Frank Thomas announces retirement from baseball after 19 seasons
By theGrio
2:43 PM on 02/12/2010
CHICAGO (AP) - Frank Thomas has announced his retirement following a 19-season career in which he hit 521 homers and won two American League MVP awards with the Chicago White Sox...
Tennessee diver becomes first black national champion
By theGrio
2:29 PM on 02/12/2010
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Michael Wright, a 22-year-old senior at Tennessee, won the title Monday at the USA Diving Winter National Championships...
Holder may abandon civilian trial for 9/11 mastermind
By theGrio
1:14 PM on 02/12/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder is leaving open the possibility of trying professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission...
Jamie Foxx delivers music, instruments to kids
By theGrio
10:20 AM on 02/12/2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jamie Foxx wanted to entertain a group of musically inclined high school students with a few bars from his Grammy winning hit, "Blame It"...
Haitians hold day of mourning on quake anniversary
By theGrio
9:19 AM on 02/12/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE(AP) - In many of the outdoor camps, trucks with loudspeakers blast evangelical music while missionaries talk to families under tarps...
Army discharging single mom who refused deployment
By theGrio
8:12 AM on 02/12/2010
SAVANNAH, Georgia (AP) - Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, an Army cook stationed at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, was arrested in November after skipping her unit's deployment flight...
Bill Clinton hospitalized; undergoes heart surgery
By theGrio
3:26 PM on 02/11/2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton had two stents inserted Thursday to prop open a clogged heart artery...
Holyfield's wife says boxer hit her several times
By theGrio
2:40 PM on 02/11/2010
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Evander Holyfield's wife claims the boxing great hit her after an argument. She now has a temporary protective order against him...
Haiti's differing death counts add to confusion
By theGrio
10:16 AM on 02/11/2010
TITANYEN, Haiti (AP) - Wildly conflicting death tolls from Haitian officials have raised suspicions that no one really knows how many people died in the Jan. 12 earthquake...
Caught on tape: High school soccer brawl
By theGrio
9:58 AM on 02/11/2010
VIDEO - Mississippi's two top 6-A soccer teams went head to head in a championship match that ended in a vicious attack on a player...
Bus tunnel beating spurs criticism of 'observe and report' security
By theGrio
9:42 AM on 02/11/2010
VIDEO - Three unarmed security guards were following orders last month when they stood by without intervening as a 15-year-old girl was badly beaten...
South Africans celebrate 20 years of change
9:23 AM on 02/11/2010
JOHANNESBURG - The meaning of Mandela's release doesn't only resonate with South Africans of color. It hits home to white South Africans as well...
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Black News from TheGrio – 2/14/10
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