Justice Holder White to replace retiring Justice Rita Garman The Illinois Supreme Court has appointed its first Black woman justice to replace the retiring Justice Rita Garman. The court has appointed Justice Lisa Holder White, who currently sits on the 4th District Illinois Appellate Court, to fill Garman’s vacancy in July. Holder White, 54, called…
In a Dallas suburb last week, a whip-cracking 9-year-old white boy came to the front porch of one of his neighbors and banged on their door while demanding to confront a Black child in the home. A Ring camera video of the moment went viral after it was posted to social media. Ring camera captures…
OPINION: The racially motivated attack in Buffalo, N.Y., was not Trump’s fault. Fox News didn’t do it. It was America at its most ordinary. 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 is a sentence fragment embedded in my memory that historian Ron Chernow…
“We’ve seen four successive failures of the rains,” says Martin Griffiths, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs A top United Nations humanitarian official has raised concern about people going hungry in a remote part of northern Kenya, joining calls for the international community to commit more resources to address the wider region’s drought crisis. Martin…
Comedian Steve Harvey shared a picture with his wife on Instagram, and fans seemed confused by the “Family Feud” star’s attire. Harvey and his wife, Marjorie Harvey, usually receive attention for their impeccable fashion and style. However, the “Judge Steve Harvey” host, who has a line of pajamas with Midnight Velvet, was wearing what appeared…
A manifesto posted online and purportedly written by shooter Payton Gendron, outlined a racist ideology rooted in a belief that the United States should belong only to white people. The white 18-year-old who shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had researched the local demographics while looking for places with a high concentration…
Delaware State University announced plans to file a federal civil rights complaint against the deputies, whose traffic stop may have violated Fourth Amendment rights A sheriff in Georgia has gone on the record defending deputies against accusations of racial profiling after a Delaware State University sports team bus was stopped and searched last month, but…
IBM seeks to bring cybersecurity centers to 20 HBCUs nationwide Six historically Black universities in five Southern states will be getting the first IBM cybersecurity centers aimed at training underrepresented communities, the company said. The schools are Xavier University of Louisiana, that state’s Southern University System, North Carolina A&T, South Carolina State, Clark Atlanta and…
Parents of Payton Gendron, the accused gunman, are cooperating with authorities Federal agents interviewed the parents of the white 18-year-old accused of shooting and killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket and served multiple search warrants, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday. Federal authorities were still working to confirm the authenticity of a…
Nearly two years after the murder of George Floyd led to a summer of demonstrations and often heavy-handed police reaction in streets across the United States, a civilian oversight agency has recommended that 145 officers in the nation’s largest city should be disciplined by their higher-ups after inappropriately policing during the 2020 Black Lives Matter…
