The state Board of Pardons recommended the pardon for Plessy, who boarded the rail car hoping to overturn a state law segregating trains Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate…
Nia Long left millions of her followers speechless on Tuesday, Jan. 4, after welcoming the new year with a selfie. In the Instagram post, the actress, who appeared to be relaxing at home while wearing a brown fuzzy hat, served nothing but face as she smiled for the camera. Nia Long starts the new year with…
Jackson was headed to the barber when speeding Houston officer Orlando Hernandez lost control of his police cruiser. Body camera footage in connection with a fatal car crash on Dec. 4, in which a speeding Houston police officer drove up on the sidewalk striking and killing a 62-year-old man, has been released. Michael Wayne Jackson…
Cheryl “Coko” Gamble shared with fans on Instagram that she and son Jalen Clemons were stuck in their car for nine hours. The lead singer of the hit R&B trio SWV shared that she and her child were among the hundreds of motorists stranded for multiple hours on the frozen I-95 Tuesday in Virginia. Cheryl…
In his season of change, the co-creator of Very Smart Brothas explains why he made theGrio his new writing home June 3, 2004—my 25th birthday—was the date of the first blog post I ever wrote. I uploaded it to my old Blogspot page, one created for me by the homie Liz Burr (who would then…
There are white teachers who have no business teaching Black students and then there are teachers who don’t belong anywhere near a classroom at all. One “educator” who was recently fired from a Louisville, Kentucky, high school appears to fit both descriptions. Meet William Bennett. According to Louisville Courier-Journal, Bennett was a teacher at Marion…
OPINION: He is the second African-American mayor of the largest city in the U.S. and, in just a few short days, has already proven to be a wild card Shortly after midnight at the new year’s celebrations in Times Square, Eric Adams was sworn in as the 110th mayor of New York City. He is…
The U.S. Department of Justice is among groups suing two Southern states for alleging drawing voting district maps that discriminate against people of color, but lawmakers in the Republican-led states said they drew the maps race-blind. Texas and North Carolina redistricting leaders said they did not consider racial data while constructing the maps based on…
The Guardian newspaper reported the figure days after the Mail decided to forego further appeals and acknowledge that Markle had won her lawsuit The Duchess of Sussex will receive the nominal sum of 1 pound after a court found that Britain’s Mail on Sunday invaded her privacy. The Guardian newspaper reported the figure Wednesday, 10…
The four smoke alarms in the building, which was public housing, did not appear to have been working, fire officials said A large fire tore through a two-unit house early Wednesday in Philadelphia, killing 13 people, including seven children, and sending two people to hospitals, fire officials said. They warned the numbers could grow as…
