(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Equal Pay Day arrives at a time when the gender pay gap continues to widen, and Black women remain among the lowest paid. As we commemorate another Equal Pay Day today, amid Women’s History Month, experts and advocates alike are reckoning with the fact that the gender pay gap continues to…
Howard’s new hip hop studies course will explore the music, business, marketing, and cultural impact of Cardi B’s “Am I The Drama” rollout (Photos: Getty Images) Howard’s new hip hop studies course will explore the music, business, marketing, and cultural impact of Cardi B’s “Am I The Drama?” rollout. Cardi B is, in fact, the…
Three Black politicians running for elected positions in Indiana are speaking up against racist rhetoric they’ve endured while campaigning. Demetrice Hicks, a Democratic candidate for state Senate; Monica White, running for Boone County clerk; and Claudette Peterson, campaigning for Pike Township trustee, have all been called the N-word by community members they hope to represent….
(Na’Ziyah Harris. Photo credit: CBS News) Jarvis Butts was sentenced to 35-60 years in prison two weeks ago for the murder of Na’Ziyah and the sexual assault of five other girls. Jarvis Butts, the 43-year-old man who was convicted of killing 13-year-old Na’Ziyah Harris and sexually assaulting multiple other girls, has died in prison. Authorities…
(Photo: Getty Images) Reparative justice leaders who spoke to theGrio make sense of the Trump administraition’s “bizarre” defense of its reparations vote. While the successful passage of a United Nations resolution that declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade the “gravest crime against humanity” is being praised by Africans, people of African descent, and countries around the…
Source: Bill Clark / Getty For possibly the first time since President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda began, the Trump administration is being made to explain why immigration agents are showing up at people’s immigration court hearings to make arrests. As usual, the explanation is that the administration is comprised of a gaggle of xenophobic…
A Zoom court hearing is going viral after a Detroit woman joined the call while she was driving, then lied to the judge about it. Local reports state that Kimberly Carroll was late to her virtual court call with Judge Michael K. McNally regarding an outstanding debt that a debt collection company was seeking to…
The Trump administration is taking another shot at New York Attorney General Letitia James with two new criminal referrals after three previous attempts to prosecute her failed. Last year, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte tried to have James charged with mortgage fraud over allegations concerning two properties she owned in Brooklyn, New York,…
The Xscape member said she was proud to see her sons stand up for her, but she didn’t take 50’s jabs that seriously. Tiny Harris seems to have shrugged off any disrespect that 50 Cent meant toward her when he posted unflattering photos of her on his Instagram. “I felt like it was uncalled for,…
Christine Hamilton, Vic St. John. (Photo credit: Fox News) After “Love Is Blind” season 10 stars Vic St. John and Christine Hamilton appeared on Fox News Digital, fans are reeling. After stealing the hearts and sympathies of “Love Is Blind” fans, even as Netflix appeared to pull away from their storyline, season 10 stars Vic…
