Sean Patrick Grayson. | Source: Sangamon County Jail Last week, a Fourth District Appellate Court decision overturned a lower court’s ruling that Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean P. Grayson, who is charged with first-degree murder after shooting Sonya Massey to death in her home on July 6, should be remanded until trial. To the dismay…
Marilyn Mosby speaks during a Dec. 2019 news conference in Baltimore. Sentencing for the former Baltimore state’s attorney is set to open Thursday at a federal courthouse in Greenbelt. Mosby is to be sentenced for lying about her personal finances so she could improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Julio Cortez/AP, file)…
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly suggested annexing Canada as the 51st state during his sit-down last week with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss Trump’s threat to impose a 25 tariff on Canada unless Trudeau does more to curtail illegal immigration and drug trafficking across the U.S. northern border. Trudeau traveled last Friday to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate…
Source: AAPF The African American Policy Foundation (AAPF) is set to host on Tuesday night a necessary panel conversation that centers Black women in the wake of the 2024 general election and amplifies the perspective of those who disproportionately voted in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris. Entitled “Under the Blacklight: Views from the 92%…
Yvonne Orji, left and Issa Rae attend The Fashion Awards 2024 Presented by Pandora at the Royal Albert Hall on December 02, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFC) Yvonne Orji was on hand at the British Fashion Awards to present close friend and former co-star Issa Rae with Pandora’s Leader…
Police escort Bernhard Goetz out of a New York courthouse after a hearing in his attempted murder trial. | Source: Bettmann / Getty The one man who’s steadily drawn direct comparisons surrounding last year’s shocking chokehold death of an unarmed Black man on a New York City subway train has broken his silence about the…
It may be a lonely Christmas for actor Hugh Jackman. The “Wolverine” star was hoping to spend some time with his children for the holidays, but since controversy around his rumored romance with Broadway co-star Sutton Foster has surfaced his ex-wife Deborra Lee Furness is not up for it, a new report claims. Woman’s Day…
(L-R) Boris Kodjoe, Sophie Kodjoe, and Nicole Ari Parker attend the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards: Celebrating Generations of Progress & Power at Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Ms. Foundation for Women) The celebrity couple’s daughter, Sophie Kodjoe, was the only Black debutante at…
(Photo: Courtesy of Byron Allen) The latest ruling in a lawsuit filed by Allen’s media companies is hailed as “historic” as Allen uses a post-Civil War statute in his bid against the fast food chain. A judge has ruled in favor of media mogul and owner of theGrio, Byron Allen, allowing his $10 billion racial…
A Missouri cop who bragged about his 17 years on the force without getting sued arrested a Black man for failing to identify himself who was doing nothing more than recording video in public last month. “I’ve been doing this line of work for 17 years, right. I have done that without complaint or lawsuit…
