5 Questions with Mamoudou Athie Actor Mamoudou Athie stopped by theGrio to discuss his upcoming play “Good Bones,” how he chooses a particular project, and more. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream in his new play, “Good Bones.” Actor Mamoudou Athie, who will play Travis, stopped…
Rich Lowry, the conservative editor-in-chief of the National Review, sparked a social media uproar this week after allegedly saying the N-word while discussing baseless claims about Haitian migrants in Ohio during an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show.” Lowry has since denied using the racial slur, which came as he addressed false claims by the…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs participates in “The Four” panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) The music mogul “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals,” including physical violence, in order “to fulfill his sexual desires,…
(Courtesy of theGrio) TheGrio’s Gerren Keith Gaynor, Politico’s Eugene Daniels and NPR WHYY’s Tonya Mosley will co-moderate the panel. WHAT: The National Association of Black Journalists and Philadelphia’s WHYY will host an in-person conversation Tuesday with Vice President Kamala Harris at the WHYY studio. The studio audience will include NABJ members and journalism and communication…
Police in the Atlanta suburb of Union City are searching for an unidentified man accused of throwing bleach in the face of a stunned teenage employee of Burger King who was working the night shift on Jonesboro Road. Seventeen-year-old Andrea Alexander didn’t notice anything unusual when she greeted the customer at the drive-thru window just…
Danielle Hazel, left, speaks during a news conference accompanied by her attorney Gloria Allred, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Joe Frederick, AP) The pageants’ requirements deny and exclude mothers from an “important business and cultural opportunity,” stated attorney Gloria Allred. NEW YORK (AP) — A New York woman is challenging the…
Hollywood movie star Kevin Hart rarely regrets the decisions he’s made since reaching the top. However, there are a few recent moments in his career where he wishes he would have taken a different route. The comic has adamantly expressed regret about cheating on his wife, and he likely feels remorseful for using homophobic slurs,…
A right-wing journalist has come under fire for saying what sounded like the N-word while defending J.D.Vance’s defense of the racist propaganda he spread about Haitian migrants. Vance essentially admitted he fabricated the story about Haitian migrants abducting and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, and now he’s saying he didn’t say what people think…
(Left to right) Elaine DePrince and ballerina Michaela DePrince attend the Jockey “Show’Em What’s Underneath, Show’Em Your Jockey” Event in NYC at One World Observatory on April 26, 2017, in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Jockey) A spokesperson for Michaela DePrince’s family addressed the death of their mother via Facebook. Tragedy…
Cardi B attends the 4th Annual Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards at The Beverly Hilton on June 21, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Arnold Turner/Getty Images for Jason Lee/Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards) “This is my third baby and postpartum is a little different from my first two,” the rapper said, addressing her active postpartum…
