At this point, one can only wonder if anyone hates anything as much as cops must hate the advent of the cellphone camera. There was a time when cops and Karens alike could engage in a little good old-fashioned racial profiling and harassment without ending up on someone’s viral video and possibly being confronted with…
Colvin’s legal team told CNN it plans to file paperwork to have the now-82-year-old woman’s 1955 arrest record cleared. Claudette Colvin, who was arrested at the age of 15 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white person, is now asking for her arrest record to be expunged. …
Then-Democratic Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones speaks to supporters of Donald Trump host a ‘Stop the Steal’ protest outside of the Georgia State Capital building on November 21, 2020, in Atlanta. | Source: Megan Varner / Getty Vernon Jones, the former Democratic Georgia state Rep.-turned MAGA man who hopes to become the Peach State’s next…
“Change them!” says Nathaniel Miller, a Black member of the town council who was stationed at Pickett after he returned from Vietnam in 1973. “It should have happened a long time ago Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and now a crossroad of…
DMX reportedly left no will when he died on April 9. At the time of rapper DMX’s death in April, his estate was left in a state of uncertainty. Further complicating things is the fact that he allegedly fathered so many children. A Georgia woman named Raven Barmer-Simmons has come forward alleging that she is…
Bow Wow’s actions he’s shown to the public eye regarding his son have not been sitting right with the fans lately. Over the weekend, it was declared by a Georgia court that 1-year-old Stone Moss, the son Bow Wow claimed last year but disowned last month, is biologically his son. Now, after gossip blog “The…
A study of elementary schoolchildren found the Pfizer shots are nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infection — even though the youngsters received just a third of the dose given to teens and adults Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may be getting closer as government advisers on Tuesday began deliberating whether there’s enough evidence…
A bust of the Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton was unveiled on Oct. 24 in commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the organization’s founding. The bronze figure of Newton was erected in the Oakland, California, neighborhood where the Black Power movement pioneer was killed in 1989. Fredrika Newton (3rd L), the widow of Black…
According to local media, Reed is in a statistical tie with City Council President Felicia Moore in next month’s race for mayor. The national leadership of the NAACP issued a rare admonition to the organization’s Atlanta chapter concerning its repudiation of former Atlanta mayor and current mayoral candidate Kasim Reed. NAACP President and CEO Derrick…
OPINION: TheGrio’s Gerren Keith Gaynor says there’s something to be said about Boosie Badazz and Black men like him who take pleasure in dehumanizing queer men The first time I was called a f**got was during the summer of 2013. I was around Lil Nas X’s age, and nowhere near as free and liberated in…
