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March 11, 2014
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in the retrial of three Pittsburgh police officers — one who has…
November 13, 2013
PITTSBURGH (AP) — School officials say three people were shot in or near a Pittsburgh high school, and police are…
October 9, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Carrick High School in Pittsburgh originally dedicated one day during their homecoming week to slain teen Trayvon…
June 5, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more…
January 16, 2013
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pennsylvania detective is trying to figure out how an apparent prankster was able to fill out…
December 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Wiz Khalifa released his sophomore album O.N.I.F.C. last week, and today celebrates a day that will forever…
November 28, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Pittsburgh-native went on somewhat of a Twitter rant about waiting for his flight and being fed…
November 16, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh record store owner has found what he calls "the holy grail of 78s" in a…
November 13, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - According to The New Yorker, 35-year-old African-American dancer Kyle Abraham is reinterpreting the Oscar nominated film in…
November 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights groups sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez today about alleged efforts…
September 21, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A suicidal man who held a businessman hostage inside a downtown Pittsburgh office building for more than…
September 21, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An armed man with a military background took a hostage inside an upper floor of a downtown…
September 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Pennsylvania House Representative Daryl Metcalfe told a local radio host yesterday morning that the state cannot carry…
August 24, 2012
(AP) - A 19-year-old woman who falsely claimed to be pregnant was arraigned Friday on charges she kidnapped a 3-day-old…
July 18, 2012
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The lawyer for a black high school student who said he was beaten and wrongly arrested by…
July 16, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A controversial voter identification law adopted earlier this year here could potentially prevent tens of thousands of…
July 9, 2012
MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) - A Pittsburgh woman has been jailed on charges she attacked her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and other…
May 18, 2012
In 1966, at the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, national and local activists around the country united around a…
May 11, 2012
In Pittsburgh, the Afro American Music Institute has used music as an unexpected gateway to life skills and academic success…
April 6, 2012
For the Game Changers Project, a national media initiative to reframe the images and perception of black males in the…