Torrei Hart stirred the pot on Nov. 3 after leaving a negative remark on a viral video of a wife gifting her husband a car for his birthday. In the clip, Janelle Tinch surprised her husband Dre Tinch with his dream car, a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro, for his 29th birthday. Throughout the video, Dre gets visibly…
Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley acknowledged the “intentional discrimination” by attorneys for the three white defendants charged in the death of Arbery A judge ruled Wednesday that he’ll seat one Black juror and 11 whites to decide the trial of the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery, despite prosecutors’ objections that several Black potential…
Walter Whitehead always knew the value of a dollar. He recalls listening to adults talk about money when he was a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles. Their fixation piqued his interest and signaled to him how important it was to have. It was a fascination that began early. Spurred by that curiosity,…
At least 57 state and local GOP officials reportedly attended the deadly Jan. 6 rally Several Republicans who won office on Tuesday attended the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C., although all have previously made it clear that they did not breach the U.S. Capitol. Three officials were elected to state legislatures, and five…
theGrio premieres an exclusive clip from the Amazon Prime Video film. Marvin Gaye once sang, “The artist pays the price so you don’t have to pay.” The 1981 track “Life is for Learning” spoke to how singers and songwriters choose to sacrifice themselves for the sake of enlightening the listener on better ways to navigate…
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…
