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May 5, 2022
Stanton, a highly experienced and trusted attorney at Butler Snow LLP, takes the helm in Tennessee's lethal injection investigation.
May 5, 2022
It took trips over state lines, navigating roads and laws, for a South Dakota mother of two to get abortion…
May 4, 2022
The small predominantly Black town of Mason announced Wednesday it had reached a deal halting the threat of a state takeover…
confederate flag thegrio.com
April 24, 2022
Two years after voting to remove the Confederate flag from its seal, a Tennessee county finally has the go-ahead to…
Pamela Moses
April 23, 2022
Charges against Black Lives Matter activist Pamela Moses are dismissed. She will no longer face a second trial for registering…
Cell Block
April 22, 2022
The GOP-led legislature of Tennessee passed a new bill that requires persons sentenced for certain felonies to serve 100% of…
April 16, 2022
Archeologist Camille Westmont is on a mission to find the descendants of convicts who worked the mines in Tennessee after…
April 15, 2022
The majority Black town of Mason, Tennessee is facing new scrutiny of its finances now that a Ford plant is…
April 7, 2022
Earlier this year, the AMC Church halted pension payouts to its thousands of retired pastors, bishops and others.
April 4, 2022
The Shelby County Election Commission has been hit with a lawsuit by the NAACP Memphis Branch, voting rights group, and…
April 4, 2022
At age 6, Walton was already taking pictures from the sidelines of the annual Southern Heritage Classic football game in…
April 1, 2022
Tami Sawyer, a Memphis county commissioner, maintained that George Johnson harassed her at her home and also threatened her.
March 31, 2022
Tennessee, which has already handcuffed K-12 teachers, is now going after universities for "divisive concepts."
March 22, 2022
A jury convicted a Tennessee man in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, whose body was found in a…
March 8, 2022
For years, I thought Arrested Development’s sophomore album, Zingalamaduni, was the most criminally slept-on album EVER.
February 10, 2022
Shanynthia Gardner slit the throats of her four youngest children in 2016: Tallen, 4; Sya, 3; Sahvi, who was 2,…
February 5, 2022
The jury is mulling the two penalty options for 33-year-old Travis Reinking after hearing family members of the four people…
Tennessee Senator Katrina Robinson www.theGrio.com
February 4, 2022
Tennessee Sen. Katrina Robinson has been expelled from office after the Republican-led Senate voted to remove the Memphis lawmaker.
Pamela Moses thegrio.com
February 4, 2022
Memphis activist Pamela Moses has been sentenced to six years and one day in prison for illegally registering to vote…
February 3, 2022
Brandon Isabelle reportedly shot Danielle Hoyle in the head and threw their newborn, Kennedy Hoyle, from a bridge.