A group of Howard University students has taken over a campus building in an effort to amplify their demands for change in multiple areas at the historically Black college in the nation’s capital. The sit-in began on Tuesday and was continuing as of Wednesday morning after students spent the night in the Blackburn Center to…
Tisha Campbell wants a clothing manufacturer to run her her coins after the company used her face to sell its items. The “Martin” star shared the news, which she dubbed “dumb ass shit,” on TikTok then reposted the video to her Instagram page on Saturday, Oct. 9. While she started off the clip laughing and…
Obviously, the worst thing about anti-vaxxers is that they are dangerous to the collective health of the general public, especially during an ongoing global pandemic. But it’s the pseudo-intellectualism and anti-intellectualism that make them insufferably annoying. It’s also the hubris in how they appear to believe they’re taking a stand against government tyranny when, really,…
Along with a brief clip of her new island home, Cardi B posted a message of gratitude on Instagram addressed to her husband. Migos rapper Offset gave his popular fellow-recording-artist wife an extravagant 29th birthday present: a stunning six-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom mansion on the gorgeous Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic. In announcing the gift she’d…
Denise Williams, 29, died during treatment for postpartum depression at a Queens Hospital. Now her family is demanding answers. Denise Williams, a 29-year-old Black mother of two, went to Queens Hospital Center in August seeking treatment for postpartum depression. Just 48 hours later, Williams’ family learned she had died — but why still isn’t clear….
EXCLUSIVE: In her “Designing Your Career” course on MasterClass, Welteroth shares how she built a dream professional path — and offers tips to follow. In an exclusive interview, Elaine Welteroth sat down with theGrio and opened up about her new course on MasterClass, what impact she wants it to have and other topics. Thursday night,…
False reports from conservative media claim the youngsters used in a YouTube video for World Space Week featuring Harris were actors. The White House is responding to false reports from conservative media that the children used in an original YouTube video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris were actors. According to CNN, White House officials have clarified…
Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty Smokey Robinson is one of the iconic singer-songwriters of his generation but in his words, he nearly died after being contracting COVID-19 in 2020. The 81-year-old Robinson said it was “touch and go” after he came down with COVID in December 2020 and was hospitalized, losing his voice and making…
“This in essence is the police version of how to get away with murder,” said B’Ivory LaMarr, one of Jacob Blake’s attorneys, after learning details behind the Department of Justice’s decision not to pursue criminal civil rights charges against the officer who left the Wisconsin man permanently paralyzed last year. On Oct. 8, the Department…
In today’s episode of What Would Sunken Place Jesus Do? Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has recently found himself under fire for catching the bigot holy ghost while speaking at churches to denounce educators for teaching students about the LGBTQ community. Now, calls are mounting for the Black GOPoor decision-maker to resign, but…
