TheGrio breaks down how to celebrate day 4 of the Kwanzaa holiday Dec. 29 marks day four of Kwanzaa, and on the fourth day, we light the second red candle to the left of the black candle. This candle represents the principle of Ujamaa or cooperative economics. Pledge: On this day, we pledge to build…
Kenan Thompson is teaming up with John Ryan Jr. and founding a new production company called Artists for Artists. Their first official project will be to work alongside Mike Tyson. Deadline reports that the first project is “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth Part 2,” starring Mike Tyson, Kiki Tyson and Azum Spicer. It was written by…
Biden’s team is concerned that releasing all the Trump documents the committee seeks could compromise national security. WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has agreed to defer its attempt to get hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration, holding off at the request of the…
OPINION: The archbishop was a giant in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa but he also spoke out for women’s rights and the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, the Palestinian people and the environment. In a season when we have lost so many Black leaders, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has left us in body…
Source: Joe Scarnici / Getty Retired American gymnast Gabrielle “Gabby” Douglas wowed fans in the mid-2000s with her dynamic floor routines and her gold-medal winning performances at the Olympic Games, but it appeared as though her success was short-lived. After winning the 2012 all-around championship and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the athlete stopped training….
Rosa Parks is one of the most recognizable civil rights movement figures after she bravely refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man in 1955. Recently a white woman channeled her inner-Ms. Parks when she refused to sit down on a Delta Air Lines flight. Former actress…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Hannah-Jones said she’s clear-eyed about forcing a reckoning around America’s self-image. NEW YORK (AP) — Following a year of professional milestones born of her work on America’s history of slavery, Pulitzer Prize-winning Black journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she is clear-eyed about her mission to force a reckoning around the nation’s self-image. The…
A girl stops and checks the flowers at the Sol Tribe tattoo shop on Broadway in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, December 28, 2021. | Source: Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images / Getty The prime suspect in a deadly mass shooting in and around Denver has been widely described on social media as…
Now that it’s been a few years since she initially opened up about her struggles with alopecia, Jada Pinkett Smith has been feeling more comfortable with talking about what else she’s had to endure with the hair loss condition. She posted a video on Instagram on Dec. 28, seemingly in good spirits, and laughing about…
Source: Boston Globe / Getty The former minority leader of the Rhode Island legislature seems desperate for attention on social media. Legislator Karen, also known as Republican Rep. Patricia Morgan, claims her “Black friend” suddenly acts hostile and unpleasant. So instead of talking to the alleged Black friend, Morgan decides she should tweet about it…
