In an interview with theGrio’s Jared Alexander, Jessica Betts described freedom as liberty. Singer Jessica Betts said freedom is having liberty, not conforming and dreaming big without limitations during a recent interview with theGrio’s Jared Alexander. “I feel like being free is just being able to break off them shackles and chains and just feel…
Just short of 600 unvaccinated non-Department of Education workers in New York City are receiving a letter with details about this new initiative. New York City is making a push to give city workers fired earlier this year for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine a chance to get their old jobs back — if they…
“Brandeis is where I learned to be a human being,” said Marta Kauffman, who graduated from the university’s African and African American Studies Department. Marta Kauffman, co-creator of the popular sitcoms Friends and Grace and Frankie, is supporting the African and African American Studies Department at her alma mater Brandeis University in a big way….
Prolific actor Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in nearly two hundred movies, and despite having more than a few critically acclaimed roles to tout, he has only been nominated for an Oscar once — and lost. In 1995 Jackson was nominated for best supporting actor for his performance alongside John Travolta in director Quentin Tarantino’s…
The family of an 84-year-old Chicago grandmother killed in a car accident caused by police traveling at a high rate of speed is frustrated and tired of waiting for accountability more than three years after she was killed. “Family, church and school, that was her life,” said Pastor Dwight Gunn of his deceased mother, Verona…
Ciara has fans creating a spectacle over the singer’s strong knees after uploading her take of the Umlando dance challenge. The trend, which became viral earlier this year, involves individuals gyrating their hips. In the Instagram clip shared on June 17, Ciara danced along while in what appeared to be a studio to an instrumental…
“I am afraid this is the deadliest attack against civilians we have seen in our lifetime,” Abdul-Seid Tahir, a resident of Gimbi county. Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 ethnic Amhara have been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region and are blaming a rebel group, which denies it. It…
An eBay merchant says the coins depicting a Haitian migrant being captured were “flying off the shelf” with one going for roughly $500 U.S. Customs and Border Protection is investigating a series of unofficial coins circulating eBay that feature a widely decried image of a Haitian migrant being mistreated at the U.S.-Mexico border by white…
A Brooklyn man lost his life after a horrible transit accident caused him to be struck by an oncoming New York subway train. Despite efforts by medical professionals, his injuries were too severe to save his life and he was eventually declared dead at a local hospital. Marcus Bryant (Family photo) On Wednesday, June 15,…
OPINION: Donna Brazile reflects on the life and career of Hattie McDaniel and what we can all learn from her achievements this Juneteenth holiday. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. As we celebrate Juneteenth to mark the end of slavery in 1865, I’m…
