A South Carolina fire chief has been relieved of his duties after sharing a racially insensitive post on social media suggesting that cops stop responding to calls from Black residents.  Francis “Butch” Ghent of the McDonald Green Volunteer Fire Department has been placed on a two-week leave following a post he wrote on his Facebook…

“I should have spoken out more, but back then if you spoke out, people wouldn’t work with you,” Campbell admitted. Naomi Campbell is known for walking the walking and telling it like it is, but now, she wishes she would have been more outspoken earlier in her career, especially in regards to racism. The supermodel recently…

Dickinson High School teacher Howard Zlotkin targeted his Black students and used profanity as he complained about his ‘privilege’ A New Jersey teacher has been removed from the virtual classroom after going a profanity-laced rant against his students about race, Black Lives Matter and George Floyd. Dickinson High School teacher Howard Zlotkin was instructing a…

The topic of ownership in the music industry has blown up in the past two decades as more artists seek to control use of their creative works. Music producer Pharrell Williams is one of many artists who have voiced concerns about how the industry profits from the work of artists while oftentimes leaving creators with nothing…

“Ahmaud is the last thing I think about every night and the first thing I think about each morning,” Wanda Cooper-Jones, mother of Ahmaud Arbery recently told CNN.  Ahmaud Arbery’s mother has reached an agreement out of court with the 2:23 Foundation after an ongoing dispute.  As theGrio reported last May, supporters of Ahmaud Arbery, who was ambushed…

“Why I didn’t have a lawsuit against the WNBA and him personally I have no idea why,” said Leslie. Lisa Leslie is speaking out on TV One’s UNCENSORED and she is not holding back. The basketball legend opened up about her regret of not suing the WNBA and meeting her father for the first time. Sitting in a…

Tennessee State University could be seeing a considerable payout after the state allegedly failed to match millions of dollars in grant funding, News Channel 5 Nashville reported.  When TSU was founded in June 1912, the federal government placed the historically Black college and the University of Tennessee (UT) on a land grant program. The specific…

The couple paid a virtual visit to 900 students at Denny International Middle School in Seattle Ciara and Russell Wilson are using their platform to give back. According to a recent report, the celebrity couple surprised Seattle students with their very own savings account. Per The Seattle Times, the Wilsons paid a virtual visit to…

Now that states are opening up at rapid pace in spite of a pandemic, some of the perils of the world we left behind continue to spring up. That includes a slew of racially charged incidents, some of which occur in the form of ‘promproposals,” where high school students take grandiose gestures to extend an…