Source: Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty We all know the story of 14-year-old Emmett Till, the vicious white monsters who tortured and killed him, and the racist white woman who set it all in motion. We know the white men were acquitted of the murder and that they admitted to it later but died before either…
OPINION: Oronike Odeleye, co-founder of #MuteRKelly, reflects on the sentencing and troubled legacy of the disgraced R&B star. 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 girls deserve more. That sentence is so fraught with controversy that it will probably cause lots of people…
Educator and activist Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz thanks father, Malcolm X, for everything he has done for the Black community. In an interview with theGrio’s Natasha Alford, Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz shares her message to her father, Malcolm X, for Fathers’ Day. “I would want to say thank you, Daddy,” she said. “I am absolutely so proud…
Tia Mowry took to Instagram on June 27 to showcase the latest growing pain she’s encountered while raising her 4-year-old daughter, Cairo Hardrict. In the post, Hardrict is seen in what appears to be Mowry’s closet and trying on her hair extensions. Tia Mowry uploads a video of her daughter, Cairo Hardrict, trying on her…
By a 6-3 vote, the court’s conservative majority said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide…
Saudi Arai Lee, slain Friday, was from Carver Village, a largely Black neighborhood in Savannah whose residents say they are often targeted by police. Members of the clergy in Savannah, Georgia, are calling for a federal investigation into their city’s police department days after a Black man was shot and killed. Saudi Arai Lee, 31,…
Lori Harvey, newly single following her recent breakup with Michael B. Jordan, said in a new interview with Us Weekly that she aspires to have a love like her stepfather and mother, Steve and Marjorie Harvey. Steve and Marjorie began dating in 2005, and tied the knot two years later, on June 25, 2007. The pair also has a blended…
The interment of Patrice Lumumba in a specially-built mausoleum will be marked by a speech by the president of Congo. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday. The interment in a specially-built mausoleum will be marked by a…
A Connecticut man is now paralyzed after officers failed to place a safety belt across him when placing him in a patrol van handcuffed. His lawyers call for justice, likening his debilitating condition to Freddie Gray, a Baltimore native who sustained a fatal spinal injury while he was in the custody of local law enforcement….
Judge Paul Magnuson has not set sentencing dates for the former police officers responsible for George Floyd’s death. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to sentence one of the four former Minneapolis police officers convicted of civil rights violations in George Floyd’s killing to as many as 6 1/2 years in prison…
