“We’re shifting the paradigm, we’re Black men, but we are human first,” Archie Green said who’s the founder of Peel Back Dem Layers, a Cleveland, Ohio, nonprofit designed to help Black male youth with their mental health. Archie, 36, says he was diagnosed with depression and uses his platform as a hip-hop artist to share…
Biden has pledged to name the first Black woman to the high court Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday. Breyer, 83, has been a pragmatic force on…
“58 percent of the individuals that we vaccinated were from minority populations, which really shows that outreach and engagement made a big difference,” says FEMA’s Deanne Criswell Free COVID-19 test kits are starting to arrive in the mail this week after people began ordering them from the government’s official website. Next up, pharmacies will began…
Boston Red Sox’s “Big Papi” was voted in on his first ballot, but Bonds and Sammy Sosa were shut out. Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz — the designated hitter and first baseman also known as “Big Papi” — has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, his very first year of eligibility. Having…
4.0 student Kenyari Sawyer has been accepted into 48 colleges and received over $600K in scholarships Kenyari Sawyer is truly #BlackGirlMagic. After applying to close to 100 schools, the Albany, Ga. native has been received over $600,000 in college scholarships. Despite being a 4.0 student at Monroe Comprehensive High School, Sawyer actually feared she wasn’t…
Transcribed by: Sydney Henriques-Payne Completion date: January 26, 2022 Gerren Keith Gaynor: [00:00:03] Welcome to Dear Culture, the podcast that gives you news you can trust for the culture. I’m your co-host, Gerren Keith Gaynor, Managing Editor of Politics and Washington Correspondent at theGrio, [00:00:13][10.1] Shana Pinnock: [00:00:13] and I’m your co-host Shana Pinnock, social…
If there is one role everybody knows LisaRaye McCoy from, its Diamond from the movie “The Players Club.” McCoy brought the character to life in 1998, telling the story of a single mother who had to work as a stripper to pay for college. Not only did she have to care for her child, she…
Bridgeport Police finally launching criminal investigation into last month’s death of Smith-Fields after family calls out “accidental” ruling. The Bridgeport Police Department is finally opening a criminal investigation into the death of 23-year-old influencer Lauren Smith-Fields. The probe comes as as result of Monday’s announcement by Connecticut’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner that Smith-Fields…
One doesn’t necessarily need to be white in order to be racist, therefore one doesn’t need to be a white woman to be a Karen. If you’re Black in America, there’s a likelihood that you’ve been followed around grocery stores, bodegas, department stores and the like by racists of multiple races because, unfortunately, anti-Blackness is…
Nearly two months after Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was found dead in her apartment after meeting a Bumble date, police launched a criminal investigation into how she died. Bridgeport police announced a criminal investigation the morning of Jan. 25, hours after the chief state medical examiner ruled Smith-Fields’ death an accidental overdose caused…
