The reality TV star came under fire last week after racist social media posts from the fall of 2020 resurfaced on the internet. Jennie Nguyen is officially a one-season real housewife. A week after her racist social media posts resurfaced on social media, Bravo officially fired Nguyen while shooting the show’s third season. As TheGrio…
When ESPN “Get Up” host Domonique Foxworth was asked on Tuesday if the 49ers could win the Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo as the starter, he responded with an answer that almost made co-host Jeff Saturday fall out of his chair. As the backup QB, yeah. I think they need to go Trey Lance,” Foxworth said, already…
The pop star’s four-part documentary series premieres this weekend on Lifetime. We are days away from the Janet Jackson documentary event on Lifetime, and new details from the project are starting to emerge. One big reveal is that Jackson opens up about her relationship with her brother Michael Jackson, shedding light on how his teasing…
A Jackson lookalike was shown in a late 1960s photo of Dr. King, alleged to be the Oscar-nominated actor Just a few days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a photo of the late civil rights leader playing pool was posted online. While the image of the Nobel Peace Prize winner engaging in such…
Hyram Hill, 23, was shot and killed around 4:38 a.m. on Monday, according to the city district attorney’s office. Authorities in Philadelphia are looking for the two people they say fatally shot the adult son of a city police officer during an alleged robbery attempt that took place early Monday morning. Hyram Hill, 23, was…
Tiffany Haddish opened up about her recent DUI arrest while virtually appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” The “Girls Trip” star was arrested under suspicion of DUI in Fayette County, Georgia, on Jan. 14, after Peachtree City Police Department officers received a 911 call about a driver falling asleep behind the wheel. Tiffany Haddish opens…
Jamaican immigrant and father-to-be Peter Bernardo Spencer was shot nine times on a Pennsylvania camping trip last month. When 29-year-old Peter Bernardo Spencer accepted an invitation to hang out at a rural cabin belonging to a former coworker, his family never fathomed that they would never see him alive again. The Jamaican immigrant and father-to-be…
Controversial body camera and surveillance video have been released showing what happened leading up to the death of 17-year-old Black foster child Cedric Lofton, who died after being taken to a Wichita, Kansas, juvenile detention center last fall. Videos show the boy becoming unresponsive after being held face down and in handcuffs by adults for…
The William Hall Academy in Prince George’s County is home to a new mural paying tribute to the Underground Railroad. When the students of William Hall Academy walk into their school, they have a beautiful reminder that past is prologue. The K-8th grade school in Capitol Heights, Md. is now home to a mural paying…
AUP EP#37 TRANSCRIPT Transcribed: Cameron Blackwell Completed: 1/25/21 Cortney Wills: [00:00:03] Hello and welcome to Acting Up the podcast that dives deep into the world of TV and film that highlights our people, our culture and our stories. I’m your host, Cortney Wills, Entertainment Director at theGrio. And this week we’re sitting down with Tabitha…
