“We hear you. I hear you and want to be clear that we are in the process of renaming,” Jordan said of the culturally significant brand name J’Ouvert In an Instagram post on Wednesday morning, Michael B. Jordan apologized for his rum brand name, which was called out for cultural appropriation. As theGrio previously reported,…

“He hears voices and the TV at the same time, so it’s kind of confusing. I’ve seen him looking at some baseball games on his laptop, but I don’t think he really understands what’s going on,” the father of Toles said. Mental health can still be a taboo topic in the Black community, but this…

A years’-old radio interview for Nick Cannon has fans thinking up reasons as to why the 40-year-old actor-comedian has fathered seven children by different women. On June 22, a clip of Cannon talking about his battle with lupus kidney disease and his near-death experiences resurfaced. In 2017, he shared on “The Howard Stern Show” that…

Authorities in Flint say 19-year-old Briana Sykes shot first from her car at a police officer working its Juneteenth parade route The Michigan officer who shot and killed a 19-year-old woman during a Juneteenth parade in Flint was later spotted breaking down in tears after the shooting.  The woman who was fatally shot has been…

The Department of Justice announced Monday, June 21, that an Indiana man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release after making racially motivated threats to a Black neighbor in June 2020. Shepherd Hoehn, 51, of Lawrence, pleaded guilty in February to violating the Fair Housing Act and for…

Police responded to the singer’s home in Tarzana on Friday, where an unidentified woman said Brown slapped her forcefully. Embattled singer Chris Brown is once again under investigation for violence against a woman.  Police responded to the singer’s home in the San Fernando Valley on Friday, where an unidentified woman claimed Brown had slapped her…

Source: Getty Images / Getty Tamir Rice‘s mother used no uncertain terms when addressing Shaun King in a recent social media post that called him out for sharing the details of a recent conversation they had. Samaria Rice, mother of a 12-year-old boy gunned down in 2014 by police in Cleveland within seconds of seeing…

Earlier this year, Tiffany Haddish shocked the world with a bold blond new hair color; now she’s gone through another physical transformation.  In a chat with “Extra,” she discussed the 50 pounds she lost during the pandemic. She showed the outfit she was wearing and shared that she would be wearing the outfit later on…

Kyanni Williams was supposed to be delivered via natural birth at Denver Health, but her mom’s labor was induced A couple in Denver, Colorado was traumatized when the birth of their newborn required an emergency cesarean section, resulting in a cut to the baby’s face that required 13 stitches.  Damarqus Williams said the injury to…