The weeklong FESPACO festival showcases works by African filmmakers and works produced on the continent Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 1 million in recent years….
The former ‘Empire’ star will face charges that he filed false police reports after alleging he was attacked in Chicago A judge on Friday denied a last-ditch effort to dismiss a criminal case against actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying to police when he reported that he was the victim of a racist,…
With car crashes on the rise, the Biden administration’s delay in implementing measures designed to prevent them has activists wondering why After their 16-year-old daughter died in a car crash, David and Wendy Mills wondered whether she would be alive if federal rules on rear seat belt warnings had been issued on time. Four years…
Netflix says terminated employee leaked confidential budget information to Bloomberg News Netflix said Friday that it had fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about what it paid for Dave Chappelle’s comedy special The Closer, which some condemned as being transphobic. The employee, who wasn’t named, shared “confidential, commercially sensitive information outside the company,”…
Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos shocked the world when they threw up a Black Power fist while being awarded at the podium during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The photograph of the Black track and field stars was taken right after their impressive win in the competition’s 200-meter race. Smith struck…
Ceaser Emanuel from “Black Ink Crew: New York” is taking on a new healthier lifestyle and hitting the gym. Hollywood Unlocked captured a photo the tattoo shop owner shared on his Instagram story Tuesday, Oct. 12. The image shows Emanuel taking a picture of his shirtless muscle-toned body and red shorts in the mirror. Ceaser…
Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Gaige Grosskreutz survived his encounter with Kyle Rittenhouse and is now suing the Kenosha Police Department. Grosskreutz alleges the police invited an environment that allowed for a violent white supremacist to cause harm. As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the lawsuit claims in part that law enforcement effectively…
Pastor Mike McClure Jr., aka Pastor Mike Jr., is passionate about showing the Christian community that there is a space for “the ratchet and the righteous” through his music and his ministry. The Rock City Church pastor has been climbing the charts since the release of his 2020 debut album “Live Free” and hit single…
EXCLUSIVE: High-ranking sources tell theGrio that presidential executive orders were the topic of conversation in a previously unknown meeting between the Biden team, civil rights lawyers and families of slain Black Americans The White House is trying to pick up the broken pieces of the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, which failed in negotiations…
“This is an equitable statement and in the midst of all our inequities in our country,” the University of South Carolina coach said. University of South Carolina’s women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley has inked a seven-year, $22.4M contract with the Gamecocks, making her the highest-paid Black coach in women’s basketball. “Credit where it’s due,” Staley…
