The Emmy-winning musician spoke with theGrio about his first meeting with the Queen of Soul and working with Jennifer Hudson Kris Bowers was destined to do film scores. With both parents in the television industry, the Los Angeles native developed some amazing piano chops in his childhood and always envisioned himself as a composer. The…
An embarrassed journalist is laughing along with much of the internet after she failed to recognize the basketball player Hayley Crombleholme, a news reporter of KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah, went viral this week after she shared a video of her interviewing Jordan Clarkson, the NBA guard who she did not know plays for…
Trailblazing ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath’s indelible influence within the realm of STEM has inspired generations of changemakers whose work sits at the intersection of innovation and medicine. Her legacy will be honored with a posthumous induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Dr. Bath invented what is arguably one of the most important surgical…
Monae revamps the 2015 song to spotlight female victims of police violence Janelle Monáe on Thursday released a lengthy music video for her protest song “Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout.” The 17-minute video features several prominent Black and Latino female artists and activists reciting the names of Black and Latino women who have been…
The last of the MOVE 9 to be freed from prison, Africa succumbed to cancer Charles Sims Africa, a member of the Philadelphia organization MOVE, died on Monday at age 61. Also known as Chuck Africa, he was the last remaining member of MOVE to be freed from prison stemming from a 1978 shootout with…
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 22 and a half years behind bars on April 20 for killing George Floyd, plans to appeal the decision, claiming the court “abused its discretion.” In documents filed on Thursday, Sept. 23, and obtained by CBS,…
“There was pressure on both sides,” he says Matt James is speaking out about his journey as the first Black Bachelor. James appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday and dished with guest host Arsenio Hall about the pressures he faced being the franchise’s first Black male lead. “It was a lot,” he admitted, per…
The show is the first of its kind and was birthed from the first Black-owned, faith-based FM radio and television station in Boston. On Friday, Sept. 24, Boston Black News and The Boston Globe premiered their new community radio show Black News Hours Presented by The Boston Globe. The hour-long radio show is aimed at…
Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Black women face hardships on levels that some of us will never be able to comprehend, and unfortunately, that often includes harassment in the workplace. Surprisingly enough, the strong Black females of the DC Police Department understand that notion more than expected after filing a class action lawsuit against MPDC,…
Despite some issues that led to top leaders stepping down, the new chief executive says there will be more openness going forward Almost four years ago, a group of high-profile Hollywood women — producers, agents, movie stars — formed Time’s Up, an ambitious initiative to fight sexual harassment in their own industry and beyond, as…
