New details suggest that an off-duty police officer in North Carolina who shot and killed an unarmed Black man over the weekend under questionable circumstances didn’t need to use lethal force — or any force at all — even though the contents of his 911 call show he was determined to use his gun. Cumberland…
“I want to do everything I can do before I can’t anymore,” Brandy tells theGrio’s Gerren Keith Gaynor. Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter and actress Brandy has been entertaining audiences for the better part of 30 years. The 42-year-old has sold over 40 million records worldwide, toured around the world, and famously starred as America’s first Black…
The “Bruised” actor/director wrote about how one of Poitier’s films reached her in a profound way. Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Halle Berry was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. Berry not only saw a connection with Poitier, but…
Michael B. Jordan commemorated Lori Harvey‘s upcoming birthday earlier this week by throwing a surprise party for his leading lady. The model, who turns 25 on Jan. 13, uploaded a series of photos and videos from the event on her Instagram Story. Lori Harvey’s boyfriend Michael B. Jordan throws a surprise party for the model…
Not only was Dickerson the first Black man to win the title, he was also the first openly gay Mr. Olympia. Chris Dickerson, who rose to fame in the fitness industry, becoming the first Black Mr. America and the first openly gay man to be Mr. Olympia, died last month at the age of 82. …
The suspect wanted in the shooting and killing of rapper Young Dolph a week before last Thanksgiving has been captured following a manhunt. In a statement released on Tuesday, Jan. 11, the U.S. Marshals announced that they had successfully arrested Justin Johnson in Indiana. The 23-year-old is wanted in connection to the shooting death of…
Here’s a question: How many reports have to come out about white students getting in trouble over their racist-as-hell “promposal” signs before they stop trying it? Because report after report after report after report after report has told the same exact story: A clear-complected caucasified high school or middle school student thinks writing slavery or…
OPINION: A hip-hop headline seemingly pulled out of 1994 has me saying, “say heffa, say what?” in 2022. Have you ever been reading an article that seems straight out of a time capsule, so much so that you check the date to make sure that whoever runs the site didn’t publish an archived article to…
It’s always nice to be the groundbreaker. The world needs these people. The ones who will go in a different direction when everyone else is following the pack. These individuals usually garner the majority of the attention whether it’s good or bad. And history usually makes them the focal point of the story. That’s the…
Source: SOPA Images / Getty One thing to know about right-wingers is that their claims that they are advocates for free speech are as fraudulent as their understanding of what Critical Race Theory actually is. In fact, one needn’t look any further than the propaganda-driven conservative war on CRT to understand that, despite how they…
