Source: Bloomberg / Getty When Texas Democrats walked out on a sham vote on voting rights over the Memorial Day weekend, they issued a challenge to their federal counterparts. As reported by The Washington Post, progressive Texas legislators see a national response as necessary in order to combat current attacks at the state level. Responding…
“Now we are going to be moving dollars and circulating those dollars within our community,” says Khadijah Robinson, Head of Product for Shop Circulate. “I really want to shop Black-owned, but don’t know where to find business,” many people said following the events of 2020 that included Black lives being lost in large numbers at…
Vanessa Carlton’s hit single “A Thousand Miles” is one of those rare songs that can get folks singing seemingly regardless of age or race. However, after a group of young rappers decided to sample the Grammy-nominated track for a violently charged song titled “Who I Smoke,” it left many of Carlton’s fans wondering whether everyone…
“It seemed like half the police force came out and they kept me, sitting in my car, screaming at me commands,” he said. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is speaking out about being held at gunpoint by a California police officer when he was a college student on the west coast. In a new interview with…
“This is the location that has shaped the arc of their professional lives, and it’s where they started their family. It’s a homecoming,” said Art Institute Director of Interpretation Emily Fry. The portraits of former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama are heading to Chicago. In a tour organized by the Smithsonian’s National…
“I’m wishing the greatest love of my life a happy Pride month,” Nash declared. Pride month is here and Niecy Nash is crying “tears of joy”. In a recent video, Nash is seen celebrating the start of Pride month with her wife, Jessica Betts. Hugging her wife in an emotional TikTok video, Nash let her…
More than three dozen members and associates across both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers have been charged with crimes Former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election united right-wing supporters, conspiracy theorists and militants on Jan. 6, but the aftermath of the insurrection is roiling two of the most prominent far-right extremist groups at the U.S. Capitol that day….
The Canadian government is hoping to make the entrepreneurial playing field more even for Black business owners with the launch of a $291.3 million Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund. The loan fund is an extension of the Black Entrepreneurship Program — a partnership between the Canadian government and Black-led business organizations, and financial institutions — that creates…
Beatz went on Instagram Live with Timbaland to break down their recent battle After his epic Verzuz rematch with Timbaland, Swizz Beatz clarified his recent comments which implied that Justin Timberlake took from Black culture. As theGrio previously reported, Verzuz co-founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland took to the Verzuz stage with an official rematch on…
Turner’s trial had been set for October 2020, but it was postponed after the Tennessee Supreme Court suspended trials last year because of COVID-19 A Tennessee judge Wednesday set a 2022 trial date for a man charged with conspiring with the ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright to kill the former NBA player nearly 11 years ago…
