A North Carolina teacher is being praised after raising over $100,000 to feed hungry students over the holiday break. Turquoise Lejeune Parker, a teacher at Lakewood Elementary in Durham, began seven years ago to collect donations during the holiday season in order to purchase items for care packages that includes food items students can eat…
The virus is spreading through the ranks of major league sports, resetting schedules and alarming teams, players and fans The Brooklyn Nets have enough players to fly to Los Angeles and play their Christmas showdown against the Lakers, though Kevin Durant might not be among them. Coach Steve Nash said Thursday that James Harden has…
Lil’ Kim has long been the target of mockery, primarily because of her ever-changing physical appearance, and Cardi’s fed up. Cardi B has had enough of trolls and haters coming for hip-hop queen Lil’ Kim. Kim has long been the target of mockery, primarily because of her ever-changing physical appearance. For years, fans have accused…
EXCLUSIVE: Precious Dreams Foundation founder Nicole Russell tells theGrio the goal is to offer kids a sense of stability during an otherwise difficult time of the year. Nicole Russell and her family learned first hand the challenges many kids face in the foster care system. The story in-depth isn’t for Russell to share but it…
The city was rebuilt by Black men, women, children and who were often worked to death The City of Atlanta’s official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn’t show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with slavery’s successor: convict labor, working in horrific conditions to break granite at…
Voting rights organizer and former state legislator Stacey Abrams is gearing up for a busy 2022 full of heavy campaigning to become Georgia’s next governor. She says race will be part of the campaign conversation, but she plans to “leverage race as a competitive edge” against her Republican opponent. Abrams could become the country’s first…
After almost six years since the music legend’s passing, his estate’s value has almost been decided, as well as who will benefit from it. Court officials are edging closer to dividing up the estate of late global superstar Prince. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday that November tax filings show the Internal Revenue Service and…
The crime drama about 80s crack dealers in Los Angeles was the most-watched show on FX this year Franklin Saint, Teddy McDonald and the rest of the Snowfall crew have unfinished business to settle when new episodes of the hit FX series returns in February. Season 5 of the crime drama — set in Los…
Most of its wooden schooner remains intact, including the pen used to imprison African captives across the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most of the wooden schooner remains intact,…
Family and friends searched for Sherell Pringle, 40, tracking her cellphone and eventually discovering her body. The boyfriend of a Massachusetts woman who was found dead in Saugus on Tuesday was arrested Wednesday night on charges of larceny over $1,200, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice. Bruce Maiben, 44, has not been charged in…
