Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris answers questions during a moderated conversation with members of the National Association of Black Journalists hosted by WHYY September 17, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) “I am pleased that Vice President Harris acknowledged the important role truth plays in our quest for racial…
(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Amber Thurman could be alive today if not for Georgia’s strict anti-abortion laws. A Black mother died in Georgia after the state’s strict anti-abortion laws caused an almost 24-hour delay in her care. In August 2022, Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, traveled to a North Carolina clinic to have an abortion, People…
Source: Anadolu / Getty Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as White House press secretary under Donald Trump, decided that while introducing Trump at a town-hall event in Michigan on Tuesday, she would echo Sen. J.D. Vance’s “childless cat lady” rhetoric in attacking Vice President Kamala Harris. Despite the fact that Vance spent weeks…
(Photo by Fitz/Adobe Stock Images) OPINION: A recent experience of trying to save a seat in a room full of Black people stressed me out so thoroughly that I may never try again. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There…
(Left to right) Silver medalist Simone Biles of Team United States and bronze medalist Jordan Chiles of Team United States applaud fans after the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Floor Exercise Medal Ceremony on day 10 of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the most widely known and skilled basketball stars. He left the NBA as the all-time scorer and broke records that LeBron James has now surpassed. Therefore, many were concerned following a resurfaced video of Abdul-Jabbar and his slow movement during a fan interaction. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appearance at Fanatics Fest had…
Source: eggeeggjiew / Getty Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old Black mom from Georgia died on Aug. 19, 2022 after a rare and severe infection she’d developed went untreated for more than 17 hours by staff, including doctors. Health experts now say her death was ‘preventable.” On Aug. 13 of 2022 Thurman legally and under medical supervision,…
This is episode 6 in a seven-part series on the journey of choosing motherhood as a single Black woman. Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs in the world. So why are some women choosing to do it alone? A growing trend among some women is choosing to do motherhood by themselves, taking…
In a now-viral post on Reddit, a woman recounted why she called the police on her mother after she shaved off her biracial daughter’s curly hair. The post, written on the r/AITAH board by user OrneryExchange8001, has since been removed from the platform’s moderators but received more than 17,000 upvotes after it was posted on…
(Adobe Stock Images) The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis. GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure that was tightly wrapped in tarps the past four years, symbolizing…
