OPINION: The NBA legend’s racing team, 23XI Racing, has reached victory lane twice since he entered the sport last year. It’s good news for NASCAR, which wants to grow and diversify its fanbase. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Thanks to Michael Jordan…
Thanks to Cooper’s deep love of nature, he’ll be hosting a new show, “Extraordinary Birder,” focused on his lifelong hobby. Christian Cooper, the Central Park birdwatcher made infamous by recording a woman making false claims about him to the police, has landed himself a new gig. Cooper will be the host of a new show…
This week on The Reset, CEO and author Teneshia Jackson Warner explains how a time audit can help you define your new normal on your terms. Whether you like it or not, outside is once again open and in full swing as if we never left, and there’s something bittersweet about seeing my schedule packed…
The rates among Black people fell 2% each year from 1999 to 2019, from 359 cancer deaths per 100,000 to 239 deaths per 100,000, according to the report published online in JAMA Oncology Cancer death rates have steadily declined among Black people but remain higher than in other racial and ethnic groups, a U.S. government…
A family in southwest Oklahoma family is breathing a collective sigh of relief since the officers who killed their son were charged with manslaughter this month. The Dec. 5, 2021, shooting cost the officers involved their jobs, and now the victim’s family waits on pins and needles as the looming trial will determine if the…
A person observes a memorial for the shooting victims outside of Tops market on May 20, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. | Source: Spencer Platt / Getty When it comes to mass shootings that involve illegally modified firearms, Payton Gendron is not America’s first gun-related rodeo. That’s why it’s unconscionable that online sites like YouTube…
On Tuesday, May 17, reality star Kandi Burruss of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” shared a video of her trip to Las Vegas to celebrate her birthday, with fans in turn noting how good she looked. Burruss, who also is an entrepreneur, turned 46. For her trip, she was accompanied by friends Lena Danielle, Ami…
New York prosecutors received more time to build their case against the Buffalo suspect on Thursday as a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder in the killing of 10 Black people at an Upstate supermarket Saturday. Payton Gendron, who has been dubbed “the most hated man in the country,” could also be facing state…
Osaka’s comments were offered during an 18-minute pre-tournament French Open news conference, one year after she declared she would avoid talking to the press and then withdrew before the second round. Naomi Osaka cracked jokes at Roland Garros on Friday — and, yes, laughed at those jokes. She smiled after some reporters’ questions. She paused to contemplate, as is her wont, before…
One person was taken into custody and a weapon was recovered, police said in a statement. Two people are dead and another eight wounded following a shooting near a fast-food restaurant just blocks from Chicago’s famed Magnificent Mile shopping district that sent bystanders scattering, authorities said. The shooting happened about 10:40 p.m. Thursday near a…
