Fox made her remarks as a guest co-host on The Wendy Williams show during the “Hot Topics” segment. Actress Vivica A. Fox said Jada Pinkett Smith took “no accountability” in the short clip released this week from her Red Table Talk series, when for the first time, she addressed the moment when husband, Will Smith,…
Bobby Brown still believes his marriage to Whitney Houston could have been salvaged if not for the throes of drug addiction. In his multipart documentary, Brown discloses that his first time witnessing Houston do drugs was on their wedding day in 1992. Singer Whitney Houston (R) and her husband singer Bobby Brown (L) arrive at…
I didn’t think I could quit my job to become an entrepreneur—until I met a life coach who’d done her own career makeover. October 1, 2021, was the last day of my longtime TV news career, but putting that date on a calendar and sticking to it was no easy feat. I knew I wanted to…
A Black man who grew up in segregated schools will now lead a school board in a Southern state. Voters elected Roger Moss as the new president of the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education on May 24. He is the first Black person ever to hold the position in Georgia’s oldest city. Roger Moss is…
Tiffany Haddish‘s pregnancy joke to “Good Times” star John Amos may have put the comedian in hot water, at least from the standpoint of fans who viewed the actor’s reaction. Haddish and Amos worked together last year for her single “Come and Get Ya Baby Daddy,” featuring Trina. On June 2, in the resurfaced clip shared on the social media blog…
Vivica A. Fox was overcome by emotions recently while sharing her thoughts on Jada Pinkett Smith’s comments regarding her husband, Will Smith. During the 94th-annual Academy Awards, the latter walked onstage while Chris Rock was presenting and slapped the veteran comedian after he made a joke about his wife’s shaved head. During the Thursday, June…
René Quiñonez, owner of Movement Ink, says the masks were for protestors participating in George Floyd demonstrations. The Oakland, California printer who created Black Lives Matter face masks that were seized by the U.S. Postal service has filed suit against the agency for rights violations, damaging his reputation and causing him business losses, among other…
OPINION: The campaign ad delivers an evocative indictment of Booker’s political opponent while simultaneously reducing Black trauma to something of a political tagline. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I’m genuinely conflicted, y’all. Yes, Charles Booker’s latest ad is powerful and effective, and…
Source: John Normile / Getty So, last month, we reported that a 911 dispatcher who got a call reporting the horrific and racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, was set to be fired because she was accused of being rude to the caller, who was ducked down behind a customer service desk and whispering,…
A Louisiana man was falsely accused of using crack cocaine and violently arrested by police, a lawsuit obtained by Atlanta Black Star alleges. Alexander Clark, 67, a Black man, said he had stopped for gas in Livingston Parish when he was pulled over by law enforcement officers in May 2021. He had just finished sheetrocking…
