OPINION: Following his same-sex kiss at the BET Awards, the popular gay rapper has people in their feelings again. God doesn’t like ugly, and many of y’all are acting ugly AF right now. There was a time when I used to have sophisticated ways to react to blatant homophobia and transphobia whenever LGBTQIA people were…
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby‘s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. BREAKING: PA Supreme Court overturns Bill Cosby’s conviction. Orders his release.https://t.co/eQat6K1nhD pic.twitter.com/BFhcm92MX5 — Jeremy Roebuck (@jeremyrroebuck) June 30, 2021 NBC and MSNBC news anchor Craig…
Cosby has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. Cosby has served more than two years of a three-…
A 21-year-old man is currently being held without bond in a Volusia County jail after he was arrested for pointing a gun at a Black family in traffic, unprovoked. The victims, a Black mother, father, and their two children under the age of 12, told Volusia County deputies that on Sunday, June 27, a stranger…
Source: milan2099 / Getty Working from home can be a blessing or a curse depending on who you ask. In normal times, working from home can lead to decreased stress and provide a greater work-life balance. But working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has its own challenges. Two recent reports indicate that work from…
EXCLUSIVE: The first Black administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Michael Regan will travel to Wisconsin and Michigan to engage communities on their water infrastructure challenges and progress. White House officials exclusively told theGrio that removing lead from water infrastructure will be a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration as the president sells his American Jobs…
The Senate’s 45-21 vote followed a 75-59 vote in the Minnesota House, and it came on the heels of last week’s sentencing of Derek Chauvin The Minnesota Senate approved a modest set of police accountability measures early Wednesday that’s part of a broader public safety budget bill, as the state’s divided Legislature put itself on…
Omar Neal, a nephew of one of Tuskegee men, said he agreed to appear in the national campaign after doing research to gain confidence in the vaccines Tuskegee is the one-word answer some people give as a reason they’re avoiding COVID-19 vaccines. A new ad campaign launched Wednesday with relatives of men who unwittingly became…
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige says filming has been emotional without Chadwick Boseman, but will “make Chad proud.” Be ready to go back to Wakanda! The highly anticipated Black Panther sequel, titled Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, has officially begun filming in Atlanta. As TheGrio has previously reported, the follow-up to the 2018 blockbuster has been…
Source: SOPA Images / Getty Republicans are waging a culture war on Black people; queer people; and Black, queer people. In more recent attacks, Republican state officials are trying to ban anti-racist tenets in schools and legalize discrimination against transgender people, namely trans children. These ploys are designed with a single purpose: to stifle racial…
