Colt Gray, Apalachee High School shooting suspect. | Source: Barrow County Sheriff’s Office In what is likely the latest evidence of a glaring lack of diversity in the media industry, at least two news outlets misidentified the suspect in Wednesday’s deadly mass shooting in Georgia as a Black student who was shot dead instead of…
Chrissy Teigen is sick of her husband John Legend and his social media shenanigans. The “Ordinary People” singer participated in a new social media trend with one of their four kids, where users act out a particular moment — which is also written out in a description on the video — before turning to look…
A social video showing a mother instructing her adopted child from Africa to put a bag of rice on her head because it’s “in her blood” drew backlash over the mother’s cultural education methods. The video was posted on Instagram and YouTube Shorts by Kaylee Wilson. In it, Wilson directs her young adopted daughter to…
Source: Ralf-Finn Hestoft / Getty On the morning of September 4, a 14-year-old kid identified as Colt Gray allegedly walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, and gunned down two students and two teachers. We’ve seen this before. We see it numerous times annually in America, in fact. We saw it in Nashville, Tennessee,…
Attorney Ernest Morial, right, speaks on the telephone as his wife, Sybil, looks on after he won an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, in New Orleans, Nov. 5, 1967. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell) Sybil Haydel Morial, who was a New Orleans power player in her own right, was…
NBA superstar Stephen “Steph” Curry was in New York City for a press run for the release of his book and his annual Underrated Gold Curry Cup tournament for underprivileged junior golfers. While hitting the streets of Manhattan, the basketball icon had a run-in with some overzealous autograph seekers. New York-based photojournalist Mickey Blank captured the…
“Their decision moved the nation backward,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told theGrio of the striking down of race-based admissions. The White House condemned the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling on affirmative action following recent data that shows enrollment for Black students saw declines on several college campuses. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Washington…
Source: EyeEm Mobile GmbH / Getty Gun violence is a critical public health crisis in the U.S., a point made painfully clear yesterday in Georgia yesterday morning, and over Labor Day weekend in Chicago. And despite the Biden Administration’s passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), which became law in 2022, and Vice President…
Rebecca Cheptegei, competes at the Discovery 10km road race in Kapchorwa, Uganda, Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo, File) Marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei had been hospitalized with burns over 80% of her body from an attack by her partner before she died. She was 33. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at…
A white pastor known for his divisive stance on cultural issues fueled racial tensions in a recent livestream by admitting he once chose a white doctor over a Black one because he felt Black doctors are less qualified, saying they “didn’t have to prove as much merit” in medical school. Joel Webbon, a self-proclaimed Christian…
