Source: Bob Levey / Getty Black NFL head coach David Culley was fired from the Houston Texans last week. He is the second NFL Black head coach in a week to be fired from the job. Under Culley, the Texans went 4-13 but played the entire season without star quarterback Deshaun Watson, who did not…
Harrison is best known for his Obie Award-winning play ‘The Great MacDaddy’ as well as his theoretical work A true titan of Black theater, playwright, director, and scholar Paul Carter Harrison has passed away. He was 85. Harrison’s death was reported by The New York Times over the weekend, with Harrison’s daughter Fonteyn Harrison confirming…
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her new book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, with the Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida at a LA Times book club event on Nov. 30, 2021, in Los Angeles. | Source: Jason Armond / Getty For years now, perhaps even decades, white America has…
EXCLUSIVE: The Biden-Harris administration is still negotiating unilateral action on police reform, according to officials and stakeholders discussing next steps since Congress failed to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act As the nation watches on while Senate Democrats head into an improbable push on Tuesday to pass federal voting rights legislation, over at…
Blue Ivy Carter is once again being compared to her famous mom Beyoncé. Since the Carters are very private with their lives, every time a new photo drops of them, whether it be one that they put out or one that the paparazzi was able to capture, their fans go absolutely crazy. That’s exactly what…
Louisiana U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers. | Source: Chambers For Louisiana An upstart U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana challenging a Republican incumbent is making the decriminalization of marijuana a central part of his platform in his first campaign ad. Gary Chambers, a progressive Democrat who identifies in part as a social justice activist and advocate,…
A South Florida police sergeant has been taken off the street after a video of him choking a fellow officer emerged last week. Sgt. Christopher Pullease has been relieved of his supervisory duties with the Sunrise, Florida, police department and is now under investigation after local news station WSVN, acting on a tip, began asking…
“You can’t just brush this under the rug and think that it’s going to just go away,” the burn victim’s mom said. “It’s not.” A 13-year-old student in Henrico County, Virginia, suffered second and third-degree burns last week when a schoolmate set his hair on fire in front of their entire middle-school class. According to Fox…
Allen Media Group has announced its new strategic partnership with Google to accelerate growth across all of its portfolio. Allen Media Group, headed by theGrio owner Byron Allen, announced with Google on Monday a new multi-year and multi-platform strategic partnership to accelerate growth across the entire AMG portfolio of media and digital properties. Through the…
Ciara‘s latest upload featuring her husband, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, left fans fawning over the pair’s beauty on Saturday, Jan. 15, as they promoted their R&C unisex fragrance line. The brand R&C, a name that results from the combination of the first-name initials of Ciara and Russell, was originally released in 2020. In honor of the…
