The exhibit, ‘And the Beat Don’t Stop: 50 Years of Hip-Hop,’ is free to the public at Little Rock’s Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. An Arkansas cultural center is celebrating the upcoming 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a special pop-up exhibition featuring artwork and artifacts commemorating the culture. Little Rock’s Mosaic Templars Cultural Center is hosting…
A former Oklahoma jail supervisor is now facing prison time after a federal jury convicted him of excessive force and deliberately putting two inmates in harm’s way. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Matthew Ware, 53, deprived three pretrial detainees at the Kay County Detention Center in rural Newkirk, Oklahoma, near the Kansas border…
Saying farewell to “Black-ish” was bittersweet for Anthony Anderson. For eight seasons Anderson and cast tackled social issues and everyday experiences as the fictional Johnson family living in a Southern California suburb. It was a show — highlighting a successful Black family —that he and co-creator, Kenya Barris, said was missing from the landscape of…
A new Lena Waithe film, a Rosa Parks documentary, and more are set to make splashes at the popular film festival The Tribeca Film Festival announced its official lineup on Tuesday and by the looks of it, the festival (set to be held in June) will be filled with plenty of must-see projects. The Tribeca…
“We never in eight seasons reached the limits of anybody’s abilities,” series showrunner Courtney Lily told theGrio Black-ish is coming to a close, and ahead of the series finale, theGrio is examining its stars and how the show helped re-establish, introduce and launch each cast member into superstardom while evolving into one of the most…
EXCLUSIVE: New maps drawn by Republicans in states from Georgia to Texas are deliberate tools to suppress Black and Brown voters, critics say. A political battle over Florida’s redrawn congressional map is bringing new attention to the issue of nationwide gerrymandering and what critics say is an attempt to suppress the power of Black and…
Source: SOPA Images / Getty Remember Maurice Symonette? No? The Black guy who used to stand behind trump at all his rallies holding the sign “BLACKS FOR TRUMP,” while dawning a T-shirt imprinted with the words, “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.” (Some folks said he was in a cult.) Yea, that guy… “Blacks for…
As one of the most accomplished athletes in the world, Serena Williams is now training her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., to be just as fierce on the tennis court. The 23-time Grand Slam winner is teaching her 4-year-old the basics of the sport she began playing professionally as a teen. On Tuesday, April 19,…
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas is months from reopening, with visible progress at St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre and Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black Baptist churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas is months from…
The Council of Chief State School Officers announced Tuesday that Russell is the organization’s National Teacher of the Year for 2022 It hardly seems a stretch to say Kurt Russell was born to be a history teacher. Raised on his mother’s stories about segregation and the civil rights movement in Alabama and influenced by teachers…
