The shooting was a searing reminder of the city’s battle with gun violence and the specter of terror-like attacks that hangs over New York City As the year began, New Yorkers shuddered at a subway crime straight out of urban nightmares — the death of a woman shoved onto the tracks by a disturbed stranger. The city’s…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was extending the order, which was set to expire on April 18 The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is extending the nationwide mask requirement for public transit for 15 days as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Viola Davis is getting honest about her experience in Hollywood. In her upcoming memoir, the award-winning actress revealed that the industry didn’t think she was pretty enough to portray the prominent criminal defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating on the hit ABC-TV series “How to Get Away with Murder.” It’s a role that earned…
New York City police investigate an incident on an Uptown 4 subway after an emergency brake was pulled near Union Square on April 12, 2022, in New York City. | Source: Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty There was an increased police presence in the New York City subway system following Tuesday’s shooting attack on a…
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Elizabeth Warren and policy advocates tell theGrio that $50,000 debt forgiveness could close the racial wealth gap and relieve millions of Black borrowers. The debate over canceling student loan debt is getting louder as an impasse continues in Washington about how many thousands of dollars in student debt to cancel. But there are also…
Francine Laney, 31, was found unresponsive in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center infirmary, and life-saving measures that were taken failed. North Carolina man Terry Laney, an inmate with 19 years left on a second-degree murder/firearms sentence, has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Garry McFadden, who leads the Mecklenburg County Detention Center in Charlotte. The convict’s…
Source: Twitter / Twitter So, here’s the thing—conservatives aren’t funny. When white people, especially white conservatives, try to tell race-related “jokes,” they’re not really telling jokes so much as they’re being blatantly racist and hiding behind, “Ok c’mon, it’s just a joke.” So when a firearm instructor in Nevada got on stage during a recent…
Actress Tia Mowry recalled that the best advice she’d received in her early days of acting helped to shape her future, and came from her television dad and fellow actor Tim Reid. Reid played her father on the hit sitcom “Sister, Sister” on ABC for six seasons during the 1990s. Mowry starred in the sitcom…
OPINION: The 2013 movie needs every prayer you can offer. Amen. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I recently watched Pastor Shirley—check it out on April 16 and April 30 on TheGrio TV and TheGrio app—and I have so many questions; I want…
Breonna Taylor’s image and likeness will fund and/or support the academic dreams of a select group of undergraduate and law students at the University of Louisville. The artist who painted a portrait of the 26-year-old is donating money from its sale to the institution, earmarking it for learners with an interest in social justice. The…
