Opinion: theGrio entertainment writer Matthew Allen offers his response to Lennix’s Variety column stating Smith should give back his Oscar to restore its integrity. On Sunday, actor Harry Lennix wrote a guest column in Variety titled, “Will Smith Must Return His Oscar To Restore The Award’s Honor.” In the piece, Lennix, a Black actor himself,…
Monday was a somber day for Minnesota activist Toshira Garraway as she reflected on the police killing of Daunte Wright. It was the one-year anniversary of Wright’s death, and she had just gotten home from a candle vigil in his honor when her night erupted in chaos. Garraway received a call from her frantic 16-year-old…
The will be at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore district, a neighborhood once thriving with African American night clubs and shops until government redevelopment forced out residents. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force meets in person Wednesday, the first time members have gathered face-to-face since their inaugural meeting nearly…
The council members said they’ve secured $14 million from the Bezos Earth Fund for a program called Engage, Enlighten and Empower to hold the Biden administration accountable for carrying out its initiative. Key members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council said Tuesday that the Biden administration hadn’t done enough to make good on…
Source: Twitter / Twitter Miya Ponsetto, who has been infamously dubbed “SoHo Karen,” pled guilty in connection to the hate crime assault she committed against 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. back in December 2020. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg served Ponsetto a light plea deal, which will require her to “live a law-abiding life” for…
Investigators stressed they weren’t sure if Frank R. James was responsible for the shooting. But authorities were examining social media videos in which he decried the United States as a racist place awash in violence. NEW YORK (AP) — Police continued to hunt Wednesday for the gunman who opened fire on a subway train in Brooklyn, an…
50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck were once part of the rap collective G-Unit, whose music dominated the hip-hop charts. However, childish feuds and lousy business dealings quickly led to the end of one of the hottest hip-hop groups. While Fif found success in television with several shows on Starz networks, the other two…
The government says bad air has an unhealthy, deadly impact. Nothing of substance is being done. Bad air kills Black people. That’s what the federal government says. Black people, far more than their white counterparts, live not only in poorer and noisier conditions, but with higher levels of pollution, leading to a host of maladies…
Investigators weren’t sure whether the man, identified as Frank R. James, 62, had any link to the subway attack. NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman in a gas mask and construction vest set off smoke grenades and fired a barrage of bullets in a rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn, wounding at least 10 people Tuesday,…
The Michigan Attorney General’s office has charged a off-duty DeWitt police officer with felony charges connected to a 2021 incident with a Black teen, where he pulled a gun out on him twice without reasonable cause. The teen also has secured legal representation and filed his own federal civil lawsuit. Dashcam video of teen being…
