A Charleston, South Carolina, woman and her daughter are suing Uber following a terrifying ride during which their driver hurled racial slurs toward them both, drove erratically, and refused to let them out of the car. South Carolina native Jovene Milligan, a 52-year-old administrative assistant at the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, and her daughter were…
“McDonald’s takes billions from African American consumers and gives almost nothing back,” Byron Allen said. Media mogul Byron Allen is suing McDonald’s for racial discrimination and is seeking $10 billion in damages. Allen Media Group divisions Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc. — parent owner of theGrio — and Weather Group, LLC filed a lawsuit on Thursday,…
“I’ve led a campaign for people to examine the long history of abuse that Teigen has directed at young women.” Black Twitter is coming for Candace Owens’ newly laid edges after she posted an op-ed to the Daily Wire website titled Why I Launched The Campaign Against Chrissy Teigen. Read More: Obama called Trump ‘racist,…
“If you are actively advising a politician in trouble while being an on-air host on a news network, that’s not okay,” said Columbia Journalism School professor Nicholas Lemann Critics are coming down hard on CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and the role he’s played regarding his brother’s sexual harassment accusations. It was recently revealed that the journalist advised…
Source: Radio One Digital / Radio One Digital The capital city of Virginia this week got one step closer to making the country’s first Black-owned casino a reality. Richmond recommended the ONE Casino + Resort to advance to a referendum on casino gaming during Election Day on Nov. 2, the city announced Thursday. The ONE…
EXCLUSIVE: Leaders and advocates say there is an underlying racist history tied to the American immigration system, one in which Black immigrants remain unseen and unheard. “Fundamentally Republicans believe there are brown people who are coming into this nation who vote Democratic,” according to an anonymous high-ranking political operative. The anonymous source tells theGrio the…
“Obama’s feelings are well-known, but have rarely been reported in such blunt detail.” If you’ve ever wondered what former President Barack Obama really has to say about former President Donald Trump behind closed doors, a new book claims to have the answer. According to reports, Edward-Isaac Dovere, a staff writer at the Atlantic, has a…
If you’ve ever wondered how the events of “Home Alone” would have played out had the hilarious series of events happened in the ‘hood, you may get that answer, thanks to Chance the Rapper. During his Friday, May 14 appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the rapper teased his plans of recreating the…
Last week a federal judge approved a $577 million settlement in a lawsuit over underfunding at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Maryland. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake announced the approved settlement on Wednesday, May 12, and said it adequately addressed what she previously described as “a dual and segregated education system” maintained by…
Daniel Warmus also allegedly played video footage he captured while inside the U.S. Capitol A New York man is now facing charges for participating in the January 6 Capitol riot in Washington DC after being overheard bragging about his involvement during an appointment at the dentist’s office. According to NBC News, a Department of Justice court document revealed…
