Like many people, Halle Berry understands the significant role a teacher can have in a child’s life. Growing up of mixed race with a white mother, Berry found a mentor in her fifth grade teacher, Yvonne Sims. As Berry matriculated through school and then into adulthood, Sims has been by her side every step of…
The award has previously gone to Shonda Rhimes, Steven Spielberg, and other major players in the television entertainment industry. Industry titan Ava DuVernay is set to receive a major honor at this year’s International Emmy Awards. The International Emmy Founders Award is given to recipients who display “excellence” in television entertainment across all fields, according…
A former Wauwatosa Police Department officer will not face charges for fatally shooting a man in 2016 while he was sleeping in his car. This counts as the third time the officer has been cleared of a fatal shooting in his short career. The family of the deceased disagrees with the prosecution’s decision, saying the…
The multi-hyphenate star appears on the latest episode of Facebook Watch’s Emmy Award winning series and opens up about her career in an exclusive clip On the latest episode of Red Table Talk, Queen Latifah opens up about her career, her journey with her weight and more, and theGrio has an exclusive clip from the…
Woods, 46, said he is giving his body “more time to get stronger” ahead of two tournaments next month. Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he will not play in next week’s U.S. Open, scheduled for June 16-19 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, ESPN reports. Woods, 46, said he is giving his body more…
OPINION: For Black Music Month, theGrio is featuring a weekly series in which our writers name the songs they believe best represent the Black experience. Matthew Allen offers his list, leaning into more abstract examples of Blackness in connection to regions and generations. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed…
A federal judge ruled the previous voting district map with one majority Black district violated the Voting Rights Act. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday called a special legislative session to redraw Louisiana’s congressional boundary lines after a map adopted by the Republican-dominated Legislature was blocked by a federal judge…
Clayton has been working for racial harmony since the civil rights movement began, and refuses to accept mass killings as routine. ATLANTA (AP) — A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped sustain the civil rights movement in the 1960s says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes seeking to terrorize…
Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty From breaking Billboard charts to starring in films like “Coach Carter” and “Resident Evil: Extinction,” Grammy award-winning singer Ashanti has seemingly done it all. Now, the 41-year-old New York native is expanding her artistic repertoire into a new creative territory that might come as a surprise to fans. In late…
The son of a victim who died in the Buffalo, N.Y. massacre challenged Congress Tuesday to act against the “cancer of white supremacy” and the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of Ruth Whitfield, an 86-year-old woman killed when a gunman opened fire in a racist attack on Black shoppers in Buffalo,…
