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September 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Marissa Alexander, convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for firing a gun over the head…
September 11, 2013
LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — The investigation of a domestic dispute between George Zimmerman and his estranged wife is on…
August 20, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Coalition to End Gun Violence has released a new PSA calling for the end to Stand…
July 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Charles Barkley is never at a loss for words. So why would reacting to the George Zimmerman…
July 16, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday strongly criticized stand-your-ground laws that allow a person who believes…
July 15, 2013
MSNBC - Alexander, an African-American Florida woman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for shooting what she…
July 15, 2013
NBC NEWS - Shawn Vincent, an aide to defense attorney Mark O’Mara, told NBC News on Sunday that the Keltec…
July 12, 2013
(AP) - The defense in the George Zimmerman trial urged jurors Friday to acquit him in the death of Trayvon…
July 12, 2013
NBC News - The parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin say they want to see "justice" in the second-degree…
July 3, 2013
NBC NEWS - Zimmerman took the course, along with classes in criminal justice and investigation, at Seminole State College, a…
February 15, 2013
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The judge handling the case of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin says it would take extreme…
November 20, 2012
A Tampa jury have found a 71-year old black man was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of…
October 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP held a press conference Friday to send out a clear message that they will continue…
October 6, 2012
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — For seven years, Anita McNeil has tried to move on from what she calls "the incident"…
October 2, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - An African-American businessman, who is serving a life sentence for what activists say is a tragic miscarriage…
July 27, 2012
John McNeil has been in prison for five and half years after being found guilty on murder charges....
July 2, 2012
A mother was arrested and booked second-degree murder charge after fatally stabbing her daughter's boyfriend Saturday night during a physical…
June 12, 2012
LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida task force will hold its first public meeting just miles from where 17-year-old Trayvon…
May 4, 2012
CeCe McDonald, a black transgender woman, plead guilty to second degree manslaughter in order to lessen her sentence for the…
April 24, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - To her family and supporters, Marissa Alexander is a woman who stood her ground...