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June 18, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - A retired Houston-area firefighter faces up to life in prison after a jury convicted him of murder…
June 14, 2012
The annual Juneteenth celebration in Stockton is the anniversary of Texas abolishing of slavery...
June 12, 2012
JASPER, Texas (AP) -The first black police chief of an East Texas town made infamous for a 1998 hate crime…
June 7, 2012
NFL star Terrell Owens has been taken to court for failure to pay child support of $5,000 a month...
May 22, 2012
In 1999, the town's first black highway patrolman, Rodney Pearson, was on the scene when a black man James Byrd…
May 17, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer in the alleged beating of a 15-year-old…
May 16, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) - A former Houston police officer was found not guilty Wednesday in the 2010 videotaped beating of a…
May 11, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A home owners' association in Harris County Texas sent an email to its members asking them to…
May 8, 2012
VIDEO - At 3 p.m. at Texas' Duncanville High School, it's time for cheerleading practice, but this squad is unlike…
April 20, 2012
SPRING, Texas (AP) - Verna McClain is accused of shooting 28-year-old Kala Golden outside a suburban Houston pediatric center and…
April 19, 2012
CONROE, Texas (AP) - A nurse who had suffered a miscarriage was desperate to find a child, so she went…
April 16, 2012
VIDEO - Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Nassau Bay, Texas is committed to helping people. But a break-in left extensive…
April 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, listed Florida, Kansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee and Texas, as…
March 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A new liberal political organization to seeking to build a coalition of minority voters and white liberals…
March 16, 2012
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Hip-hop stars completed a near takeover of the music conference and festival in Austin, Texas, overnight…
March 12, 2012
theGrio REPORT -The Department of Justice is blocking a Texas law that would require all voters to present photo identification…
March 5, 2012
A Texas newspaper is reporting that a spike in gun sales may be tied to the potential re-election of Barack…
February 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - It you watch the surveillance video carefully, you'll also see that Austin officers did not use excessive…
February 21, 2012
DENTON, Texas (AP) - The 83-year-old poet is hosting a radio special on the civil rights era airing on public…
February 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - On Friday, February 10, a middle-aged white man named Scott Henson was walking his 5-year-old black granddaughter…