Opera in the Rock’s season begins in September with a “Masked Gala,” featuring acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. Every performance this season by the Opera in the Rock company in Little Rock, Arkansas, will feature either a Black composer, a Black cast, a Black featured cast — or all of the above. Arkansas Online reports that…
The emails are printed out and delivered sporadically in bunches to Griner by her lawyer after they are vetted by Russian officials. Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. She can’t call them, either. But she can write. In one small bit of normalcy, Griner has been able to receive emails and letters from…
Nene Leakes is being sued by the wife of her boyfriend, Nyonisela Sioh, for allegedly stealing her man. TMZ obtained a copy of Malomine Tehmeh-Sioh‘s lawsuit, which claims the former reality star from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” began sleeping with Sioh while he was still married to her. Leakes began dating the Liberian businessman…
Protests erupted after video emerged of the Black man’s encounter with authorities. Protests have erupted in Brazil after video emerged of a Black man who later died being held inside the trunk of a police vehicle filled with tear gas. A CBS News report referenced a one-minute video on Twitter that shows police throwing a…
Multi-hyphenate Hollywood star Nick Cannon is getting candid about his financial history. During a recent interview, the daytime television talk show host reflected on how Academy Award-winning actor Will Smith impacted his career and revealed that he once wasted his first massive check given by the “King Richard” star earlier on in his career. While…
A Minnesota teenager and woman have filed separate lawsuits against Derek Chauvin, claiming that had he been punished for their violent arrests five years ago, George Floyd may still be alive. According to the lawsuits filed in federal court Tuesday, Chauvin was a “serial predator” who used “dangerous restraints” on Black people. If the Minneapolis…
Source: Megan Varner / Getty So—we really need to talk about this Herschel Walker interview with Killer Mike. I’m just not sure what this sit-down on REVOLT TV’s Love & Respect With Killer Mike was all about outside of an opportunity for Walker to walk back his Trump-loving GOPlantation image. And I say that because,…
OPINION: First-year coach Ime Udoka has done an incredible job getting his team to the NBA Finals to face the Golden State Warriors. But his fiancé gives him instant credibility in these streets and makes it OK to root for a team that represents a city with a problematic racial history. Editor’s note: The following…
“Join your local Klavern today to preserve white Christian unity before multiculturalism destroys America for good,” the flyer reads. A flyer claiming that America’s biggest-known anti-Black domestic terrorist group is “alive and growing” was left at a predominantly Black church in DeSoto, Mississippi, according to The Memphis Commercial Appeal. The flyer was shared on Facebook by someone…
In an email memo sent to White House staff obtained by theGrio, the Biden administration provided a list of commitments it is making to support and retain a diverse workforce. The White House is pushing back against reports of a “mass exodus” among its Black staffers who have grown frustrated with working inside the Biden-Harris…
