(Adobe Stock Images) OPINION: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to provide freedom and protections for all Americans. Project 2025 wants to take us back. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Congressman Tim Burchette referred to Vice President…
Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally at the Georgia State Convocation Center on July 30, 2024 in Atlanta. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images) “I think only the Obama era, like ’07-’08 energy is the kind of energy that I have seen that looks like this,” Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye, executive director of the Georgia…
Chris Dunn Leaving Court As A Free Man Source: X/Max Diekneite / Max Diekneite Stories of the wrongfully convicted are bad enough when an innocent person ends up spending years, even decades in prison for a crime they did not commit. But when a court of law decides after years and even decades that…
A married Maryland man opened fire on his secret lover and her family members after she asked for child support, but a survivor lived to tell the truth. Keanan Turner had a wife, a daughter, and a job requiring government security clearance. All of it was about to come crashing down after the birth of…
A classic show almost made its way back to television. “The Facts of Life” actress Mindy Cohn claims plans for a reboot of the 1980s sitcom were halted because a “greedy” co-star backed out over money. Mindy Cohn played Natalie Green on “The Facts of Life” for nine seasons on NBC. The program also featured…
The sign is seen outside the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, and is now part of the complex of the National Civil Rights Museum as they prepare for the 50th anniversary of his assassination on April 1, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) OPINION: I was curious…
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and his Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson and Vice President Kamala Harris just before the investiture ceremony for Jackson on September 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images To emphasize the importance of an election, presidential candidates often predict that the next…
Former Nickelodeon star Kel Mitchell recently opened up about one of the most challenging periods of his life: the time surrounding his divorce from his first wife. The actor admitted that the internal pain and embarrassment from his failed marriage left him feeling “alienated” from his older children and even led him to contemplate suicide….
Actor McKinley Freeman attends the premiere of Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt” on Sept. 22, 2022, in Hollywood. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images) Actor McKinley Freeman stopped by theGrio to discuss Season 2 of Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt,” his character’s development, and more. If you haven’t seen Season 1 of Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt,” you’re missing out. Imagine…
Relatives of a Black woman who was fatally shot in early July met with Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna last week to demand answers after claiming the deputy at the scene rendered no aid as the victim lay dying. Raejonette Morgan, of South L.A., died July 2 after an apparent drive-by shooting, according to…
