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GOP Sen. Tim Scott is sending misleading emails to South Carolinians that their “heat will be turned off” as part The post Tim Scott campaign emails telling SC citizens their heat will be s...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/09/tim-scotts-misleading-campaign-emails/

Caretakers of the Olivewood Cemetery in Houston are left outraged after construction workers replaced a new fence with a concrete The post Developers rip out fence at Houston’s oldest Black c...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/09/developers-rip-out-fence-at-houston-cemetery/

Arkansas native Jaylen Smith has made history as the youngest Black mayor ever to be elected in the country, FOX13 The post 18-year-old becomes youngest Black mayor in America appeared first o...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/09/jaylen-smith-youngest-black-mayor-in-america/

The Maine House of Representatives elected Democrat Rachel Talbot Ross, a Black lawmaker from Portland, as speaker on Wednesday. As The post Maine, the whitest state in America, elects first Bl...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/08/maine-elects-first-black-house-speaker/

One of Atlanta’s highest-performing elementary schools is at the center of a federal investigation in to whether students were assigned The post Dept. of Ed investigating possible civil right...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/08/dept-of-ed-investigating-atlanta-school/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval Thursday to legislation protecting same-sex marriages, a monumental step in a decadeslong The post Bill protecting same-sex, interracial unions...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/08/bill-protecting-same-sex-interracial-unions-clears-congress/

A Colorado woman is speaking out about feeling unsafe in her home after a SWAT team mistakingly invaded her residence.  The post Colorado woman, 77, left feeling unsafe after SWAT team mistaki...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/07/swat-team-mistakingly-invades-home/

Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill has been stripped of his law enforcement certification. The Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training The post Sheriff loses peace officer certification fo...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/07/sheriff-removed-from-peace-office-position/

A Black newspaper carrier confronted by a sheriff in Washington state in what he calls a racial profiling incident took The post Black newspaper carrier who was confronted by sheriff testifies ...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/07/sedrick-altheimer-black-newspaper-carrier-who-was-confronted-by-sheriff-testifies-at-trial/

Editor’s note: This article is published in partnership with The 74, a national nonprofit education news site. New York City The post Final Gift: Slain Brooklyn teacher’s aide Ethan Holder ...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/07/final-gift-slain-brooklyn-teachers-aide-ethan-holder-saves-6-lives/

Police in San Francisco will not allow robots to use deadly force. For now, at least. The city’s Board of The post San Francisco halts police plan to allow robots to use deadly force appeare...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/07/san-francisco-police-halt-plan-to-allow-deadly-force-robots/

Community groups in Buffalo’s historic Fruit Belt neighborhood on the East Side are on a mission to build more supermarkets The post Community groups in Buffalo building more supermarkets, ga...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/06/community-groups-respond-to-food-desert-crisis/

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were honored Tuesday with Congressional Gold The post Officers who defended Capitol from Trump suppor...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/06/officers-who-defended-capitol-from-trump-supporters-honored/

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia voters on Tuesday are deciding the final Senate contest in the country, choosing between Democratic Sen. The post Warnock or Walker? Georgia runoff to settle last Senat...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/06/warnock-or-walker-georgia-runoff-to-settle-last-senate-seat/

The water in Mississippi’s capital city is safe to drink. At least it is now, assures Ted Henifen, the Jackson The post Water in Jackson now safe to drink, third-party crisis manager says ap...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/06/water-in-jackson-now-safe-to-drink-third-party-crisis-manager-says/

FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — A southern Minnesota school district voted Monday to accept a $1.1 million state grant meant to The post Minnesota board accepts anti-drug aid for minority students a...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/06/minnesota-board-accepts-anti-drug-aid-for-minority-students/

A Belgian auction house is canceling the controversial sale of three human skulls from the country’s colonial-era after sparking criticism The post Belgian auctioneers cancel sale of African ...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/05/auctioneers-cancel-the-sale-of-african-skulls/

African-American employees at three hospitals in Poughkeepsie, New York, are calling for Juneteenth to be recognized as a holiday.  The The post Employees fighting for Poughkeepsie-area hospit...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/05/hospital-employees-fighting-to-recognize-juneteenth/

A Baltimore woman pleaded guilty to assault and gun charges after shooting her husband for allegedly molesting children who attended The post Woman who shot husband after accusations of child m...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/05/shanteari-weems-pleads-guilty-shot-husband-after-daycare-molestation-accusations/

An Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that Iran’s government is “paying attention to the people’s real demands,” state media reported, a The post Iran morality police status unclear after ‘...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/04/iran-morality-police-status-unclear/

Now that he’s back on Twitter, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin wants somebody to explain the rules. Anglin, the founder of an infamous The post As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job ...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/04/elon-musk-twitter-content-moderation/

Victims of the Uvalde school shooting that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit against local and state police, The post Uvalde shooting victims seek $27B, class action in lawsuit appeared...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/03/uvalde-mass-shooting-class-action-lawsuit/

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials are being sued in federal court by immigrant rights groups who challenge the The post Groups sue Florida officials over migrant relocation program ...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/03/groups-sue-florida-for-migrant-treatment/

Jayland Walker’s legal team says it is “dismayed” by a video that purports to show Akron police officers removing a The post Jayland Walker’s lawyers claim police removed ‘Justice for...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/02/jayland-walker-shooting/

HOUSTON (AP) — Police have arrested a 33-year-old man on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff, The post Man arrested in fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff appeared fir...

https://thegrio.com/2022/12/02/man-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-migos-rapper-takeoff/