New York News

New York Fashion Week kicks off with black models running the show

By Nakita Austin

12:02 PM on 02/09/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Artists, celebrities, and designers may use their fame and fortune to support various foundations and causes but Canadian fashion house Obakki goes above and beyond...
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Jay-Z now 2nd rapper to perform at Carnegie Hall

By theGrio

8:52 AM on 02/07/2012

CHICAGO - As Jay-Z transitioned from hit song to hit song at a Carnegie Hall concert Monday night, so did the lighting, changing from red to white to blue...
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TheGrio's 100: Traci Lester, striving to improve early literacy for low-income children

By Keosha Johnson

2:59 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Traci Lester is the executive director of Reach Out and Read's Greater New York branch, which works with pediatric offices to provide free books for children...
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TheGrio's 100: Rep. Yvette Clarke, working on Capitol Hill for a better future for her district

By Keosha Johnson

12:17 AM on 01/31/2012

theGRIO's 100 - Rep. Yvette Clarke is a Brooklyn native and the youngest African American to serve in the U.S. Congress...
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Mom abandons 2 daughters on Brooklyn sidewalk with extra diapers

By theGrio

9:25 AM on 01/30/2012

On Sunday afternoon, two girls, ages 5 and 3 were found on a Brooklyn sidewalk with just their jackets, UGG boots, and pairs of extra diapers...
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Jay-Z launches lavish 40/40 club re-opening

By Nakita Austin

2:06 PM on 01/19/2012

SLIDESHOW - Jay-Z stepped out for the first time since the birth of his baby girl to celebrate and re-launch his flagship New York nightclub, the 40/40...
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School arrests in NYC mostly black or Latino males

By Donovan X. Ramsey

10:44 AM on 01/06/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Recent numbers from the New York City Police Department show that an average of one student per day is arrested in the city. Almost always that child is a black or Latino male...
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Does rise of Latino population spell doom for the Congressional Black Caucus?

By David A. Love

8:24 AM on 01/05/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Changing demographics throughout the nation, combined with retiring lawmakers and redistricting, have members of the Congressional Black Caucus concerned that they will lose long-held black seats...
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Black Santas make Christmas a little less white

By Marlie Hall

7:53 AM on 12/25/2011

VIDEO - Like shopping for gifts then wrapping them up, some Christmas traditions rarely change. But there's one classic image of the holiday season that seems to be...
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Trump drops Republican Party registration in NY

By theGrio

10:38 AM on 12/24/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has changed his voter registration in New York state from Republican to unaffiliated...
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NY neighbors plan vigil in memory of torched woman

By theGrio

3:10 PM on 12/20/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - Deloris Gillespie was a fun-loving, fast-talking mother of four who helped anyone she could in her Brooklyn neighborhood and at the post office where she worked for years...
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Occupy Wall Street supporters shed light on Wall Street's slavery past

By theGrio

3:36 PM on 12/19/2011

Near the corner of Wall and Pearl streets, where businessmen and tourists plod below the towering office buildings and banks that loom over the East River, are the buried...
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VH1 Divas celebrate soul and bring house down

By Tamy Cozier

2:18 PM on 12/19/2011

Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Chaka Khan are just a few of the soul sisters who rocked New York's Hammerstein Ballroom...
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Police: woman 'torched' in New York apartment elevator

By NBC Local

2:02 PM on 12/18/2011

A man reeking of gasoline walked into a police station overnight and implicated himself in the death of a woman hosed down with an accelerant and set ablaze in the elevator of her apartment building, authorities said Sunday.
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New York City man makes $55K a year selling candy on train

By Alexis Garrett Stodghill

11:36 AM on 12/06/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Outlets on both sides of the Atlantic are reporting on a New York City man who makes $55,000 a year selling candy on the train...
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New York's oldest African film festival still rolling

By Chika Oduah

12:11 PM on 11/23/2011

theGRIO VIDEO - New York's longest running film festival for filmmakers of color begins November 25 and continues to bring a diverse mix of independent and classic films...
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Angry over spying, Muslims say: 'Don't call NYPD'

By theGrio

6:49 AM on 11/14/2011

NEW YORK (AP) -- After a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.,,
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Black firm throws weight behind Alicia Keys' 'Stick Fly'

By Tamy Cozier

1:30 PM on 10/25/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Walker International Communications Group has been contracted to help the Alicia Keys backed production 'Stick Fly' succeed when it makes its debut in December...
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NYPD officer charged for lying about race-based arrest

By theGrio

9:12 AM on 10/18/2011

NEW YORK - An NYPD officer has been arrested for civil rights violations in part because he allegedly lied about the arrest of an unarmed man and later used using racially charged language about that arrest...
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Is 'Occupy Wall Street' becoming blacker?

By Terrell Starr

9:43 AM on 10/12/2011

theGRIO REPORT - In this mix is Erin Malone, an African-American female from Brooklyn, helping to make sure all of these voices are being seen and heard...
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