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April 4, 2014
MSNBC - The College of Charleston is tearing at the seams as outraged students and alumni protest the selection of…
March 4, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Later this month will officially mark 70 years since George Stinney Jr. was first accused of murdering…
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - Benjamin is the mayor of Columbia, South Carolina. When he first won in 2010, he became the…
January 31, 2014
theGRIO'S 100 - The veteran political operative, who ran Obama's black vote program in 2008 and then worked in the…
January 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A child psychiatrist said it was her professional opinion that George Stinney Jr.'s alleged confession was "coerced,…
January 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A hearing to determine whether or not an executed teen deserves a new trial ended without a…
January 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Barber took Scott to task for backing Tea Party policies he believes are detrimental to people of…
January 21, 2014
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy executed by South Carolina nearly 70 years ago is finally getting another day…
January 16, 2014
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped disorderly conduct, trespassing and resisting arrest charges against South Carolina NAACP Lonnie Randolph…
January 13, 2014
theGRIO VIDEO - Fast forward to 2014, the reigning champion of American Idol is poised for a shot at superstardom...
December 27, 2013
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Leaving a judge to decide whether to throw out the conviction of a 14-year-old boy executed…
December 16, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - A hearing date has reportedly been set in the push to 'reopen' the case of the youngest…
December 13, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Rick Wade says he doesn't consider himself the underdog in his upcoming run for U.S. Senate from…
December 5, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - Wilford 'Johnny' Hunter tells theGrio.com's Todd Johnson he was serving time for car theft in a South…
November 29, 2013
VIDEO - The events leading to the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., began in the tiny mill town of…
November 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On June 16, 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed in the 20th century...
November 8, 2013
RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A top U.S. Agriculture Department official praised a South Carolina pilot program Thursday and said it…
November 5, 2013
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A spokeswoman for the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport says airport police arrested the 42-year-old entertainer, whose real…
October 24, 2013
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Standing near where tens of thousands of African slaves landed in Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley…
October 15, 2013
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two rare documents from a fleeting time after the Civil War when the University of South…