Robin Roberts attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) In a recent interview, Roberts shared how her wife, Amber Laign, helped her “unlearn” a previous attraction to toxicity. In a recent interview, Robin Roberts revealed how her wife, Amber Laign,…
Lynn Whitfield speaks on stage at 2019 ESSENCE Festival presented by Coca-Cola at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on July 7, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ESSENCE) Actress Lynn Whitfield stopped by theGrio to talk about her role in Showtime’s “The Chi”, her favorite character she’s played, and more. With…
Boxer Ryan Garcia has come under fire over using racial slurs and ill remarks about George Floyd during a recent social media rant, prompting former NBA player and friend of Floyd Stephen Jackson to take issue with his words. On Thursday, July 4, Ryan Garcia embarked on a rampage on Twitter Spaces in which he…
Source: NurPhoto / Getty Viral video footage of the white supremacist Patriot Front group marching this past weekend in Tennessee sparked outrage locally as well as a number of questions. But the clip also showed dozens of Patriot Front members pouring out of U-Haul trucks before they marched in downtown Nashville on Saturday afternoon. With…
Lisa Bonet (left) and Jason Momoa (right) arrive at the InStyle and Warner Bros. Golden Globes afterparty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in January 2020. The couple has now divorced, as of Tuesday. (Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, file) Bonet and Momoa, the actress and actor, were married for more than seven years and were a couple…
Tia Mowry’s foray into dating got off to a choppy start before she decided to step back and reassess what she wanted in a potential her new man. The actress revealed on the BET Awards blue carpet on June 30 that she was not currently entertaining potential suitors. But in a recent July 4 story…
LeBron James, of the Los Angeles Lakers, responds to a question from a reporter during training camp for the United States men’s basketball team on Saturday in Las Vegas. (Photo: Steve Marcus/AP) “She’s the best,” three-time Olympic medalist LeBron James said of Biles, the U.S. team’s dominant face. “It’s that simple. She’s the best.” LAS…
Viola Davis attends the Literacy Partners Evening of Readings and Gala Dinner at Pier Sixty on Monday, June 10, in New York. (Photo: Greg Allen/Invision/AP) It will be the first work of adult fiction for Davis, the Oscar-winning actress whose previous books include the memoir “Finding Me” and the picture story “Corduroy Takes a Bow.”…
Shannon Sharpe attends the 28th annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in May in New York. (Photo: CJ Rivera/Invision/AP) A Mississippi judge threw out the lawsuit in October, saying Sharpe used constitutionally protected speech on a sports broadcast when he criticized Favre’s connection to a welfare misspending case. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lawyers for…
A Manvel, Texas, woman said her two young boys suffered racist harassment for more than a year, including nooses displayed in her neighbor’s yard, but her complaints to local police went nowhere until a family member took the matter to the mayor’s office. Mayor Dan Davis said he was notified of the hateful incidents over…
