One of the biggest nights in fashion and fundraising took place Monday, May 2, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. There were plenty of A-list celebrity sightings before and after the highly anticipated annual event. Among those in attendance was daytime television talk show host Wendy Williams, who made…
A white woman is under fire after allegedly slapping a Black boy and calling him the n-word because the fast-food restaurant where he worked was out of her favorite food. “It’s been a traumatic experience as it would be with anyone,” Ronald ‘Skip’ Kelly said of his client, the 17-year-old assaulted amid a racist tirade…
A Pew Research Center report shows that 12% of adult Latinos align with the designation About 6 million adults in the United States identify as Afro Latino, a distinction with deep roots in colonial Latin America, according to a new report by Pew Research Center. That’s about 2% of the adult U.S. population and 12%…
Political observers say Black voters will be flooded in the lead-up to the November midterm elections The midterm elections won’t take place until November but misinformation targeting Black voters is expected to intensify in the coming months. As reported by NBC News, members of Congress have been warned by political experts that voters of color…
The farewell tour for the singer/director will hit 19 cities, including Las Vegas, Miami, and Boston. Teyana Taylor is returning to the stage this summer. The singer/director announced the second leg of The Last Rose Petal…The Farewell Tour, after which she says she will retire from performing. For The Last Rose Petal 2, Taylor will…
The former Miss North Carolina was crowned Miss USA in May 2019 The mother of Cheslie Kryst will join Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris at the red table on Wednesday to talk about her daughter’s Jan. 30 suicide. As reported by PEOPLE, in the May 4 episode of Pinkett Smith’s Red Table…
Young Thug has some strong beliefs about people in low-income communities who decide to become parents. While sitting in the studio, the Atlanta-based rapper went on a rant about how he feels there should be a rule to ban “broke” people from creating families. In a clip that has since been circling social media, Thugger,…
The Balvenie Fellowship will be offered at the University of Arts’ Ph.D. Program in Creativity. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is partnering with the University of Arts Ph.D. program in Philadelphia to create scholarships for creatives. The Grammy and Academy Award-winner linked up with Dr. Jonathan Fineberg, the director of the Ph.D. Program in Creativity, to design…
OPINION: The GOP’s opposition to student debt relief is just the latest example of white America’s hypocrisy on the policies that created their economic advantage. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Hey Michael, I heard that you were some kind of ecologist who…
Another day, another chapter in the developing drama surrounding NIL deals. This time it was about a player feeling his NIL compensation wasn’t on par with an incoming transfer to his team. So now we have battles in practice for starting positions and players compete and catch feelings about who’s getting the bigger bag to attend…
