A Black woman has filed a lawsuit against the Delaware Division of state police after she was blockaded and held at gunpoint by plainclothes officers last month until they realized she was not the suspect they were looking for. According to a lawsuit filed on July 14 in U.S. District Court, Martiayna Watson, 20, was…
A majority of unvaccinated Americans believe the government is using the COVID-19 vaccine to secretly put microchips in Americans. A new poll reveals that a staggering amount of the American public will not get vaccinated due to conspiracy theories concerning the government implanting microchips in the vaccine to spy on citizens. The survey, which was…
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and others removed a Black Lives Matter flag from Asbury United Methodist Church and set it aflame. The leader of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys has pleaded guilty to burning a banner hanging from a historic Black church. The vandalism occurred on Dec. 12 when Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and a group…
In the early spring of 2019, it was announced that former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal was adding another business venture onto his résumé, Papa John’s. However, unlike his other dealings, Shaq was not only going to be in commercials trying to convince families to eat pizza and breadsticks. In a partnership he described as a…
Jaylan Banks confirmed his relationship with former “The Real Housewives of Atlanta“ star Falynn Guobadia on Saturday, July 17, by sharing a snapshot of the two hugging alongside a sentimental post. This announcement comes a month after Simon Guobadia accused his estranged wife, Falynn, of being pregnant by Banks following her tell-all interview clip, which the 57-year-old…
Alisa White, a 61-year-old grandmother of 11 from the hamlet of Wyandanch in Long Island, New York, is being called a “walking miracle” by doctors after she survived COVID-19, several surgeries and other ailments over the past year. About six months ago, White was a Huntington Hospital patient, who’d been placed in a medically induced…
Source: Change.org / Aliyah Shipman A teenage star Taekwondo fighter who used to compete with Team USA says she is being blocked from fighting in the Tokyo Olympics because she represents Haiti now. Aliyah Shipman, 18, claims that U.S. Olympic officials are trying to sabotage her “dream” of fighting at the Olympics by questioning her…
Marvel‘s upcoming “Blade” reboot has tapped playwright Stacy Osei-Kuffour as the film’s head writer, making her the first Black woman to pen a Marvel movie. Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will star in the film as the half-human, half-vampire vigilante, a role originated by Wesley Snipes in the late ’90s/early 2000s film trilogy, and was…
The 14-part series originally aired on PBS from 1987 to 1990. The critically acclaimed civil rights documentary series Eyes on the Prize has been given the small screen treatment. Directed by Henry Hampton, the 14-part series originally aired on PBS from 1987 to 1990. The first six episodes are now streaming on HBO Max. The…
EXCLUSIVE: The model sat down with theGrio to talk about the differences between judging on ‘Making the Cut’ and being judged on ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Returning after a thrilling first season, Making the Cut is back on Amazon, this time with accomplished supermodel Winnie Harlow joining the judge’s panel. TheGrio caught up with Harlow…
