Actress Regina King made her directorial debut this year with the critically acclaimed “One Night in Miami.” The film explores a fictional conversation shared between Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and NFL great Jim Brown in 1964 — just as America was laying the blueprint for a pivotal Civil Rights Act that brought an end to…
Source: SisterSong On Wednesday reproductive rights activists unveiled a mobile billboard in front of the Louisville Metro Police Department’s headquarters, honoring Breonna Taylor ahead of the one-year anniversary of her death. The billboard is imposed with a tweet from Taylor where she shared her hopes of one day having a child. “My daughter hasn’t even…
‘Don’t try and cry because if anyone should be crying, it should be me,’ Osbourne warned her co-host on ‘The Talk.’ Britons are apparently breaking down. Television host Piers Morgan stormed off the set of ITV’s Good Morning Britain Tuesday morning after being called to task about controversial comments he made about Meghan Markle. The next…
theGrio’s White House correspondent recalled her experience taking the coronavirus vaccine in a day-by-day, personal journal My journey began when I received a phone number from a friend to call for one of the shots administered at the large-scale vaccine sites in my area. I qualified for the COVID-19 vaccine through eligibility granted to certain…
An Arkansas kindergarten teacher is on administrative leave pending an investigation after she allegedly made a 5-year-old student dig feces out of a toilet last week. Ashley Murry, mother of the child, who attends Crystal Hill Elementary School in Little Rock, is calling for the teacher to be terminated and seeking legal action. “It’s degrading…
If Kandi Burruss’ doesn’t have anything else, she sure does have some beautiful babies. On Wednesday, March 10, the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star uploaded several snaps to her Instagram account of her two youngest children, 5-year-old son Ace Wells and 1-year-old daughter Blaze Tucker. Blaze Tucker, Ace Wells Tucker. @kandi/Instagram Throughout the gallery of photos,…
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill added the charge after the former officer, Derek Chauvin, failed to get appellate courts to block it A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill added the charge after…
The AP-NORC poll found about 30% of African Americans and Hispanics know someone who died from the virus, compared with 15% of white people About 1 in 5 Americans say they lost a relative or close friend to the coronavirus, highlighting the division between heartache and hope as the country itches to get back to…
Reports say the woman, who has not been named, was alone with Cuomo late last year when he closed the door, reached under her shirt and fondled her An aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he groped her in the governor’s residence, a newspaper reported Wednesday, in the most serious allegation made yet…
“You ain’t deserve the way they done you.” Rapper Obe Noir was shot and killed in his hometown of Houston on Monday. Noir was a noted activist who had actively advocated for nationwide change in policing after the death of George Floyd whom he knew since childhood. Born Xavier Robinson, Obe Noir was known for…
