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January 13, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Memphis mother says her son's teacher choked him in one of the school's hallways. Surveillance video…
December 28, 2014
Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson is winning praise for a holiday message he posted on the Metro Government of Nashville
December 18, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A Memphis-area funeral director is offering his apology for transporting a woman's body in the back of…
November 20, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A Shelby County, Tennessee, officer has been charged for fatally shooting one woman and attempting to shoot…
November 4, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Memphis Pastor Don Smith was shot and killed Saturday — and his family still doesn't have any…
November 1, 2014
Shelby County, TN — Al Green’s neighbors are terrified, and it’s not because of the Halloween weekend. WMC-TV is reporting that one
October 30, 2014
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man being arrested on charges of illegal marijuana possession told police he was Academy…
October 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Several high school students in Tennessee have been suspended after allegations of prostitution were brought to the…
September 2, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Thirty-two teenagers escaped Monday night from a Nashville detention center...
June 2, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A Tennessee couple incorporated their one-month-old baby into their wedding ceremony by attaching the infant to the…
May 22, 2014
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former corrections officer pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally shooting two workers at a rural Tennessee…
April 23, 2014
VIDEO - Around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, security officers at the National Civil Rights Museum they heard glass breaking and…
April 5, 2014
NBC News - The main section of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. reopens to the public on…
April 4, 2014
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - The leadership at the National Civil Rights Museum made a decision to give their exhibits a complete overhaul…
February 4, 2014
THOMPSON STATION, Tenn. (AP) — Former 'Saturday Night Live' cast member Victoria Jackson has filed to run as an independent…
January 13, 2014
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Renovations are beginning on a schoolhouse in West Tennessee that was once attended by singer Tina…
September 19, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - An African-American businessman has spent thousands of dollars of his hard earned cash to urge young men…
September 11, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Following the international attention Toni Christina Jenkins gained after posting a receipt she received with a racial…
August 15, 2013
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Wisconsin-based nonprofit association of atheists and agnostics says it has filed a complaint against a…
August 13, 2013
OPINION - The black community is known for doling out unique (sometimes cringe-worthy) names--but earlier this week when a Tennessee…