Jamaica’s prime minister and descendants of the country’s indigenous people are at odds over the community’s political status. The Maroons, the descendants of Jamaica’s first enslaved Africans and Taino Indians, believe they are a sovereign state. Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness rejecting the claims has barred the country’s funding to the community, initiating a war…
Political differences aside, Dems are looking to come together for the next Supreme Court nomination Democrats in Congress have fractured repeatedly over President Joe Biden‘s agenda, stalling legislation and creating an atmosphere of mistrust that has made it increasingly difficult for progressives and centrists to work together. But one area where the party has not…
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry created quite the stir on social media after a romantic photo with her boyfriend Van Hunt at the altar had fans convinced she and her new beau had tied the knot. The 55-year-old is now clarifying precisely what led to the derailed New Year’s Day prank. During an appearing on…
Loni Love is also set to appear on this week’s episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” In the midst of major cast shakeups on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and the women of Beverly Hills taking off for their cast trip, theGrio is back with your reality roundup for the week. Garcelle Beauvais attends…
One board member appeared quite shaken over a parent’s use of a racial slur. A Grosse Pointe, Michigan mother went viral this week after using a racial slur during a school board meeting about diversity. The unidentified white woman went on a rant during Monday’s meeting about her son getting in trouble at Grosse Pointe…
Snowfall from Boston to Atlanta kicks off a frigid weekend People from New York City to Maine awakened Saturday to half a foot (15 centimeters) of snow, and forecasters warned that could more than quadruple as a powerful nor’easter kicked up blinding blizzard conditions with high winds and the potential for widespread power outages and…
Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Conservatives are trying to make anything stick to distract from the upcoming nomination of the nation’s first Black woman Supreme Court justice, bouncing from one talking point to the next. Some have pointed to 13 Democrats voting “no” on the confirmation of a Black woman Trump nominee for a federal…
Source: Megan Varner / Getty A Mother Jones analysis published Friday revealed that Georgia residents experienced a dramatic increase in mail-in ballot rejections during last year’s municipal elections—a development the report’s authors say is attributable to the state’s recently enacted Republican-led voter suppression law. According to reporters Ryan Little and Ari Berman: During municipal elections in November, Georgia voters…
Jordyn Woods wants to make it clear she’s not expecting. The model recently posted several photos of her in Portland and in a few photos she and her man Karl-Anthony Towns had gone into a Nike store. Most of the pictures were of her rocking a black jumpsuit and a matching set of Louis Vuitton…
Thomas Weidenmuller claims that Petty broke his jaw in an attack instigated by Minaj after a 2019 concert in Germany. Looks like Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty are headed back to court. The 10-time Grammy-nominated rapper and her husband are being sued after a security head claimed that Petty punched him — an attack instigated…
