Talk show host Wendy Williams has turned up in a video released this week that apparently depicts her leaving a Miami health care facility in Miami. Wednesday’s video emerged against the backdrop of weeks of rumors of the deterioration of Williams’ health and career. Williams seemed fine enough to walk and was questioned by a…
Neither will appeal their three-game suspensions. Antonio Brown and two other NFL players have been suspended immediately for three games without pay by the league for violating COVID-19 protocols. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver and his teammate Mike Edwards were suspended Thursday. Free agent John Franklin III, if signed by a team, is also…
Mike Moffitt and Gladys Hankerson, who began a 20-year friendship by accident, met for the first time in Florida last week. An elderly Black woman who was trying to call a relative but kept dialing the wrong number has finally met the white man with whom she developed an accidental friendship decades ago. Gladys Hankerson…
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Sean “Diddy” Combs became the hip-hop mogul we recognized him as today by branching outside of music to develop businesses in fields like philanthropy, spirits, media production, fragrance and most notably fashion. One major source of the empire was his pioneering namesake label Sean John, which at the moment is…
Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty A number of Black policymakers are gearing up their campaigns in hopes of winning big in the 2022 governor elections in New York, Massachusetts, and Atlanta. Since former governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts retired in 2015, there have been no Black governors in office. According to Pew Research, there…
The city of Montgomery, Alabama, is facing a large fine after the city changed a street named for Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. The former Jeff Davis Avenue is now Fred D. Gray Avenue after being renamed in late October with backing by city officials, including Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed,…
After being detained overseas, singer Ari Lennox is updating her fans about her arrest. It seems that the Dreamville R&B singer is no longer in custody and is having a better day than previously reported. Lennox took to her Twitter to let her supporters know that all is well with her. She tweeted on Thursday,…
EXCLUSIVE: Stacey Johnson-Batiste tells theGrio that Vice President Harris “was always a leader.” No one knows you like a childhood best friend. Vice President Kamala Harris’ bestie Stacey Johnson-Batiste has written a candid tribute to her friend that traces the origins and evolution of two women and a friendship still going strong after five decades. …
The Court of Appeal in London upheld a High Court ruling that found Mail On Sunday breached Markle’s privacy when it published her letter to her dad. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, was again victorious in a lawsuit against the British tabloid Mail On Sunday, which published a letter she wrote to her father…
Lawmakers bemoaned the short-term fix and blamed the opposing party for the lack of progress on this year’s spending bills. The Senate passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates. The measure now goes…
