Lee becomes only the 36th director to receive this honor in the 86-year-history of the DGA. The Directors Guild of America (DGA) have announced that Spike Lee will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2022 DGA Awards. The DGA’s President Lesli Linka Glatter stated on Wednesday that the Brooklyn-born filmmaker will receive…
Affordable housing advocates score a rare win against gentrification in one of Washington, D.C.’s longstanding predominantly Black neighborhoods. A settlement was reached on Jan. 7 in a D.C. Superior Court case that was ten years in the making, sparing Congress Heights Apartments, an affordable housing property on the city’s southeast side. Gentrification has had a…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is seen in the U.S. Capitol before a procedural vote in the Senate on voting rights legislation on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. | Source: Tom Williams / Getty When people get old, they often lose their filter and start saying the quiet part out loud. For aging white people,…
Weems, an ex-NBA small forward who now plays for China’s Guangdong Southern Tigers, was targeted last week. Sonny Weems, a Black former NBA small forward/shooting guard who now plays in China for the Guangdong Southern Tigers, has been the subject of recent racial taunts. In the video now circulating on social media, Chinese basketball fans…
The lodge’s featured events will feature appearances from Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown, Keke Palmer, and more The 5th Annual MACRO Lodge is moving forward at Sundance Film Festival with three days of programming set to champion diversity, inclusion, and people of color. MACRO founder & CEO Charles D. King, the producer behind films such as Judas…
Tammy Rivera‘s daughter Charlie Rivera uploaded a throwback compilation video of her mother on Tuesday, Jan. 18, in honor of a TikTok trend called “Y’all Were Raised by Karens, I Was Raised By.” The purpose of the challenge, created in 2020, is to showcase the TikTok user’s parents. The clip would start with a short…
Bruno Mars and Anderson.Paak will play 13 shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM between February and April. Fans have been craving for Silk Sonic to take their show on the road, and now they are getting their wish — kind of. The Supergroup duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak will kick off a…
Mai held back one detail about the baby born earlier this month — Monaco Mai Jenkin’s gender will be revealed at a later date. The Real co-host Jeannie Mai has announced the name of her first child with husband Jeezy. She shared the baby’s name during a nursery tour posted early today on her YouTube…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said her office received information “indicating a reasonable probability” of possible criminal disruptions.” The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election by former President Donald Trump and others has asked for a special grand jury to aid the investigation. Fulton County District Attorney Fani…
Hickmon was elected president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., in November 2021 Cheryl A. Hickmon, president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, died Thursday morning after battling a recent illness, according to an email obtained by theGrio. Hickmon was devoted to the sorority, pledging South Carolina’s Alpha Xi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta in…
