Business is good for Fox’s hit drama series “9-1-1.” So good that its cast is getting a raise which will reportedly make one of the program’s lead stars the highest-paid Black actress on a network television show. According to Deadline, veteran actress Angela Bassett, who plays Athena Grant on the NAACP Image Award-winning show, often spoke…
Detroit police are investigating after a video surfaced of an officer punching a Black man in the face on Sunday morning. Interim Detroit Police Chief James Craig expressed concerns about the video, which was filmed in Greektown and surfaced on Reddit over the weekend. Detroit police are investigating after a video surfaced of an officer punching a Black…
Valerie Junius was planning to leave Lawrence Reed, who has since been charged with her July 29 murder in Katy. A Katy, Texas mother was killed last week allegedly at the hands of her husband, who authorities say fatally shot her and opened fire on two of her children. Valerie Junius was planning to leave…
OPINION: Most members of Congress are still overwhelmingly white, male and wealthy — women of color like Congresswoman Bush are changing that mold We’ve all come to know ‘The Squad‘ which consists of four elected members of Congress who also happen to be very progressive women of color: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep….
Russell and Ciara Wilson’s youngest child, Win Wilson, is walking! The Seattle Seahawks quarterback shared the exciting news on his Instagram page with his followers. On Aug. 4, Wilson uploaded three photos, one with Ciara, Win, another hidden figure that may be his daughter, Sienna, and himself sitting on the practice field. Russell Wilson tells…
“I know what it’s like to be evicted and have to live out of my car with my two babies,” Bush said. “As long as I am a sitting U.S. congressperson, I will not keep my mouth shut about it.” Roughly two decades before she was elected to Congress, Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri lived…
Countless students around the nation are breathing a sigh of relief — with many of them starting life post-college less burdened by debt. That’s thanks to news from the U.S. Department of Education, which announced in April that between the Cares Act and the American Rescue Plan, Historically Black Colleges and Universities would receive $5 billion…
“I’m hopeful that this is just the beginning,” activist and attorney Gerald Griggs told theGrio about new funding for mobile crisis intervention services in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is taking steps to help communities after announcing $15 million in funding for states to help design mobile crisis intervention services….
Black women must work harder for the recognition and often are judged more harshly than others when they don’t meet the public’s expectations Naomi Osaka. Simone Biles. Both are prominent young Black women under the pressure of a global Olympic spotlight that few human beings ever know. Both have faced major career crossroads at the…
The 21-year-old from New Jersey won the 400-meter hurdles title, finishing in 51.46 seconds in yet another history-making day Sydney McLaughlin broke the world record. Dalilah Muhammad broke it, too. Only one of the world’s best hurdlers could win the Olympic gold medal — and McLaughlin came out ahead in the latest installment of the…
