The 72-page report also found that police arrested and used force against people of color at a much higher rate than whites. A new report is alleging that the Minneapolis Police Department violated civil rights law by using covert social media accounts to surveil Black people unrelated to policing. The 72-page disclosure, the result of…
A New Jersey man incapacitated by a brutal beating at the Essex County Correctional Facility has filed a lawsuit alleging the corrections officers put him in harm’s way and did not protect him. Jayshawn Boyd, 22, who is schizophrenic, was placed in a gang unit in September after missing a hearing for incidents with his…
OPINION: Black people marrying white people doesn’t erase white privilege or destroy systemic racism. But watching Newsmax does destroy brain cells. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Black Baby Jesus, help me now. I have to defend interracial relationships again? But this time…
Married actors Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict appeared in a video shared on Mowry’s Instagram page on April 26, and fans had jokes after zooming in on Hardrict’s face in the video. Mowry captioned the post, “Mr. Hardrict isn’t always on the gram, but when he shows up, he KILLS IT,” she wrote. “What…
The SportsCenter anchor has sued the network and its parent, Walt Disney Co., for what she calls “selective enforcement” of a rule. Sage Steele, an anchor for SportsCenter on ESPN, is suing her network and its parent company, Walt Disney Co., for what she calls “selective enforcement” of a rule established in 2017 forbidding employees…
After President Joe Biden granted clemency to 75 individuals convicted of low-level drug offenses, rapper Killer Mike says the nation’s top executive should go even further to rectify incarcerating people for crimes that are now legal. He suggested one way to do this is to “quadruple” the number of people he sets free and to…
Source: Robert Alexander / Getty U.S. Supreme Court justices this week expressed sympathy for a white high school football coach who was fired from his job for kneeling and praying on the field following games, drawing a stark contrast to the country’s collective reaction to Colin Kaepernick‘s controversial kneeling protest before NFL games. While not…
Prince Edward has been slammed for his response to calls for reparations during his leg of the royal family’s Caribbean tour. The Earl of Wessex carried on the tour started by Prince Charles last month. Like his nephew’s trip, Edward’s visits to Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Antigua and Barbuda were met…
After a two-year hiatus, music mogul and heralded Hip-Hop producer Pharrell Williams is bringing back his “Something in the Water” music festival, moving it from its original location in Virginia Beach and setting up shop in the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., on Juneteenth weekend, from June 17 to 19. The artist’s team made the…
People walk past the John Harvard statue at Harvard University’s main campus on December 19, 2000, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Source: Darren McCollester / Getty Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the country could begin an intriguing partnership with one of the most renowned universities in the world. Harvard University announced this week its…
