Naviyd Ely Raymond really had no choice but to be fly. With his father being superstar R&B singer Usher and his mother being fashion stylist to the stars Tameka Foster Raymond, the young man had to have great style. The world got a chance to peep his swag at the AMIRI Autumn-Winter 2022 Runway Show in Los Angeles. …
EXCLUSIVE: In an internal department Black History Month message exclusively obtained by theGrio, Secretary Janet Yellen reaffirmed the commitment to ensure an inclusive currency. Contrary to the many speculations online, the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is on track to debut to the public in 2030. In an exclusively obtained internal Black History Month message sent…
Drake performs more than a dozen songs at pre-Super Bowl party filled with celebrities Among the stars, Drake still shined the brightest. In an all-white outfit, the multi-Grammy winner had many concertgoers jostling for position to watch him perform at the Super Bowl-week party dubbed “Homecoming Weekend” on Saturday night. He made a dramatic entrance,…
Ye continued his public spat with Kid Cudi one day after explaining why Cudi is absent from his forthcoming album Ye took to social media again on Sunday to question former protégé Kid Cudi‘s loyalty for the second time in one weekend. The lovelorn rapper formerly known as Kanye West continued to take issue with…
Colton Donner faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for the hate crime. A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime after threatening a Black minor with a knife for being in a “white town.” The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that Colton Donner, 27, pleaded guilty in federal court…
“Hopefully, we’ll see more minorities, especially in the USA, getting out and trying these winter sports,” Erin Jackson says Erin Jackson has never viewed herself as some sort of trailblazer. She just likes to skate really, really fast, whether it’s on wheels or blades. Yet the 29-year-old from balmy Ocala, Florida knew this moment was…
Hemingway police officer Cassandra Dollard posts $150,000 bond days after killing Robert Langley following high-speed chase The South Carolina police officer who authorities said fatally shot an unarmed Black man after the two of them engaged in a high-speed chase on Feb. 6 was released on bond on Saturday. Hemingway Police Department officer Cassandra Dollard,…
The Rev. Bryan Massingale is often at odds with official Catholic teaching Parishioners worshipping at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Harlem are greeted by a framed portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. — a Baptist minister named after a rebellious 16th century German priest excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The Rev. Bryan Massingale, who…
“I am so GRATEFUL to GOD for ALL of the many BLESSINGS he has bestowed upon my soul,” Da Brat says in Instagram post Shawntae “Da Brat” Harris and her pregnant girlfriend, Jesseca “BB Judy” Dupart, are officially engaged, again. The 47-year-old Chicago rapper, who helped put Jermaine Dupri‘s So So Def record label on the…
A federal judge will allow a grieving family to sue police officers, the state of Maryland, town of Greensboro, members of the Greensboro Police Department, the chief medical examiner, and others for the death of their 19-year-old relative in 2018. U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake declined to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the family of…
