Sybil Garbow. Courtesy of Emily Baxter. A judge sentenced an older Black woman to 6 months after a jury convicted her of assault. Sybil Garbow, 72, said she acted in self-defense against a white coworker. Garbow lost her nursing job as a result and says she’ll struggle to pay the $50,000 in restitution. Get the Read More…
(South Central Heaven, Paradise) — On Sunday morning, theGrio began receiving preliminary reports that the secret naval unit of Black America had been dispatched to Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Ala. The unit was responding to a skirmish that the Montgomery Advertiser would later describe as “racially divided,” after a dockworker asked pontoon boaters to move Read More…
The parents’ attorneys also accused the hospital in Riverdale of of trying to cover up the decapitation by discouraging the couple from getting an autopsy. ATLANTA — A doctor used too much force and decapitated a Georgia woman’s baby during delivery, according to a lawsuit attorneys said was filed Wednesday. The baby’s mother and father, Read More…
The viral photograph, a prelude to Everest’s deadliest day in years. (Nirmal Purja Project Possible Ltd.) It was morning and bright, and Reinhard Grubhofer, depleted and dehydrated, hoisted his body over a crest and rose uneasily. There, from the summit of Mount Everest, he could see everything. How the earth curved gorgeously in all direction; Read More…
Share When West Virginia police got a call about something odd going on in a Kroger grocery store bathroom, they assumed it would be just another routine response. But when they got there and heard the noises coming from the restroom stall, one cop came out of it much different than when he entered. Employees at Read More…
Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) Share All sharing options ThereThere is a bee twiddling its legs on the moonlit dashboard of Bill Crawford’s pickup. I tell him we’ve got a straggler before it crawls under a stack of stained papers. There are roughly 4 Read More…
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