Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Now-former NBC Sports reporter Michele Tafoya has recently left the world of Sunday Night Football with big plans to enter the political arena. According to the New York Post, she’s “co-chairing the Minnesota gubernatorial campaign of Republican candidate Kendall Qualls.” In an interview with Fox News host and sexy M&M…
Tracee Ellis Ross turned to Instagram to share an old throwback photograph from her former television show “Girlfriends,” and some fans now want a reunion or a reboot. “Girlfriends” was a television sitcom about the lives and loves of four Black women created by Mara Brock Akil. The show about four friends was a fan…
At the height of the pandemic, amid coronavirus fears and a racial reckoning dominating the news in the summer of 2020, Orion Jean, now 11, posed a simple question: “How can kindness change a nation?” With encouragement from his teacher at the time, Jean entered a speech contest where he spoke about kindness, he not…
Katie Wright, mother of Daunte Wright, and Aubrey Wright, father of Daunte Wright, embrace after finding out the jury reached a verdict in the Kim Potter trial at the Hennepin County Government Center on December 23, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Daunte Wright‘s family had the opportunity to confront…
Joseph Igartua, allegedly angry with the Democratic mayor over parking citations, drove past her home over a dozen times and fired a gun nearby. A man has been charged with stalking Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and firing a weapon near her home, according to prosecutors. The Cook County state attorney’s office stated that Joseph Igartua…
Source: DOMINICK REUTER / Getty An East Cleveland police officer was caught on camera kicking a black man in the back while he was complying with the officer’s demands. According to Police Chief Scott Gardner, the officer has been placed on administrative leave but will stay on police payroll through a collective bargaining agreement. MORE:…
Apryl Jones has been the love interest of quite a few men in entertainment, and it would seem, outside of Lil Fizz and Omarion, who were in the same band, that none of the guys that fans know about are remotely similar. Neither is her new guy, Taye Diggs. The beautiful “Love & Hip Hop:…
Ne-Yo is in the news for comments he made while appearing on “The Cruz Show” on Real 92.3 in Los Angeles on Feb. 16. The R&B singer said he only blamed men halfway for misogyny and advised women they could end the practice by not allowing men to call them b***hes. He added that women encourage misogynistic behavior by…
OPINION: The 1997 film that ruined it for cousins named Faith also taught me a lesson I will never forget. I don’t feel like the movie Soul Food, the 1997 family dramedy starring Vivica Fox, Vanessa Williams, Nia Long, Mekhi Phifer and Michael Beach (among others), truly gets its due. You rarely hear people talking…
AUP EP#41 TRANSCRIPT Transcribed: Cameron Blackwell Completed: 2/18/22 Cortney Wills: [00:00:03] Hello and welcome to Acting Up the podcast that dives deep into the world of TV and film that highlights our people, our culture and our stories. I’m your host, Cortney Wills, Entertainment director at theGrio. And this week we’re diving in to Descendant….
