“I felt like I had to have the long hair and look like my character,” LisaRaye said. Actress LisaRaye McCoy said that she suffered from an “identity crisis” after playing the stripper Diamond in the 1998 film The Players Club. “I had an identity crisis after ‘Players Club’ because I felt like I had to…
The first all-female, all-Black Caribbean team to row across the Atlantic hopes to make history again in a new rowing challenge Team Antigua Island Girls rowed their way into the history books when they became the first all-female Caribbean team to complete the grueling Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, and the first all-Black team to row across the…
Owens’ family told reporters that he died in his sleep on Saturday following a period of declining health. Massachusetts’ first Black state senator Bill Owens died over the weekend at the age of 84, according to NBC Boston. He was 84. The political pioneer’s family told the station that he died in his sleep on…
Ivory Aquino recently appeared in ‘Tales of the City’ and ‘When We Rise’ Batgirl, the highly anticipated superhero film based on the character of the same name, just made a major casting announcement. The film will feature the first openly trans character to ever appear in a DC Comics film, with Ivory Aquino joining as…
A viral social media challenge today has users showing off their bands of money or lack thereof. And, for the past week, artists and entertainers including Yung Miami of City Girls, Lil Durk, Tami Roman, 50 Cent, Soulja Boy, and more have shared photos of themselves lying next to words spelled out in cash. Their…
Tioni Theus was last seen on Jan. 7, before leaving her father’s Compton home. Los Angeles County is considering contributing to a reward for information leading to the suspects involved in the killing of 16-year-old Tioni Theus, who was found dead on the side of 110 freeway earlier this month. The teen was last seen…
Denzel Washington recently admitted it was “too weird” watching his son, actor John David Washington, star in the sci-fi action thriller “Tenet.” While out doing press for his latest project, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” the Oscar-winning star opened up about his experience watching the Christopher Nolan-directed film at his private movie theater, which he noted…
The film was written and directed by Vigil Chime and stars Ijeoma Grace Agu, Kenneth Okolie and more Freestyle Digital Media has acquired The Touched One, a supernatural-horror drama set to debut on Video on Demand platforms this February. Freestyle Digital Media is a digital film distribution division of Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios, which also owns theGrio….
An investigation is underway to confirm what caused a deadly stampede during Africa’s biggest soccer tournament. At least eight people were killed and 38 injured in a stampede outside a stadium at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) match between Cameroon and Comoros Monday night. The incident took place as fans struggled to get into…
The black-ish costar partnered with Truth Check to combat vaccine misinformation online Award-winning actress, activist and black-ish star Jenifer Lewis is tired of the misinformation being directed toward the Black community. “The African-American community is being targeted,” Lewis told theGrio. “And it’s more important than ever that we know how to differentiate what’s fake from…
