This image released by PBS shows actor Laurence Fishburne, left, with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of the series “Finding Your Roots.” (PBS via AP) The Harvard scholar learns a long-buried puzzle about his great-great-grandmother sprouting a new branch on the family tree from Ireland. For 11 seasons, Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sat across from…
Students walk on the Stanford University campus, March 14, 2019, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File) More schools are seeing visas stripped from students with no known connection to protests. Colleges around the country are reporting some of their international students’ visas are being revoked unexpectedly, expressing alarm over what appears to be a…
Source: Mark Wilson / Getty America is on the brink of a recession, the stock market is trash, the federal government barely exists, and the president of people who have enough money that they don’t have to care about any of this is planning a military parade birthday party. Talk about tone deaf. According to…
A Texas man recorded a now-viral video showing his wife, who is Black, being stopped and ticketed by police for walking on the wrong side of the road. Now, the couple is demanding an apology, alleging police turned a minor incident into an “excessive show of power.” Brad Townes filmed the moments two police officers…
Recent comments by Alabama Barker, the 19-year-old daughter of Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, did not sit well with some people on the internet. Footage of Alabama playing a game that led to her trying to convince some of her friends to pull a prank on homes in a wealthy…
“Full House” star John Stamos has been added to the list of celebrities accused of aligning with Donald Trump after the inauguration. The actor who played Uncle Jessie on the ’90s sitcom is facing a wave of backlash and threats of being canceled by disgruntled fans after handling master of ceremony duties for a charity…
Source: Lester Cohen / Getty Michael Jackson led a short but eventful life, to say the least, from his time as a child leading the Jackson 5, to becoming a global superstar and one of the most famous people in the world. So one biopic may not be enough to tell his story. Reports say Michael, directed by…
A viral video shows a Colorado landlord storming her tenant’s home and launching a heated confrontation before collapsing on the floor and loudly claiming the tenant attacked her. Vontese Wines posted a video on Facebook showing part of the confrontation with her landlord Lisa Anderson. The two are seen on video arguing, but when Wines…
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., arrives for a Congressional Progressive Caucus news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 16, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Lee tells theGrio she is concerned about Black and brown communities being used as “pawns in the Trump administration’s playbook.” After serving nearly 30 years in the…
(Photos via Getty Images and Freepik/Design by theGrio). A recent report shows signs that foot traffic has decreased at Target and increased at Costco, particularly among Black and non-Black Hispanic households. Chi Walker used to be a faithful Target customer. The professional chef, who is based in Detroit, was such a regular at the store…
