‘COVID-19 has demonstrated what happens when there’s a pandemic and when communities are disproportionately impacted,’ Turner said at an event featuring Black mayors Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said cities need to do more to change systemic inequities that have become exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and pointed to his city’s COVID-19 relief programs for businesses…
Comedian Sheryl Underwood is reflecting on her heated dispute about racism with her co-host Sharon Osbourne during the Wednesday, March 10, episode of “The Talk.” Underwood has since appeared on several platforms to discuss the situation. According to the latest two-part episode of her podcast “The World According to Sheryl,” the actress isn’t ruffled by the incident…
In the lawsuits, two of the women claim that Watson touched them with his penis during massages, and the third alleges he forced her to perform oral sex The NFL said Thursday that it was investigating allegations that Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson sexually assaulted multiple women after three massage therapists filed lawsuits against the…
‘So crazy how someone can make fake screenshots and send it to blogs,’ she noted on Twitter, ‘and y’all believe it.’ On Twitter, model/actress Jordyn Woods recently addressed rumors that her boyfriend, NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns, had cheated on her. “People really be praying on your downfall,” Woods wrote in her first tweet, followed by: “So…
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has announced it will conduct a review of 370 cases involving a retired LAPD detective after he was seen on video hurling racial slurs at a young Black man. The retired detective who has not been identified, used multiple racial insults in an argument with a Black man following…
‘There’s this assumption of sexuality and fetishization of Asian women’s bodies that is unique to this kind of crime,’ says organizer Esther Kao Seven of the eight people killed were women; six were of Asian descent. The suspect, according to police, appeared to blame his actions on a “sex addiction.” While the U.S. has seen…
EXCLUSIVE: Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan dismisses Amanda Chase’s comments about her role in the legislative Black caucus as ‘rooted in white supremacy’ In an exclusive interview with theGrio, Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan is speaking out after becoming the subject of a racist attack on the Virginia gubernatorial campaign trail this week. “It is…
Wearing a hijab and holding up a Quran with her right hand, the 61-year-old Hassan took the oath of office at the government offices in Dar es Salaam Samia Suluhu Hassan made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president after the death of her controversial predecessor, John Magufuli, who denied…
The commission’s vote came after pleas to boot Nathan Bedford Forrest’s bust from the capitol building went up. Just weeks after its vote to move a bust of Ku Klux Klan leader from the state capitol to the state museum, a Republican lawmaker in Tennessee wants members of a historical commission created to evaluate monuments…
On a near party-line 228-197 vote Thursday, lawmakers approved one bill offering legal status to around 2 million ‘Dreamers’ The House has voted to unlatch a gateway to citizenship for young “Dreamers,” migrant farm workers and immigrants who have fled war or natural disasters, giving Democrats wins in the year’s first votes on an issue…
