Attorney Jennifer Bonjean and Bill Cosby speak outside of Cosby’s home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, hours after his release from prison on June 30. Source: Michael Abbott / Getty With his recently overturned conviction behind him, Bill Cosby‘s next legal battle is just weeks away. Using Cosby’s lawyer released a statement Tuesday sounding very confident in…
In July 2020, rapper Ice Cube unveiled a 22-page document titled A Contract with Black America as an effort to help combat racism and other social injustices Black people face in America. However, the rapper-turned-actor faced backlash after his initiative became a conduit for his collaboration with the Trump presidential campaign. More than half a…
The Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association has lost its fight to reinstate the former police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy, outside a Cleveland recreation center in 2014. In an announcement made on Tuesday, July 6, the Ohio Supreme Court said it would not consider the union’s latest appeal on behalf…
Waka Flocka and Tammy Rivera‘s daughter is becoming a young lady. On Saturday, July 3, Rivera posted a series of videos recapping her daughter Charlie Rivera celebrating her 16th birthday. The videos gave a sneak peek of Charlie in her beautiful gown, as well as the venue, which happened to be former “The Real Housewives…
They have been sentenced to juvenile detention until the age of 21. The two teen girls involved in the fatal carjacking of a Uber driver have been sentenced to juvenile detention until the age of 21. theGrio previously reported that the teenagers were charged in March after Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar, an immigrant who…
Rapper Iggy Azalea‘s latest visual efforts for her recent single “I Am the Stripclub” is garnering attention from critics for the wrong reasons. Following the release of the record on Friday, July 2, the Australian native debuted its video in which she appeared peculiarly bronzed, sporting a black wig, surrounded by dancers, several of whom…
“He was a baby, and I feel like Adventureland robbed me of my baby,” Sabrina Jaramillo, the mother of the 11-year-old son. A family is speaking out after the tragic loss of their child at an amusement park in Iowa. David and Sabrina Jaramillo recently opened up with ABC News about the incident that happened at…
Source: The Black Student Movement / Instagram.com/unc_bsm/ The University of North Carolina’s decision to initially deny Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, reverberated in an instant rebuke from the school’s Black students and faculty, who waged their collective voices against the establishment in order to evoke change. While Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and former alumnae of UNC will…
“Girl, you looks good, won’t you vax that thang up,” the new lyrics include. Rapper Juvenile has teamed up with artists Mannie Fresh and Mia X to help combat COVID-19 by releasing a new vaccine anthem remixing an old classic. BLK, a dating app for Black singles, joined forces with the artists to transform Juvenile’s…
“It was a bad batch of ecstasy,” The ‘Red Table Talk’ star said in a recent interview. Jada Pinkett Smith claims she was so high while filming The Nutty Professor that she passed out on set and the moment was a wake-up call. “I had one incident on Nutty Professor. I passed out. Makeup trailer,”…
