
Tops Friendly Market in East Buffalo, closed since a white supremacist targeted it in May, is set to reopen its…
Snoop Dogg NFT theGrio.com
July 6, 2022
The Snoop Dogg impersonator ‘Doop Snogg’ was hired to trick fans at an NFT conference to call out the culture…
July 5, 2022
The DOJ is considering whether to seek the death penalty against the Buffalo suspect accused of murdering 10 African Americans.
July 4, 2022
Kelly's “current life circumstances undoubtedly bring emotional distress,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie Speight wrote in a court filing.
July 3, 2022
While fireworks are a an essential Independence Day celebration tool, they were first developed in China millennia ago.
June 29, 2022
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward
June 28, 2022
Hochul beat back primary challenges Tuesday from New York City’s elected public advocate, Jumaane Williams, and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi.
June 28, 2022
Most people who contract monkeypox recover, but there are long-term implications with the disease, not to mention the stigma.
June 28, 2022
Marlin Briscoe, who became the first Black starting quarterback in the American Football League more than 50 years ago, has…
June 26, 2022
Jones is seeking re-election in New York's 10th Congressional District, which is comprised of Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn.
June 26, 2022
Parades celebrating LGBTQ pride kick off in some of America’s biggest cities Sunday amid new fears about the potential erosion…
June 25, 2022
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, some public defenders heralded…
June 23, 2022
In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms…
June 23, 2022
A white school teacher in New York denies forcing Black students to pick cotton as part of a history lesson.…
June 20, 2022
New York's governor signed a law Monday intended to prevent local officials from enacting rules that might suppress people's voting…
June 20, 2022
A law hastily enacted by state lawmakers after the attack in Buffalo restricts sales of vests defined as "bullet-resistant soft…
June 18, 2022
William J. Ryan, who is white, was arrested on a second-degree charge of menacing as a hate crime following a…