Two Texas officers stopped a man leaving a 7-11 in the suburban Dallas-Fort Worth area, claiming he broke a parking law. The man, a retired Black veteran and police academy graduate, not only proved the officers were wrong in their assessment and had no probable cause to approach him but videotaped the incident so the…
Norman C. Francis was Xavier’s first Black and first lay president and the second African American president of a Catholic university in the United States. A Jesuit university in New Orleans has renamed its newest residence hall after its first Black graduate, his late wife, and their family. Norman C. Francis graduated from the law school at…
Lupita Nyong’o showed off her dancing skills in a recent Instagram post that received over 400,000 likes. The 39-year-old actress strutted her stuff as she danced to the song “Cute” by South African musician Moonchild Sanelly and musical artist Trillary Banks. Lupita wore shades as she danced in various bathing suits of different colors to…
Jefferson was hailed as a ”true hero” by contemporaries and Detroit leaders. Alexander Jefferson, a revered former colonel for the Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first all-Black squadron of military pilots, has died at 100. Jefferson, a Detroit native, joined the fleet in 1944 after graduating from pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field, the Detroit Free…
Source: Emily Elconin / Getty Michigan Legislative Black Caucus kept it a buck in its response to the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturning the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women Health Organization. “This is some bullshit,” read the statement’s first line. Denying women the right to control their own body and to…
Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman says the museum is complying with law enforcement The FBI raided a Florida art museum on Friday and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman Emilia Bourmas-Fry said in a statement that they were complying with…
“Take the polling results with a grain of salt,” Nsé Ufot, CEO of New Georgia Project, told theGrio. As the Senate race in Georgia heats up, a recent poll shows that U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican football legend Herschel Walker are deadlocked. According to a poll conducted by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey…
Baseball remains one of the least racially diverse college sports Anthony Holman is the highest-ranking NCAA official at the College World Series and the man in charge of the Division I baseball championship. Holman is Black, and when he watches the games, he doesn’t see many people who look like him on the field or…
Pfizer says changes to its COVID-19 vaccine recipe can better target the variant Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection…
President Joe Biden says gun law tightening background checks for young buyers “a historic achievement” President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. “Time is…
