Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Early Tuesday evening the state of Missouri executed Ernest Johnson, an intellectually disabled man, for a crime committed in 1994. As reported by the Associated Press, Johnson’s lawyers insisted that his intellectual functioning was equivalent to that of a young child.  Anti-death penalty advocate and spiritual adviser Sister Helen Prejean spoke out…

Moneybagg Yo took to Twitter on Monday, Oct. 4, to help uplift his girlfriend Ari Fletcher‘s spirits after she opened up about social media trolls. In a Twitter post shared earlier that day, the model expressed how sad it is to see other people pass judgment on individuals they don’t know. ATLANTA, GA – SEPTEMBER…

Biden has resisted any filibuster rule changes over other issues, but his off-the-cuff comments interjected a new urgency to an increasingly uncertain situation. To get around Republican obstruction, President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Democrats are considering a change to the Senate’s filibuster rules in order to quickly approve lifting the nation’s debt limit and avoid what…

Source: Pacific Press / Getty As part of an ongoing investigation, the FBI raided the offices of the Sergeants Benevolent Association in New York. The Associated Press reported that the FBI also raided the home of Ed Mullins, the union’s president.   A regular on right-wing outlets, Mullins is known for his outlandish commentary and suspected QAnon support. It’s…

Chadwick Boseman‘s alma mater, Howard University, is continuing to honor the late actor’s memory by making a path for the next generation of Black talent through a $5.4 million scholarship created in his honor. Months after naming the College of Fine Arts for the “Black Panther” actor, who died after battling colon cancer in 2020,…

Many state legislatures have made it their mission to attack the historical truth about our nation. North Carolina educators in Johnston County face disciplinary action or termination if they teach Critical Race Theory in the classroom.  The UNC-Chapel Hill history department defines CRT as a “scholarly framework that describes how race, class, gender, and sexuality organize…

In the last two decades. the prolific film executive has his hands in the creation of many Black-led films Black Hollywood royalty Will Packer is on deck to produce the 94th Oscars, Academy President David Rubin announced Tuesday. It’s the first time the Emmy-nominated Packer, perhaps best known as producer of the uber-popular 2017 raunchfest…

An academic course covering Drake and The Weeknd, two of the biggest acts to ever come out of Canada, will soon be available to students at Toronto’s X University soon-to-be- renamed Ryerson University’s The Creative School.  Starting in the winter semester, the institution will offer a class called “Deconstructing Drake & The Weeknd,” the university…

Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, “The Closer”, premiered on the streamer Tuesday. Dave Chappelle is facing some heat. The comic legend is being called out for recent jokes from his latest Netflix special, The Closer, in which he quips about DaBaby‘s homophobia, trans lives and the LGBTQIA+ community at large. As theGrio previously reported, Dave Chappelle’s…