OPINION: Mike Todd’s latest viral moment raises questions about pastoral accountability. Screenshot: YouTube This past Sunday, I received almost simultaneous notifications from all my group chats. Whatever had just happened, everybody knew about it. I opened the first chat and saw a link to a clip of Mike Todd, lead pastor of Transformation Church. My…
Fans still wonder why they didn’t honor Alex Trebek’s wishes and choose someone he wanted to follow him as host, including Coates. The search for the right person to replace Alex Trebek as host of the iconic game show Jeopardy! was indeed a wild one. After months of auditions by guest hosts and an online…
‘The Harder They Fall,’ ‘Insecure’ and H.E.R. lead in nominations this year The full list of NAACP Image Award nominees have officially been announced, with The Harder They Fall, Insecure and more nabbing major nominations. The 53rd NAACP Image Awards are set to air Saturday, Feb. 26 on BET. The two-hour live TV special will be…
Will Smith is showing his mother, Caroline Bright — and his fans — that he can move on the dance floor. The actor shared a video on Instagram of him dancing to someone singing Whitney Houston’s “I Want To Dance with Somebody.” It’s not clear where Smith’s exact location was in the video, but it…
Four inmates say the Washington County Detention Center and its doctor gave them ivermectin to treat COVID-19 without their consent. A group of prisoners in Arkansas is suing the Washington County Detention Center, its sheriff and its physician, alleging that they were given ivermectin to treat COVID-19 at the Fayetteville facility without their consent. The…
TheGrio’s new daily lifestyle writer releases her first memoir—and explores how shame and religious dogma might be holding us back. One of the first things Candice Marie Benbow and I discovered we had in common was a love of red lipstick. The year was 2017, and as I was making a major career pivot into…
2021 was Chicago’s deadliest year in 27 years with nearly 800 homicides. Some 80 percent of the victims were Black, and most were men, according to a Chicago Tribune report. Before the new year was a week old nearly a dozen people had already fallen victim to the onslaught of gun violence, including Laniyah Murphy,…
The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to access an order form run by the U.S. Postal Service. The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online. The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for…
OPINION: In an exclusive interview with theGrio, the athlete at the center of a national anthem protest explains why Colin Kaepernick’s publishing company was the perfect platform to tell his story. Before Stephen Curry took his first step, an undersized superstar dazzled professional basketball with his court vision, his ball-handling wizardry and—most of all—his ability…
Steve Harvey‘s birthday post on Jan. 17 gets derailed after fans zoom in on his birthday cake. The “Judge Steve” host, who shared a stream of photos in honor of his special day, rang in his 65th birthday by taking his family on a getaway trip to an undisclosed location while sailing on a yacht….
