Grandma Tina Knowles-Lawson publicly praised her granddaughter, Blue Ivy Carter, for receiving the 2021 Voice Arts Award for best voice-over of a children’s audiobook. She narrated the audiobook version of Matthew A. Cherry’s “Hair Love.” Knowles took to Instagram saying, “Congrats my Blue. You killed this!! It’s only the beginning ! You are so talented…
theGrio breaks down how to celebrate Day 1 of the Kwanzaa holiday Dec. 26 marks the beginning of Kwanzaa, and on this first day, we light the sole Black candle at the center of our kinara in honor of the principle Umoja, meaning Unity. Pledge: On this day, we pledge to strive for and maintain…
The jail key that locked away and decades later freed Nelson Mandela is being sold at a New York auction house A South African Cabinet minister on Friday urged the cancellation of an upcoming U.S. auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country’s first Black president, was long…
Young and her fellow Marvelettes helped lay the foundation for Motown Records’ chart-topping success in the 1960s The Marvelettes singer Wanda Young, whose girl group helped lay the foundation for Motown Records’ monumental success during the 1960s, died earlier this month in Garden City, Michigan, according to the multiple sources. She was 78. Young’s daughter,…
Tutu was South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and a retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90….
Tammy Rivera wants fans to stay in their place. The “Love and Hip Hop” star recently had to check a fan about mentioning her name with her husband Waka Flocka’s recent post. The “Round of Applause” rapper is never one to back down from his opinion, and is also not afraid to share it. Waka…
Daniele Lawson made her feature film debut in “King Richard,” to help tell the story of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams and their father, Richard. Starring alongside Will Smith, who portrayed Richard, and Aunjanue Ellis, who plays Venus and Serena’s mother, Oracene, Lawson plays Isha Price, Venus and Serena’s sister in “King Richard.” The…
Source: Jason Armond / Getty Two books from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones are the gifts that keep on giving. Twitter users excitedly showed off their copies of “The 1619 Project” and “The 1619 Project: Born on the Water.” Jones tweeted she was touched by the posts. Seeing all of you excitedly posting your…
“When I was growing up, it’s either you sell drugs, play basketball or you rapped; that’s no longer true for Black kids, there’s too much opportunity out here,” said Reco Oxendine, an entrepreneur and financial literacy advocate in the Philadelphia suburb of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Oxendine has made building generational wealth and closing the racial wealth…
Source: valentinrussanov / Getty Each season, the celebration of Christmas has religious leaders and conservatives publicly complaining about the commercialization of the holiday and the growing lack of Christian sentiment. Many people seem to believe that there was once a way to celebrate the birth of Christ in a more spiritual way. Such perceptions about Christmas celebrations…
