The Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg noted that a 2007 transportation expansion displaced Black residents. A group of Black politicians in Charlotte, North Carolina, wants the city to put in safeguards to protect African American residents they fear could be disproportionately affected by a proposed transportation project. The Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg said in a press…
The Oscar and Grammy Award-winning star promises to “shake things up a little bit” with her own daytime talk show on Fox Television Stations. Jennifer Hudson is set to “shake up” the daytime talk show space as Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution announced Wednesday that the singer is getting her own talk show. As reported…
“The children have to go to school and get called the N-word and are dealing with structural racism,” said a frustrated Trahern Crews. Crews is the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Minnesota, and he has received a slew of complaints of alleged racism happening within the state’s public schools targeting Black students. An area…
OPINION: His voluminous output following her death made it seem as though he was trying to work through his pain rather than allowing himself time to grieve. The third and final installment of jeen-yuhs gave us some amazing, revelatory moments and some mess. The subtext is “Coodie and Ye break up (for a period of…
The pioneer’s daughter, Angela Foster Dickerson, said her mother, for whom a building was recently named, died Wednesday. Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died Wednesday. She was 92. University officials announced her death in a statement. Her daughter, Angela Foster Dickerson, said her mother died Wednesday…
Lawyers for Roof, the convicted killer, want the justices to decide how to handle disagreements between defendants and their attorneys. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide how to handle disagreements over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys, an…
Singer-turned-reality star Kandi Burruss is in full swing promoting her new show on Bravo, “Kandi and The Gang,” the spinoff from her original “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” show. The trailer is all over social media, and the commercials promoting the debut of this series seem to be nonstop on the NBCUniversal network. At the…
EXCLUSIVE: The new ad, exclusively previewed by theGrio, is part of a $1 million campaign from Demand Justice. A coalition of Black women leaders appear in a new ad as part of a $1 million ad campaign urging the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown…
Source: Maskot / Getty Cheyney University is looking to create a pipeline for more diverse teachers in the Pennsylvania school system. According to Chalkbeat, Last week at a Board of Education Philadelphia school district officials talked about statistics that showed a 200% increase year over year in teacher resignations along with numerous other problems that…
In a court filing, the bipartisan committee headed by Rep. Bennie Thompson argued that its evidence shows that Trump violated multiple laws. Former President Donald Trump and his campaign staff engaged in criminal activity in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, the Jan. 6 Select Committee in the U.S. House concluded in court documents…
