The county for will lease the land from the descendants for $413,000 a year, and the governing body has the option to purchase the land for up to $20 million. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to return ownership of prime California beachfront property to descendants of a…
The Latimore Tourist Home in Russellville, Arkansas, provided lodging for Blacks from the late 1930s through the 1970s. The Latimore Tourist Home in Russellville, Arkansas, was listed in the 1949 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book as one of the places that would provide overnight accommodations to Black Americans during the Jim Crow era….
Survivors of a mysterious incident in a South African tavern that left 21 minors dead said there was a strong and suffocating smell in the building the night of the tragedy. Authorities said children as young as 13 were among the dead that piled up in the Enyobeni Tavern in Eastern Cape province city of…
Shonrael Lanier, a descendant of former slave Renty Taylor, holds a sign at a press conference held at Harvard University to talk about the lawsuit that the family has filed against the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 20, 2019. | Source: Boston Globe / Getty Being a Black American comes with developing a clear…
Amanda Seales is clearing up the preconceived notion that she is an impossible force with whom to work. The outspoken and quick-witted actress has been working in the entertainment industry since the age of eight when she starred on Nickelodeon’s “My Brother and Me.” However, it wasn’t until she starred alongside Issa Rae and other…
Alexis McGill Johnson tells theGrio that the reproductive health care nonprofit will “fight in every state” to ensure women and pregnant people have access to services. The implications of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade are being felt across the country as abortion is now banned in at least seven states, with potentially…
Hochul beat back primary challenges Tuesday from New York City’s elected public advocate, Jumaane Williams, and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi Nine months after she stepped into the job of New York governor as a relative unknown, Democrat Kathy Hochul easily locked up her party’s nomination Tuesday, setting her on an expected glide path to win…
Tennis players long have dealt with online abuse, particularly from gamblers angry about a particular match’s outcome. WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This is not what one thinks of when pondering the supposedly genteel roots of tennis, and the purportedly proper atmosphere at dates-to-the-1800s Wimbledon, a country club sport being contested at a place officially called the All…
Nene Leakes remained unbothered about her boyfriend’s wife filing a lawsuit against her. The former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” spoke with Entertainment Tonight about the lawsuit and revealed that she had no feelings about it. Nene told the reporter, “I don’t feel anything.” She continued, “I feel like it’s their business and not mine. I…
There were moments where Williams played very much like someone whose strokes and will have carried her to 23 Grand Slam titles. WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams began — and ended — her comeback at Wimbledon after 364 days out of singles competition looking very much like someone who hadn’t competed in just that long. She missed…
