Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty For the vast majority of America’s existence, white men represented the only demographic with access to literally anything. They were the only people, generally, who could access the economic power necessary to amass generational wealth. They were our doctors, professors, judges, police officers and business owners because they were the…
Source: Mario Tama / Getty On Jan. 8, 16-year-old Black girl Tioni Theus was found shot dead alongside a freeway in South Los Angeles. According to authorities, her body was found at the 110 Freeway on the Manchester Avenue onramp near South Figueroa Street and her family hadn’t seen her since the day before. Theus,…
Black Americans are estimated to have more than a trillion dollars in buying power in coming years, marking the highest amount of spendable cash they have ever wielded in U.S. history. Still, that money won’t necessarily translate into an opportunity to build wealth, experts told Finurah, adding that building wealth isn’t solely about having dollars…
Source: Twitter At the end of the day, politicians are public servants. But, of course, it’s hard to serve the public as an elected official without the proper understanding of the job at the center of the political campaign for which you’re running. That truth was personified and then some on Thursday when Herschel Walker,…
OPINION: The third edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Whose Heritage?’ project—which tracks the removal of Confederate memorials around the country—is set for release during Black History Month. The 2015 massacre of nine Black Americans during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., was sadly reminiscent of the 1963 white…
EXCLUSIVE: Sources described the nomination process to theGrio as more of a vetting than a search for candidates. So far, the National Bar Association has recommended only two potential nominees. Black organizations, members of Congress and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are said to be involved in the White House’s historic Black woman Supreme…
Actress Tia Mowry had fans choosing their favorite outfits for her after she posted an Instagram video on Wednesday, Jan. 26, that shows her posing in different fashions from her closet. Mowry posted a caption with her video noting that the weekend was coming and she was using fashion to bring out the flirty girl…
The agency will conduct unannounced inspections of chemical plants, refineries and other industrial sites suspected of polluting air and water and causing health problems to nearby residents The Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of enforcement actions Wednesday to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems afflicting minority communities in three Gulf Coast…
A high school in Southern California is under the spotlight after a video of a varsity basketball game went viral and a student can be heard in the background hurling racial slurs at a Black player on the opposing team. In the clip, an unidentified kid called the African-American teen a “monkey” and asking “where…
Sanders, 19, is the first HBCU student-athlete to join the sports drink company’s name-image-likeness deal roster. In what is being described as a historic deal, Jackson State University quarterback Shedeur Sanders has announced a lucrative name-image-likeness agreement with Gatorade. Sanders — the son of NFL icon and current Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders —…
