Source: coldsnowstorm / Getty Oregon teachers and other school staff must be vaccinated by Oct. 18. But an anti-vax special education staffer at an elementary school decided protesting in blackface was the way to protest the change. The NBC affiliate KGW reported the staffer showed up to work in blackface on Friday. The staffer is…
Tameka “Tiny” Harris showcased on Saturday, Sept. 18, what “a real love story” looked like by posting a touching photo of her with her five-year-old daughter Heiress Harris. This initial image displayed the mother-daughter duo embracing each other while taking a break from bowling festivities. The bowling family night was originally documented on Heiress’ YouTube…
‘NBA Today’ will premiere next month, the day before the new NBA season begins ESPN has chosen a successor to Rachel Nichols’ The Jump with Malika Andrews and her new show, NBA Today. ESPN announced on Monday that Andrews will host NBA Today which is set to debut on Oct. 18, a day before the…
Fans of the James Bond catalog spanning 25 films will soon be bidding adieu to their leading man of 15 years, Daniel Craig, and at the same time be introduced to a new agent, Nomi, played by Black actress Lashana Lynch. Two years ago, the British actress was cast in the franchise. According to multiple…
An Albany, New York, man has been arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime after authorities say he vandalized a Black Lives Matter street mural. Witnesses reported Ian Rawlinson, 43, to Albany police on Thursday, Sept. 16, for defacing the Lark Street mural. When officers arrived, Rawlinson had already left the…
Holliday wasn’t vaccinated and reportedly spent weeks on a ventilator The man who filmed Rodney King‘s infamous beating at the hands of the LAPD in 1991 has died after reportedly contracting COVID-19. He was 61. George Holliday passed away Sunday while hospitalized with pneumonia in Simi Valley, CA, TMZ reports. Holliday wasn’t vaccinated and allegedly…
EXCLUSIVE: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told theGrio’s April Ryan during Monday’s press briefing: “Our immigration policy is not about discriminating against one country over another.” White House officials are pushing back against advocacy groups, saying there is no discrimination in the deportation of Haitian immigrants against other nations seeking asylum in the United…
Tavis Rhodes was one of the victims and his family says they are distraught at having to deal with life without him Two people are dead after shots rang out on the North Carolina Central University campus on Saturday, Sept. 18. No students from the university were involved in the shooting, per a statement from…
He had been out on a $10,000 bond related to a felony assault case The grandson of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson was fatally shot in the city’s Kinsman neighborhood Sunday evening. Frank Q. Jackson, 24, was reportedly shot near the intersection of Sidaway Avenue and East 70th Street at approximately 9:10 p.m., Cleveland 19 reports….
Awkwafina has seemingly addressed the criticism surrounding her continuous usage of “blaccent.” In a 2017 interview, the Asian-American actress said “I refuse to do accents” when taking on movie roles, but a year later she was featured in “Ocean’s 8” and “Crazy Rich Asians” using what many considered to be African-American Vernacular English otherwise known as…
