“Immediately I’m already being prejudged that I’m doing something criminal or fraudulent, that they have to go and do all these extremes,” Ricardo M. Peters alleges of his treatment at a JPMorgan Chase branch A former Black financial advisor at JPMorgan Chase, who previously alleged racial discrimination against the banking giant, is taking the firm…
OPINION: How can America overcome its problems of systemic racism and police violence at home as it gives billions of dollars to Israel to maintain an oppressive apartheid system? Now is the time for President Joe Biden to speak out against apartheid in Israel, and for the U.S. to no longer support state-sanctioned violence and…
More questions remain regarding the death of Mikayla Miller, a 16-year-old queer Black teen who was found dead in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, on April 18. On May 21 Mikayla’s supporters plan to march to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office to call for her resignation and to pressure law enforcement to turn the case over to…
Claudia Jordan‘s remarks on Porsha Williams‘s engagement news on May 16 have fans side-eyeing the 48-year-old and bringing up her past with Williams’ ex-husband Kordell Stewart. In the latest episode of “Tea-G-I-F” alongside Al Reynolds and Funky Dineva, Jordan condemned the Dish Nation co-host’s relationship with her supposed friend Falynn Guobadia’s estranged husband, Simon Guobadia. Jordan said…
Former NBA player Lamar Odom may soon find himself inside a courtroom with his former girlfriend, Liza Morales, after she claimed Odom ceased child support payments in the summer of last year. Page Six reported that the “Basketball Wives” star filed a lawsuit on Thursday, May 13, in Manhattan Supreme Court, alleging that “in June 2020,…
OPINION: Robbing students of color of critical race theory would increase the likelihood that they struggle in a world where the odds are stacked against them “Wall Street didn’t build this country. The middle class built the country, and unions built the middle class,” President Joe Biden said in his recent address to a joint session of…
Joel Greenberg, a longtime associate of Gaetz, pleaded guilty to six of the nearly three dozen charges he faced, including sex trafficking of a minor A Florida politician who emerged as a central figure in the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz pleaded guilty Monday to six federal charges and agreed to…
Cole put up three points, three rebounds and two assists Sunday as a shooting guard for the Rwanda Patriots. As his brand new album, The Off-Season, was getting critical and fan acclaim on social media, rapper J. Cole was in Rwanda making his debut playing with the Basketball Africa League. Cole put up three points,…
Exclusive: “Black queer men are invisible (in media) in a lot of ways, Black queer fathers particularly…the podcast is to make legible that which societal forces have rendered invisible for so long,” Moore told theGrio. Darnell Moore is promising a journey. The award-winning author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and…
The young man who gained national attention for landing an interview with then-President Barack Obama in 2009 has died at the age of 23. Damon Weaver was only 11 years old when he sat down with President Obama on August 11, 2009, to chat about issues that were important to the children of America. During…
