Singers Maxwell and Ashanti have been selected as honorees for the awards ceremony, which takes place at the Apollo Theater this month. Nominations for the 2021 Soul Train Awards have arrived. H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Chris Brown and WizKid are some of the artists who are up for multiple trophies, and longtime hitmakers Maxwell and Ashanti…
In 1993, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” was a very successful show and already into its third season when it recasted the role of Aunt Vivian, formerly played by Janet Hubert. Daphne Maxwell Reid won the part and ended up portraying the loving yet hysterical Aunt Vivian for the remainder of the show’s run, alongside…
A GoFundMe was set up to cover burial costs and a homegoing service in Brooklyn. Social media influencer Nenobia Washington, known as “The Queen of Brooklyn,” died over the weekend in what appears to have been a fatal fall from a building in New York City, TMZ reports. Washington, 38, became Instagram famous after her…
The actor describes his late father as a “violent” man in his new memoir. Will Smith’s memoir WILL drops next week, and bombshell excerpts released this week reveal his complicated relationship with his late father. The veteran actor keeps it all the way real about his childhood trauma in excerpts that appear exclusively in PEOPLE….
OPINION: Touré writes that Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia is part of a GOP playbook to stoke white fears in order to win elections. The moment I realized that Republican Glenn Youngkin had won the Virginia governor’s race I felt like I was falling into the sunken place. I felt lost and angry and dropped…
OPINION: TheGrio contributor Sophia A. Nelson says Democrats will need to figure out a way to navigate the hurdles of the white women vote before the 2022 midterm elections. So, Virginia has once again flipped from blue to red. Well maybe, purple. But, nevertheless, Republican newcomer Glenn Youngkin won a huge upset victory in the…
Source: Handout / Getty Henry Ruggs III of the Las Vegas Raiders was involved in a fatal car crash incident that killed a female passenger and her dog early morning on Nov. 2. According to the Las Vegas Metro Department, Ruggs’ Chevrolet Corvette smashed into the rear end of the victim’s Toyota RAV-4, instantly…
Cynthia Bailey‘s husband, Mike Hill, denied cheating on the former reality star and threatened to take legal actions against his accuser when he talked to TMZ on Nov. 3. Earlier this week, the 51-year-old was accused of trying to step out on his marriage by a Twitter user named @Alist_xo. According to The Jasmine Brand,…
T-Pain resurfaced earlier this year after taking a public hiatus from music. With his return came an even more animated version of himself and revealing stories. The Florida native previously spoke about his decision to pull away from music — hint: it has to do with Usher disapproving of his use of autotune — but…
As Jay-Z famously rapped, “men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.” And the numbers behind Republican Glenn Youngkin‘s gubernatorial victory over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia on Tuesday paint a vividly pale as white women emerged as an electorate force to be reckoned with while Black voter turnout reportedly lagged in Virginia, according to exit polling…
