Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty Baltimore may regain local control over the city’s police department after 160 years of state control. A new bill could shift power over the agency after city leaders agreed on the transition process. The Baltimore Sun reported the legislation proposes an advisory board comprising 17-members, including the mayor, city solicitor,…
The president travels to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to unveil what would be a hard-hatted transformation of the U.S. economy as grand in scale as the New Deal President Joe Biden wants $2 trillion to reengineer America’s infrastructure and expects the nation’s corporations to pay for it. The president travels to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to unveil what would…
Source: Buyenlarge / Getty Hailed by many as historic, President Joe Biden’s first list of judicial nominees brings needed balance to the federal judiciary in multiple ways. Out of the 11 nominees, nine are women. Four Black women made the list of judicial nominees, including former public defenders and civil rights attorneys, showing Biden has…
Nash reveals she ‘never doubted for one second’ that her mother loves her Niecy Nash opened up her mother’s reaction to her surprise marriage in an exclusive clip from the latest episode of Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch. The actress and comedian sat down with hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris on the premiere…
It’s bad enough that Lizzo has been accused of stealing samples for her 2016 album “Coconut Oil,” but where she allegedly stole them from has fans in disbelief. The Grammy Award-winning performer is being sued by Orlandus Dunning, a Detroit resident and Church of God In Christ elder, who claims that the bits of audio…
EXCLUSIVE: USPS mail delivery has reverted to a system that is inconsistent and unreliable — leaving people wondering when they will get prescriptions, checks and even tax returns by mail. Today theGrio poses a rhetorical question, and that is what’s up with the mail? The United States Postal Service is in crisis. Mail delivery at the…
A Georgia State Patrol lieutenant who arrested a state lawmaker for knocking on the door of Gov. Brian Kemp’s office while he signed a controversial elections bill into law last week said he feared the representative’s actions would spark a repeat of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Lt. G.D. Langford said he was worried…
Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk from the coronavirus Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall….
Genevieve Hansen described her desperation Tuesday as she recounted how she was unable to come to Floyd’s aid A Minneapolis firefighter who wept as she recalled being prevented from using her EMT training to help George Floyd will be back on the stand Wednesday in the trial of the fired police officer charged in Floyd’s…
The changes apply to the Olympic trials, not the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which is run by the International Olympic Committee. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has announced it will not sanction athletes who show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement through actions like raising of fists or kneeling during Olympic trials….
