From Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to Oprah and Gayle, social media has made a trend of turning Black women’s bonds into punchlines. (Photos: Getty Images) From Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to Oprah and Gayle, social media has made a trend of turning Black women’s bonds into punchlines. Friendship is one of the most…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 06: Laverne Cox attends the world premiere of Apple’s “Outcome” at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on April 06, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)Photo by: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images The actress revealed that she and her twin brother were left in an orphanage for…
Shocking news emerged last week after Sugar Ray Leonard’s youngest son, Daniel Ray Leonard, was arrested on his father’s property. Daniel was taken into custody in Los Angeles on May 20 after Sugar Ray’s security reported him for trespassing. It was soon revealed that Sugar Ray had filed a restraining order not long before the…
The Florida deputy who went viral for accusing a woman of holding a phone in her right hand while driving – only for her to reveal that her right arm has no hand – has issued more than 800 traffic citations since Jan. 1, averaging about 160 citations per month, well above what is typical…
American writer and author Alex Haley (1921 – 1992), UK, 12th April 1977. (Photo by Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Hilaria McCarthy / Getty Images The Knox County school district first deemed “Roots” to be in violation of the state’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act. The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban…
Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black…
(Photo: Getty Images/Adobe Stock) “Higher mortgage rates and rising inflation are a one-two punch for Black households,” Cantrell Dumas of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, told theGrio. As Black households disproportionately feel the financial squeeze of President Donald Trump‘s economy, two economic measurements released this week indicate things aren’t getting better anytime…
Donald Trump may need to orchestrate a “happy wife, happy life” photo opportunity with Melania Trump. Three wives, two divorces, and a few bedroom scandals are all it took for Trump’s flip-flopping supporter Megyn Kelly to incite a brutal discussion about his troubled love life. Megyn Kelly has officially turned her back on Trump…
Pam Bondi spent years as one of Donald Trump’s most loyal defenders, operating at the center of some of the administration’s most controversial legal battles. Now the former attorney general is facing a threat that could strike at the foundation of her own career. More than 120 attorneys, law professors and former judges are asking…
Source: Michael Tullberg / Getty Rapper Young MC and Grammy-nominated singer Morris Day have officially withdrawn from President Trump’s Freedom 250 Festival in Washington, D.C., an event tied to the Great American State Fair celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary from June 25 through July 10, 2026. Meanwhile, C+ C Music Factory frontman Freedom Williams is…
