The state of emergency due to COVID will go into effect on Monday and last through Aug. 22 which means the Olympics, opening on July 23 and running through Aug. 8, will be held entirely under emergency measures. Fans are likely to be banned from the Tokyo Olympics following a state of emergency on Thursday…
A makeshift memorial for Leneal Frazieris shown in Minneapolis on July 7, 2021. | Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty The family of Leneal Frazier, a driver in Minneapolis who died after sustaining injuries from a police pursuit he wasn’t involved in, has retained renowned civil rights lawyer Ben Crump as they try…
Kevin Hart says his relationship with his older daughter, Heaven, is doing just fine following a revealing discussion about his 2017 cheating scandal. During a June recording of “Red Table Talk” with friend Will Smith, Hart opened up about his teenage daughter checking him after he’d been caught cheating on his wife, Eniko. In the…
Several pieces of surveillance footage from an Illinois jail released over recent months show a Black woman being pinned down and strip searched as male corrections officers watched after the woman was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence in 2019. Ariel Harrison, a 31-year-old mother of three who is blind in one eye, was…
Attorney Jennifer Bonjean and Bill Cosby speak outside of Cosby’s home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, hours after his release from prison on June 30. Source: Michael Abbott / Getty With his recently overturned conviction behind him, Bill Cosby‘s next legal battle is just weeks away. Using Cosby’s lawyer released a statement Tuesday sounding very confident in…
In July 2020, rapper Ice Cube unveiled a 22-page document titled A Contract with Black America as an effort to help combat racism and other social injustices Black people face in America. However, the rapper-turned-actor faced backlash after his initiative became a conduit for his collaboration with the Trump presidential campaign. More than half a…
The Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association has lost its fight to reinstate the former police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy, outside a Cleveland recreation center in 2014. In an announcement made on Tuesday, July 6, the Ohio Supreme Court said it would not consider the union’s latest appeal on behalf…
Waka Flocka and Tammy Rivera‘s daughter is becoming a young lady. On Saturday, July 3, Rivera posted a series of videos recapping her daughter Charlie Rivera celebrating her 16th birthday. The videos gave a sneak peek of Charlie in her beautiful gown, as well as the venue, which happened to be former “The Real Housewives…
They have been sentenced to juvenile detention until the age of 21. The two teen girls involved in the fatal carjacking of a Uber driver have been sentenced to juvenile detention until the age of 21. theGrio previously reported that the teenagers were charged in March after Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar, an immigrant who…
Rapper Iggy Azalea‘s latest visual efforts for her recent single “I Am the Stripclub” is garnering attention from critics for the wrong reasons. Following the release of the record on Friday, July 2, the Australian native debuted its video in which she appeared peculiarly bronzed, sporting a black wig, surrounded by dancers, several of whom…
