This week, theGrio’s flagship podcast explores white supremacy and the Capitol insurrection From the attempted Capitol coup and social media companies removing Donald Trump’s accounts to flight companies banning Capitol rioters, the new year started out with a BANG. That’s why on the Dear Culture podcast, theGrio‘s Shana Pinnock and Gerren Keith Gaynor take this week…
Harrison is currently the associate chair of the DNC Jaime Harrison lost his bid to become the next senator of South Carolina but may soon find himself elevated to another position. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to choose Harrison as the DNC chair. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Biden will tap Harrison…
Protesters displayed names of 138 Congress members who voted against verifying the election results and demanded they be removed from Congress With Washington still scrambling to make sense of last week’s attempted coup, a group called Shutdown DC gathered in front of the Capitol on Wednesday and held banners that read “Expel all Fascists.” The…
Fisher took to social media to break down his disappointment in the decision After months of speaking out about his “unacceptable” treatment on set, now Ray Fisher says Warner Bros. removed him from The Flash after racism allegations. Fisher, 33, played Cyborg in the DCEU’s Justice League and Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice films….
A picture of Rocky Mount cops Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker inside the Capitol aided the case. As more arrests come out of last week’s deadly insurrection at the nation’s Capitol, several public safety officers have already been arrested for their roles. A Florida firefighter was arrested this week after being pictured inside the Capitol…
‘The Phoenix Police Department has been made aware of the incident and after speaking with the FBI, the department will be the lead investigative agency,’ a spokeswoman says The Phoenix Police Department is investigating after a virtual funeral for civil rights icon and city leader Calvin Coolidge Goode was interrupted Tuesday by hackers yelling racist…
The Vessel is a 150-foot-high sculpture in the shape of an inverted beehive in the Hudson Yards development The centerpiece sculpture at a massive development on Manhattan’s west side has been closed to the public, and the developer is looking at suicide prevention efforts after three deaths in the past year. Read More: NY attorney…
The trailer for John David Washington and Zendaya‘s new Netflix film “Malcolm & Marie” sparked excitement among Black Twitter earlier this month. Fans appear to be eager to see what many call one of Zendaya’s best performances to date. Still, where there is praise, there is a hint of criticism. Despite the beauty of it…
Dorsey says the aftermath of the Capitol riots created an ‘extraordinary and untenable circumstance’ for the company Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s ban of President Donald Trump in a philosophical Twitter thread that is his first public statement on the subject. When Trump incited his followers to storm the U.S. Capitol last week, then continued…
Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit includes dozens of examples of alleged misconduct during the spring demonstrations in the wake of George Floyd’s police killing New York’s attorney general sued the New York Police Department on Thursday, calling the rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring part of a longstanding pattern of abuse that…
