West Orange High School’s principal says he respects his students’ right to protest, but he won’t be flexible on dress codes. A group of activist students in West Orange, New Jersey, are reportedly planning a protest today over a ban on wearing durags on their campus. On Tuesday, Hayden Moore, the principal of West Orange…
Three Texas middle school paraprofessionals have been fired after a video emerged of them watching an older student beat up a special-needs young student. The aides stood around as spectators as the child, whose mental capacity is equivalent to a pre-K or kindergartener, was hit, pushed to the ground, and kicked repeatedly. Surveillance footage captures…
Tiffany Haddish‘s fans are confident that she and het ex Common will come together sometime soon after the comedian participated in yet another Instagram filter game. Haddish and Common first met on the set of “The Kitchen” in 2019, and began seeing each other romantically shortly afterward. In November 2021, the pair reportedly split after…
LA County District Attorney George Gascón said the killing of Clarence Avant’s wife was “a tragic loss felt by our entire community.” The man accused of murdering the beloved wife of legendary music executive Clarence Avant late last year has pleaded guilty to the crime. Aariel Maynor, 30, has pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder,…
OPINION: Conservatives always want qualified Black candidates to produce their papers and prove their worth and legitimacy. They really need to stop playing. There is a saying that when you’re Black, you must work twice as hard to get half the credit. This is most certainly true, and the predictable yet outrageous white conservative attacks…
Source: John Coletti / Getty Isn’t it curious how before white conservatives discovered critical race theory in 2020, legislators were not commonly proposing and signing bills into law that limited discussions on race in the classroom? It’s almost as if this relatively obscure academic study that has existed in academia since 1989 suddenly became a…
EXCLUSIVE: The new Spectrum Original series is coming this April, and theGrio has a first look at the scandal-filled drama Long Slow Exhale, a brand new Spectrum Original, is set to premiere in April, and theGrio has an exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming drama, which contains basketball, scandal and more. From Paramount Television Studios…
Kandi Burruss disclosed during a recent interview that she and Marlo Hampton had a temporary feud while shooting season 14 of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Burruss, who was promoting her upcoming spin-off show “Kandi and The Gang,” explained to “Daily Blast Live” co-host Erica Cobb on March 2 that the beef between her and…
An October meeting between Lightfoot, George Smyrniotis and several other city lawyers reportedly led to insults. A heated meeting over a statue of Christopher Columbus set the stage for a defamation lawsuit against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot by a former city attorney. WGN 9 is reporting that Lightfoot berated a group of lawyers when they met…
Hip-hop influencer and co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records Damon Dash appeared on “Club Shay Shay,” Shannon Sharpe’s podcast, and talked about the dissolution of his relationship with Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. On the show, he said that he is embarrassed at the fact the two have legal woes that are being handled in…
