LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 30: Journalist Don Lemon finishes a statement to media outside of federal court on January 30, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) “The playbook to come for our civil rights, our constitutional rights, and racial democracy,” civil rights leader Maya Wiley tells theGrio. The arrests of…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 07: Don Lemon speaks onstage during Telling the Truth in an Age of Misinformation at the 2025 Blackweek Conference at Spring Studios on October 07, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) “I look forward to my day in court,” Lemon said in his first statement…
Source: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty Movement for Black Lives has issued a response to the recent arrests of Don Lemon and the demonstrators who took part in an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, where a local ICE director serves as a pastor. As we previously reported, Lemon has said repeatedly that he was…
Nick Cannon attends WayMaker Men’s Summit Presented By BET Experience – Day 2 at The Beehive on June 06, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) Nick Cannon opens up about the first time he was intimate at age 13 with an older girl and the impact it had on…
Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty When Black people speak, there has always been a cost. That truth sits at the center of the recent arrests of four Black journalists—Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, Trahern Crews, and Jamael Lundy—by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 30, 2026. All four were reporting from a church in St….
A Black student and his mother are suing a Missouri school district, claiming that school officials failed to act on repeated reports of racial discrimination and harassment by white students and a football coach. They also say the school failed to accommodate the student’s disability and that the district retaliated against the mother for complaining…
Source: Fox 9 Minneapolis YouTube / Screenshot The arrests of Black journalists, Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, offer a chilling reminder that freedom isn’t free. According to the Star Tribune, Fort was released late Friday afternoon after a federal judge rejected the government’s claims that she committed a crime warranting her continued detention. “As a…
Screenshot/Georgia Fort Facebook Fort, an award-winning journalist in Minnesota, was arrested early Friday along with former CNN anchor Don Lemon and two others following their filming of an anti-ICE protest in a St. Paul church on January 18. Hours after Georgia Fort, the Minnesota chapter Vice President of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ),…
Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty Welp, after weeks of resorting to propaganda and victim-blaming in hopes of spinning the killings of Minnesota citizens and protesters at the hands of violent, trigger-happy immigration agents, it appears that the federal government has finally been shamed into doing its job. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced…
Steven Rivers in custody. (Photo credit: CBS Miami) Steven Rivers, 30, was arrested in connection with a sexual battery case that occurred on Sunday on Florida Memorial University’s campus. A man already in handcuffs and facing charges for sexual battery on Florida Memorial University’s campus is now facing additional charges after allegedly attempting to grope…
