“I was so happy when Beyoncé called,” Smith says of her interest in participating after she saw the film about Venus and Serena Williams’ dad. Beyoncé’s new song, “Be Alive,” has been teased in a new trailer for the pending Will Smith-led film, King Richard. Iconic athlete Serena Williams shared the official trailer on Twitter…
EXCLUSIVE: Orji opens up about saying goodbye to the iconic role and series on “Acting Up.” In a recent episode of theGrio‘s Acting Up podcast with Cortney Wills, Yvonne Orji dove deep on the final season of Insecure, set to premiere on HBO this weekend. Insecure may be all about Issa Rae‘s character, Issa Dee,…
OPINION: U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush makes the case for why federal agencies must publicly release all files related to J. Edgar Hoover’s racially-targeted COINTELPRO It was 1966 and the civil rights movement had been slowly building steam for more than a decade when the Black Panther Party emerged on the national stage: strident, confident,…
Du Nord Craft Spirits, the first Black-owned distillery in the nation, was struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic. Now the award-winning distillery based in Minneapolis has partnered with a national airline. Du Nord Craft has teamed up with Delta Air Lines to serve its Foundation Vodka on flights. The airline began offering Du Nord’s…
In response to Spicer’s tweet, the singer-songwriter brought up the former White House staffer’s shaky relationship with truth-telling. Acclaimed singer-songwriter John Legend took exception to Sean Spicer’s critique of his ad about voting rights, bringing up the former Trump adviser’s own shaky relationship with the truth. Spicer, who served as White House communications director under…
OPINION: Sophia A. Nelson criticizes Rice’s comments on “The View” and says the former secretary of state should know better having grown up in the segregated south. There are few women walking this earth who I admire, intellectually and professionally, more than I do Condoleezza Rice. The first Black woman to serve as the White…
T.I. Harris apparently chose violence when he decided to prank his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris on Oct. 18. The fashion prank, which was a three-part video on Instagram, consisted of the rapper dressing nicely and trying to leave the house in hopes of seeing Tiny’s reaction. In the first recording before the joke, the 41-year-old…
Noble, the director of UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, googled “Black girls,” and pornography turned up first in her search. UCLA professor-scholar-author Safiya Noble is speaking out against how algorithms used in big tech are embedded with racism and sexism. There has been a major reckoning over the role social media companies play in…
Taraji P. Henson recently dropped a bombshell about her past experience with abuse. In a sneak peek for the upcoming episode of her Facebook Watch series, “Peace of Mind Taraji,” with co-host Tracie Jade and special guest Angela Simmons, the veteran actress opened up when she made the brave decision to leave an abusive relationship….
The film world, folks on social media and especially the actors, directors and staff on the film set of Rust, a movie being filmed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are currently grappling with an on-set tragedy after one of the movie’s stars, veteran actor and producer Alec Baldwin, fired a prop gun that killed one…
