Protests for social in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was also an inspiration for many medical schools to increase their outreach to diverse students. Black students are flocking to medical school at record-breaking numbers. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the 2021 school year started…
OPINION: If there’s one thing kids do for you, it’s teach you about yourself. Note: While this Friday column was called Family Fridays for the first two volumes, I think Fatherhood Fridays is probably a bit more apropos and also sounds cooler, so somebody in heaven tell Sam Cooke that a change has, indeed, come….
Tamar Braxton sent shockwaves online on Thursday, Jan.27, after the “Love & War” singer uploaded two topless photos on her Instagram page. The theme behind Braxton’s post was one intended to encourage self-love. The 44-year-old, who wore a burgundy shirt accessorized with earrings and a necklace before the semi-nude shots, informed her followers in the…
Many celebrities have given their thoughts on cancel culture and now Snoop Dogg is putting his two cents in on the topic. In recent years, a phenomenon called cancel culture was created to initially make celebrities and people of higher power be held accountable for their transgressions. Some people, however, have misused cancel culture to…
Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty For the vast majority of America’s existence, white men represented the only demographic with access to literally anything. They were the only people, generally, who could access the economic power necessary to amass generational wealth. They were our doctors, professors, judges, police officers and business owners because they were the…
Source: Mario Tama / Getty On Jan. 8, 16-year-old Black girl Tioni Theus was found shot dead alongside a freeway in South Los Angeles. According to authorities, her body was found at the 110 Freeway on the Manchester Avenue onramp near South Figueroa Street and her family hadn’t seen her since the day before. Theus,…
Black Americans are estimated to have more than a trillion dollars in buying power in coming years, marking the highest amount of spendable cash they have ever wielded in U.S. history. Still, that money won’t necessarily translate into an opportunity to build wealth, experts told Finurah, adding that building wealth isn’t solely about having dollars…
Source: Twitter At the end of the day, politicians are public servants. But, of course, it’s hard to serve the public as an elected official without the proper understanding of the job at the center of the political campaign for which you’re running. That truth was personified and then some on Thursday when Herschel Walker,…
OPINION: The third edition of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Whose Heritage?’ project—which tracks the removal of Confederate memorials around the country—is set for release during Black History Month. The 2015 massacre of nine Black Americans during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., was sadly reminiscent of the 1963 white…
EXCLUSIVE: Sources described the nomination process to theGrio as more of a vetting than a search for candidates. So far, the National Bar Association has recommended only two potential nominees. Black organizations, members of Congress and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are said to be involved in the White House’s historic Black woman Supreme…
