A Kentucky nonprofit that provides outreach to marginalized communities was recently the recipient of a “six-figure donation” of “reparations” from a white donor who discovered their great-grandfather owned slaves. The benefactor received a considerable windfall of wealth upon their 25th birthday, which prompted them to investigate their family history to discover from whom the money…

“We never thought anything like this would ever happen there,” said Myeni’s wife, Lindsay Lindsay Myeni and her South African husband moved to Hawaii, where she grew up, believing it would be safer to raise their two Black children here than in another U.S. state. Three months after they arrived, Honolulu police shot and killed…

Former “Braxton Family Values” reality diva Tamar Braxton is in better spirits these days and especially so more recently as she celebrates her son Logan Herbert turning eight. Braxton treated her son Logan, born on June 6, 2013, to a nice dinner, as shown in a video she uploaded on his eighth birthday. “Where’s the…

“By dooming our democracy in the name of bipartisanship, Senator Manchin is betraying both,” said Rep. Mondaire Jones. In an effort to promote bipartisan collaboration, Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, has incited the ire of many in his own party, including New York Rep. Mondaire Jones. Manchin, the West Virginia senator, wrote a piece for…

Star and series creator Michaela Coel championed her intimacy director, Ita O’Brien, saying her help was “essential” to the successful show. Michaela Coel’s BBC/HBO series I May Destroy You took home two BAFTA TV Awards this weekend after a year of critical acclaim. As theGrio previously reported, I May Destroy you was a critical success…

The National Football League announced last week that it is ending a medical evaluation practice that made it difficult for Black retirees to be compensated for cognitive damage suffered as a result of playing pro football. In a statement on Wednesday, June 2, the NFL announced that it would no longer use “race-norming.” The controversial…

Controversy surrounding the problematic use of Native cultural imagery in American society is nothing new. Gov. Steve Sisolak makes state law clear. Steve Sisolak, the Democratic governor of Nevada, signed a law Friday that will require its schools to change “any name, logo, mascot, song or identifier” that has any racially discriminatory undertones, any association…

“So comical people saying she has anxiety in public and that’s why he touches her,” said Knowles-Lawson of her famous daughter and son-in-law. Many on social media have long commented about Jay-Z’s love of Beyonce’s leg. Time and time again, the couple is pictured sitting side by side, with him holding onto his wife’s limb…

Many fans on Instagram flooded Lil Durk’s latest post with messages of condolences. According to Cook Country officials, OTF DThang, the older brother of rapper Lil Durk, was found dead in Chicago over the weekend. Authorities have not determined an official cause of death, but multiple reports claim he was shot outside of a nightclub…

A Rhode Island district court judge rejected a woman’s request for disorderly conduct and hate crime charges against her to be dismissed during her trial on Thursday, June 3, disagreeing with her attorney’s assertion that the racist rant she hurled at a Black man vacationing with his family last year is protected by the First…