Source: 11 Alive / Boykins Family A Georgia family wants answers after their 12-year-old son was killed by police on September 10, during a high-speed chase which turned deadly on Highway 92 in Paulding County. Leden Boykins, 12, was in the car with a neighbor and his 14-year-old son getting a ride home when police…
Spirit Airlines Karen. | Source: CAIR / Council on Islamic American Relations On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a white woman allegedly commemorated the occasion the way white Americans of the MAGA persuasion often do—by being a racist, Islamaphobic bigot. According to WXYZ Detroit, Aicha Toure, a Black Muslim woman, said she…
Mendeecees Harris recently opened up about his past struggles on Instagram during a trip down memory lane as the 42-year-old took his children to school. In the post from Thursday, Sept. 9, Harris shared a side-by-side collage of a throwback image of himself and present-day photo of his oldest son Mendeecees Harris Jr., 15, at…
Kaden Ingram was reportedly shot by his mother over a dispute about a cell phone memory card. A Chicago woman is being accused of murdering her 12-year-old son over a dispute about a memory card for a cell phone. Fallon Harris, 37, has been charged with first-degree murder in Saturday’s shooting death of Kaden Ingram. …
Photos taken outside Monday night‘s 75th Met Gala show well-dressed disruptors being carried away by New York City police. Multiple people were arrested outside the 75th Met Gala Monday night as they demonstrated on behalf of Black Lives Matter. The annual benefit gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute returned this year after…
The Black national anthem being played at NFL games continues to be a source of scrutiny as the season gets underway. Criticism of the song, known as “Lift Every Voice,” once again cropped up on Sept. 9 when Grammy award-winning artist Alicia Keys and the Florida A&M (a historically Black university) choir performed the song…
Exclusive: Rasheda Ali Walsh tells theGrio that she was drawn to this project because it depicts him as “a Muslim, a father, a brother, husband, a poet, a patriot, and an ambassador of peace.” Muhammad Ali is one of the most charismatic trailblazers in history whose every move has been documented in and out of…
Two Chicago police officers are facing possible termination after nearly seven years following an investigation into a parking garage fight involving the two cops was said to have been started after they allegedly used a racial slur. The two men had been on desk duty in the interim. Not much has been public about the…
Jennifer Hudson is one step closer to EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). The singer-actress ended her Thursday right by celebrating her Emmy win with her followers. Hudson earned the award for her executive producer role in the interactive fairytale story called Baba Yaga. She was one among several on a team that worked on…
Black ownership in the NFL has been an ongoing conversation in the sports industry for some time now, and one name that constantly gets mentioned as the one to make it a reality is none other than Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter. However, it looks like Hov may be closer to achieving what many thought would never…
