Star Jones is returning to daytime television and the courtroom. Just a little over a week into the new year, Jones announced that she had been named the latest host of the long-running show “Divorce Court.” Starting in September, audiences will be able to once again get their daily dose of the outspoken personality who…
Poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s face joined the first president of the United States on a select number of quarters minted for distribution in 2022. The renowned author will not only be the first Black person to grace the quarter-dollar coin, but is the only person to do so outside of George Washington. Maya…
Angelou is the first Black woman to appear in the American Women Quarters series On Tuesday’s episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg shared her thoughts on the new Maya Angelou quarter. The first coin in the American Women Quarters Program has been shipped, and it features poet and activist Dr. Maya Angelou, theGrio previously reported….
The troubled wide receiver gave the quote to TMZ while hanging with Kanye West in Los Angeles Monday night Antonio Brown may be having a change of heart about some of his most recent bizarre behavior. The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver flew to Los Angeles on Monday after spending the last week mired…
West will reportedly be “spending a lot of time out there” as he plans to make Russia “his second home.” Kanye West is going to Russia. The rapper is reportedly planning a trip to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin and host his popular “Sunday Service” show. The “All Falls Down” rapper will head…
Jackson says she’s happy to see more women embracing themselves as they are then falling victim to outdated standards of beauty As the world awaits the premiere of Janet Jackson’s Lifetime documentary later this month, they can get a glimpse of her on the cover of Allure Magazine. The five-time Grammy winner graces the cover…
President Joe Biden (C) and Vice President Kamala Harris (L) are greeted by Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), as they arrive for a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia on January 11, 2022. | Source: JIM WATSON / Getty While President Joe Biden was citing the local legacy of voting rights during the beginning…
The upcoming series is based on the bestselling novel of the same name. Disney’s Onyx Collective ordered a new limited series, The Plot, starring Mahershala Ali from Hulu. The upcoming series from Endeavor Content is an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz‘s best selling novel of the same name. Korelitz’s other book, You Should Have Known, was recently…
Ewing, who was biracial, is the mother of actress and “Passing” director Rebecca Hall. American opera singer Maria Ewing has passed away at age of 71 after suffering from a ‘brief illness’. The singer’s spokesperson, Bryna Rifkin, said she died Sunday in her home in Detroit, The Associated Press reports. “She was an extraordinarily gifted…
The writer, style expert and podcast host finds a new home as theGrio’s lifestyle editor. What is home? It’s a question I’ve been pondering lately as I’ve settled into yet another new residence, tirelessly obsessing over every minute detail—from the precise shade of curtain to best frame the view to which books deserve a place…
