Netflix recently unveiled its trailer for its upcoming western film “The Harder They Fall.” The movie is based on real historical outlaws and cowboys and features an all-Black cast, but one star’s inclusion has sparked outrage from fans eager to see the project. FX’s “Atlanta” actress Zazie Beetz is set to play Mary Fields, better…
Juwan Deering will not face a second trial, Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said Murder charges were dismissed Thursday against a man who spent 15 years in prison for the fire-related deaths of five children in suburban Detroit, the climax of an investigation that found misconduct by police and prosecutors. Juwan Deering will not face a…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assembled her leadership team for an early morning meeting and emerged determined to push ahead With President Joe Biden’s government overhaul at stake, Democrats charged into trouble Thursday as a promised vote on the first piece, a slimmer $1 trillion public works bill, faltered amid stalled talks on his more ambitious…
“I’ve did a lot of suffering with my sickle cell anemia, a lot of frequent hospitalizations and a lot of frequent pain crisis and episodes,” said sickle cell patient Lydia Langford, 39. Sickle cell anemia disease affects about 100,000 Americans, but African-Americans are disproportionately impacted. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 1…
The former president used Eddy Grant’s song in his failed 2020 re-election campaign A New York federal judge on Tuesday declined to dismiss a lawsuit from musician Eddy Grant against former President Donald Trump over the use of his music during Trump’s failed re-election campaign. Trump used Grant’s song “Electric Avenue” in a video he…
Source: FatCamera / Getty As conservatives across right-wing America continue their white fragility war on Critical Race Theory—a thing they use as an umbrella term for any Black history that makes white people uncomfortable, because they don’t know what the decades-old academic study actually is—New York City is taking the opposite approach and introducing a…
OPINION: Journalist Sil Lai Abrams explores if a hybrid approach of restorative justice and confinement could be the better answer in seeking justice in Kelly’s sexual abuse case After over 20 years of reporting, an illegal marriage to 15-year-old Aaliyah, widely disseminated video evidence of his creation of child pornography and rape commonly referred to…
Omarion sought to prove that he’s still the reigning king of unbothered energy when he joined in on the social media dance challenge that was created to poke fun at him. The 36-year-old singer became the unintentional originator of the #OmarionChallenge after performance footage of him from a 2015 Verizon concert went viral, thanks to…
EXCLUSIVE: The pioneering tennis star is the tournament director for the Chicago Tennis Festival which makes her the first African American woman to lead a tournament at that level Zina Garrison may not play tennis anymore, but her legacy is secured. In 1988, she won gold and bronze medals for the U.S. at the Summer…
EXCLUSIVE: “Justice continues to be delayed for our immigrant neighbors, for Black and brown folks,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley told TheGrio. “We owe it to the people to be bold, to be responsive to their needs.” U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been “pissed” since her meeting with White House officials on the immigration patrol agents at…
