Rihanna appeared to have earned brownie points for being a supportive girlfriend to her longtime partner A$AP Rocky. The singer made her first public appearance after giving birth to the pair’s child in May by recently attending his performance at the Wireless Festival. Wireless Festival, which began on July 1 and will end on July 10, is an annual…

St. Petersburg police said they are investigating the Pan-African flag fire and are working to identify a suspect A person using a flamethrower set fire Saturday to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole outside the headquarters of the Uhuru Movement, a Black international socialist group based in Florida. Security video released by the group…

Voters cast their ballots in Harris County. Source: MARK FELIX / Getty Four years after a decades-old consent decree preventing the Republican National Committee from engaging in a series of activities involving so-called “ballot security,” Republican operatives continue finding new ways to intimidate and scare Black voters. According to the Houston Chronicle, a Republican group…

Nate Looney is crafting guidelines on how to be more welcoming of Jews of color Nate Looney is a Black man who grew up in Los Angeles, a descendant of enslaved people from generations ago. He’s also an observant, kippah-wearing Jew. But he doesn’t always feel welcome in Jewish spaces — his skin color sometimes…

Humanitarian workers on the ground tell theGrio that the treatment of African migrants at the border is part of a pattern of racist conduct that extends beyond the June 24 tragedy. The deaths of at least two dozen African migrants at the Moroccan-Spanish border has rocked the international community, giving way to protests denouncing global…

Why would anyone ruin a perfectly good potato salad—or cookout—with this stuff? “Who bring the salad?” When someone in my family asked that question, it meant one thing: “Who brought the potato salad?” No macaroni salad. No pasta salad. No green salad. (I didn’t know green salad was even a thing until I was about…

Pope Francis says Congo and South Sudan owe it to the next generation Pope Francis urged the people and leaders of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday to “turn a page” and forge new paths of reconciliation, peace and development. Francis issued a video message on the day he had planned to begin a weeklong…

A Michigan man will serve prison time for allegedly shooting a 6-year-old child for hanging on his lawn with his siblings. The judge was outraged at his actions saying, “Adults should be the ones protecting children not shooting at them.” Ryan Le-Nguyen came out of his home as Coby retrieved his bike, and threatened the…

Google responds to calls for more stringent privacy controls after the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies….