OPINION: Journalist Sil Lai Abrams explores if a hybrid approach of restorative justice and confinement could be the better answer in seeking justice in Kelly’s sexual abuse case After over 20 years of reporting, an illegal marriage to 15-year-old Aaliyah, widely disseminated video evidence of his creation of child pornography and rape commonly referred to…
Omarion sought to prove that he’s still the reigning king of unbothered energy when he joined in on the social media dance challenge that was created to poke fun at him. The 36-year-old singer became the unintentional originator of the #OmarionChallenge after performance footage of him from a 2015 Verizon concert went viral, thanks to…
EXCLUSIVE: The pioneering tennis star is the tournament director for the Chicago Tennis Festival which makes her the first African American woman to lead a tournament at that level Zina Garrison may not play tennis anymore, but her legacy is secured. In 1988, she won gold and bronze medals for the U.S. at the Summer…
EXCLUSIVE: “Justice continues to be delayed for our immigrant neighbors, for Black and brown folks,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley told TheGrio. “We owe it to the people to be bold, to be responsive to their needs.” U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been “pissed” since her meeting with White House officials on the immigration patrol agents at…
An 8-year-old Black girl who was struck by bullets at a Pennsylvania high school football game in August was shot by Sharon Hill Borough police officers, the Delaware County District Attorney’s office announced Monday. District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said that “initial ballistics analysis” has concluded with “near certainty” that bullets fired by officers killed 8-year-old…
Source: Sergei Bobylev / Getty Boooooy, there must have been something in the air on Jan. 6, 2021, that had violent and racist white people losing every last bit of their MAGA minds and taking their rage out on the world. On the same day a mob of rabid melanin-nots engaged in a rage against…
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade are one of Black Hollywood’s most fashionable couples. They know how to complement one another’s styles, whether the look is casual or full-on glam, but the actress hilariously dished about how she sometimes has to try and reel her handsome husband back in when his tight ‘fits fit too tight….
Source: ThisIsButter / Radio One Digital Georgia police detained and cited a black man in Hephzibah, GA for singing rap music too loud while he was walking home. According to the Augusta Chronicle, Christopher Jefferson was walking down Brothersville Road singing a rap song when police approached him on the sidewalk. Officers then told Jefferson…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is offering jobs to border agents on horseback who were punished for charging at Haitian migrants. The governor of Texas is offering jobs to border agents who might be fired for swinging reins and charging at Haitian migrants on horseback after the images stunned the nation. President Joe Biden called their…
A Black family in Virginia Beach says a neighbor is harassing them with loud music, lights and racist recordings. A family in Virginia Beach, a coastal community of half a million people where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, is alleging that their neighbor is harassing them with blinking lights, loud music and recordings…
