EXCLUSIVE: For Pride Month, theGrio sat down with U.S. Representatives Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres, who both made history this year as the nation’s first openly gay Black men to serve in Congress Earlier this year, U.S. Congressmen Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres made history when they were sworn in as the first openly gay…
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a stimulus package that forgives agricultural debts to Black farmers and other farmers of color. U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard issued a preliminary injunction, halting a part of the loan forgiveness payments and blocking the $4 billion aid package, saying the program’s “rigid, categorical, race-based qualification for…
Wilson launched his 3Brand children’s line over the weekend at the Rookie USA flagship store in NYC It looks like Ciara and Russell Wilson‘s children may have modeling careers in their future. The celebrity couple’s little ones modeled Wilson’s new kid’s clothing line at the launch on Thursday. The NFL player launched his 3Brand children’s fashion line with…
Almost a year after Black organizers were doxxed by the former mayor, several Twitter users called out a white St. Louis attorney for attacks on Action St. Louis, a grassroots racial justice organization, and its staff. In a series of tweets, Jane Dueker accused Action St. Louis, and executive director Kayla Reed, of engaging in…
Dancehall star Spice’s recent appearance on “The Breakfast Club” sparked an online debate over the weekend surrounding hip hop’s true origins stating that it has roots in Jamaica. It’s long been documented that the popular genre was invented in the Bronx in the 1970s by Jamaican-born artist DJ Kool Herc. The now 66-year-old, whose real…
Stephens eliminated two-time champion and 10th-seeded Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-4 Wimbledon returned Monday after being called off in 2020 because of the pandemic, and so much felt rather familiar at the All England Club, from the rain that disrupted the schedule to the victory for Novak Djokovic. Much like the delays to competition around the…
It looks like Rihanna is severing a tie to one ex in particular. The “Love on the Brain” singer has officially decided to cover up her old matching shark tattoo that she got with her former rumored ex-boo Drake. Hers was placed on her left ankle, and his was positioned on his right arm. (L-R):…
The 12-man list includes Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard and Draymond Green Experience mattered to USA Basketball when putting together a roster for the Tokyo Olympics. The Americans formally revealed their roster Monday, one that will be third-oldest U.S. men’s team in Olympic history for the Tokyo Games. The 12-man list includes…
Gwen Levi is one of many federal prisoners sent to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic A 76-year-old woman is being sent back to prison after reportedly missing a phone call from officials charged with supervising her while she was taking a computer word-processing course in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. According to a report from The Washington…
A Saturday shooting that claimed the lives of two Black victims, an Air Force veteran and a retired State Police trooper in Winthrop, Massachusetts, is being investigated as a hate crime, according to The Boston Globe. 28-year-old Nathan Allen fatally shot Ramona Cooper, 60, a staff sergeant in the Air Force, and David L. Green,…
