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Rushion McDonald’s 3815 Media, Inc. partners with HBCUGO.TV to broadcast ‘Money Making Conversations’

April 13, 2022
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Each episode of “Money Making Conversations” features a master class with an illustrious graduate of a historically Black college or university. The company founded by multiple Emmy Award- and NAACP Image Award-winning TV/film/radio producer Rushion McDonald, 3815 Media, Inc., is partnering with HBCUGO.TV to broadcast Money Making Conversations master classes on the streaming network. HBCUGO.TV…

Anxieties resurface as gunfire erupts on NYC subway

April 13, 2022
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The shooting was a searing reminder of the city’s battle with gun violence and the specter of terror-like attacks that hangs over New York City As the year began, New Yorkers shuddered at a subway crime straight out of urban nightmares — the death of a woman shoved onto the tracks by a disturbed stranger. The city’s…

CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises

April 13, 2022
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was extending the order, which was set to expire on April 18 The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is extending the nationwide mask requirement for public transit for 15 days as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Viola Davis Talks Colorism, Says Black Actors Didn’t Think She Was ‘Pretty Enough’ to Star In ‘HTGAWM’

April 13, 2022
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Viola Davis is getting honest about her experience in Hollywood. In her upcoming memoir, the award-winning actress revealed that the industry didn’t think she was pretty enough to portray the prominent criminal defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating on the hit ABC-TV series “How to Get Away with Murder.” It’s a role that earned…

Subway Shooting Came Amid ‘Record’ NYPD Transit Cops

April 13, 2022
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New York City police investigate an incident on an Uptown 4 subway after an emergency brake was pulled near Union Square on April 12, 2022, in New York City. | Source: Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty There was an increased police presence in the New York City subway system following Tuesday’s shooting attack on a…

Black women are more burdened by student loan debt. Senator Warren says cancellation could solve it

April 13, 2022
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and policy advocates tell theGrio that $50,000 debt forgiveness could close the racial wealth gap and relieve millions of Black borrowers. The debate over canceling student loan debt is getting louder as an impasse continues in Washington about how many thousands of dollars in student debt to cancel. But there are also…

Inmate sues sheriff after his sister dies in Charlotte jail’s infirmary

April 13, 2022
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Francine Laney, 31, was found unresponsive in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center infirmary, and life-saving measures that were taken failed. North Carolina man Terry Laney, an inmate with 19 years left on a second-degree murder/firearms sentence, has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Garry McFadden, who leads the Mecklenburg County Detention Center in Charlotte. The convict’s…

Nevada Instructor’s Racist Gun Safety Jokes Draw Criticism

April 13, 2022
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Source: Twitter / Twitter So, here’s the thing—conservatives aren’t funny. When white people, especially white conservatives, try to tell race-related “jokes,” they’re not really telling jokes so much as they’re being blatantly racist and hiding behind, “Ok c’mon, it’s just a joke.” So when a firearm instructor in Nevada got on stage during a recent…

‘That Was the Best Advice I Had Ever Been Given’: Tia Mowry Shares What Her TV Dad Tim Reid Told Her When ‘Sister, Sister’ Ended

April 13, 2022
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Actress Tia Mowry recalled that the best advice she’d received in her early days of acting helped to shape her future, and came from her television dad and fellow actor Tim Reid. Reid played her father on the hit sitcom “Sister, Sister” on ABC for six seasons during the 1990s. Mowry starred in the sitcom…

‘Pastor Shirley’ is a film whose spiritual cup runneth over with abundance…of foolywang

April 13, 2022
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OPINION: The 2013 movie needs every prayer you can offer. Amen. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I recently watched Pastor Shirley—check it out on April 16 and April 30 on TheGrio TV and TheGrio app—and I have so many questions; I want…