EXCLUSIVE: Precious Dreams Foundation founder Nicole Russell tells theGrio the goal is to offer kids a sense of stability during an otherwise difficult time of the year. Nicole Russell and her family learned first hand the challenges many kids face in the foster care system. The story in-depth isn’t for Russell to share but it…
The city was rebuilt by Black men, women, children and who were often worked to death The City of Atlanta’s official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn’t show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with slavery’s successor: convict labor, working in horrific conditions to break granite at…
Voting rights organizer and former state legislator Stacey Abrams is gearing up for a busy 2022 full of heavy campaigning to become Georgia’s next governor. She says race will be part of the campaign conversation, but she plans to “leverage race as a competitive edge” against her Republican opponent. Abrams could become the country’s first…
After almost six years since the music legend’s passing, his estate’s value has almost been decided, as well as who will benefit from it. Court officials are edging closer to dividing up the estate of late global superstar Prince. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday that November tax filings show the Internal Revenue Service and…
The crime drama about 80s crack dealers in Los Angeles was the most-watched show on FX this year Franklin Saint, Teddy McDonald and the rest of the Snowfall crew have unfinished business to settle when new episodes of the hit FX series returns in February. Season 5 of the crime drama — set in Los…
Most of its wooden schooner remains intact, including the pen used to imprison African captives across the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner remains intact,…
Family and friends searched for Sherell Pringle, 40, tracking her cellphone and eventually discovering her body. The boyfriend of a Massachusetts woman who was found dead in Saugus on Tuesday was arrested Wednesday night on charges of larceny over $1,200, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice. Bruce Maiben, 44, has not been charged in…
A 27-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to six years in prison after punching a 14-year-old boy in his face. The Texas native assaulted the boy because he was Black. Charles Mitchell “Mitch” Patton pleaded guilty to injury to a child and was sentenced this month in connection with a random attack two years ago. …
Green was a motorist who Louisiana State police said died in a car crash, but video footage revealed he was beaten Mona Hardin has cherished her son’s cremated remains since the day they arrived at her doorstep in a FedEx box. She pulls them into bed with her when she’s too bereft to get up…
Transcribed by: Sydney Henriques-Payne Completion date: December 19, 2021 DCP EP 95: Are we Safe for the Holidays? : Dr. Tyce Nadrich and Dr. Nyasha Chikowore Shana Pinnock: [00:00:00] Hey, Dear Culture fam. Before we get all the way into the show, we just want to give you a heads up that we’ll be discussing…
