A new study finds breakthrough COVID cases more likely to occur in pregnant people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus. As we hit the midpoint in Black Maternal Health Week, there are new findings on the spread of COVID that might deeply affect how pregnant people safeguard themselves against the virus. As reported last…
Predominantly Black church African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) is embroiled in two lawsuits that allege that the global denomination’s retirement fund was mishandled. The lawsuits claim the Nashville-based church squandered $90 million in retirement fund investments meant for thousands of pastors and other church retirees. CHARLESTON, USA – JUNE 26: Reverend John Richard Bryant speaks…
For years, Joie Chavis and Bow Wow‘s daughter Shai Moss has showcased time and time again her love for dancing on her social media page. The 10-year-old has participated in numerous TikTok challenges with her mother or friends. On April 12, Moss, who decided to take the solo route, took on the “I Like” TikTok…
Each episode of “Money Making Conversations” features a master class with an illustrious graduate of a historically Black college or university. The company founded by multiple Emmy Award- and NAACP Image Award-winning TV/film/radio producer Rushion McDonald, 3815 Media, Inc., is partnering with HBCUGO.TV to broadcast Money Making Conversations master classes on the streaming network. HBCUGO.TV…
The shooting was a searing reminder of the city’s battle with gun violence and the specter of terror-like attacks that hangs over New York City As the year began, New Yorkers shuddered at a subway crime straight out of urban nightmares — the death of a woman shoved onto the tracks by a disturbed stranger. The city’s…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was extending the order, which was set to expire on April 18 The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is extending the nationwide mask requirement for public transit for 15 days as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Viola Davis is getting honest about her experience in Hollywood. In her upcoming memoir, the award-winning actress revealed that the industry didn’t think she was pretty enough to portray the prominent criminal defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating on the hit ABC-TV series “How to Get Away with Murder.” It’s a role that earned…
New York City police investigate an incident on an Uptown 4 subway after an emergency brake was pulled near Union Square on April 12, 2022, in New York City. | Source: Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty There was an increased police presence in the New York City subway system following Tuesday’s shooting attack on a…
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and policy advocates tell theGrio that $50,000 debt forgiveness could close the racial wealth gap and relieve millions of Black borrowers. The debate over canceling student loan debt is getting louder as an impasse continues in Washington about how many thousands of dollars in student debt to cancel. But there are also…
Francine Laney, 31, was found unresponsive in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center infirmary, and life-saving measures that were taken failed. North Carolina man Terry Laney, an inmate with 19 years left on a second-degree murder/firearms sentence, has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Garry McFadden, who leads the Mecklenburg County Detention Center in Charlotte. The convict’s…
