People were outraged Thursday afternoon when PlayStation announced a new gaming experience on Fornite that features Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. According to PlayStation’s blog, the new experience, “March Through Time in Fornite” will teleport players nearly 60 years in the past to a re-imagined Washington, DC called D.C. 63. They will get to…
“People are going to just think what they think,” the acclaimed film director told The New York Times in an interview. Acclaimed film director Spike Lee is asking audiences to withhold their final judgment about NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½, his docuseries about 9/11 for HBO, following the backlash to him including conspiracy theories in the project. …
More than 70% of calls to Mississippi’s poison control center last week were related to people ingesting ivermectin. Health officials in the state of Arkansas have confirmed that doctors at a Washington County jail prescribed ivermectin to inmates with COVID-19, despite warnings from the FDA that the anti-parasitic medicine should not be used to treat…
Actress Letitia Wright, also known as Shuri in the “Black Panther” franchise film, was recently hospitalized after performing a stunt and suffering minor injuries on the set of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” A spokesperson for Wright told CNN that she has already been discharged from the hospital and is focused on recovering. Variety initially broke…
Attorney Sidney Powell speaks during a news conference with Rudy Giuliani, lawyer for Donald Trump, about lawsuits contesting the results of the presidential election at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19, 2020. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty Do y’all remember Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump attorney who joined fellow…
The milk crate challenge is taking over Black communities and is especially popular among Black youth. Some Black doctors are urgently pleading them to stop following the social media craze or risk ending up in the emergency room. “I’m a parent, I have young kids, and for me it’s like horror and shock! I only see…
Vacation Friends premieres on Hulu on Friday Aug. 17 Get ready for your next favorite vacation flick! Hulu’s upcoming film Vacation Friends stars Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji and more, and theGrio has an exclusive (and hilarious) clip from the movie. Vacation Friends from 20th Century Studios premieres Friday, Aug. 27 on Hulu, and if…
The word came after news that negative COVID-19 tests or full vaccination status will not be required at West’s listening party. After an announcement that negative COVID-19 tests or full vaccination status will not be required at the Chicago listening party for Kanye West’s DONDA, organizers have announced that free COVID vaccines will be offered…
Actress Jurnee Smollett is reprising her role as the comic book character Black Canary, but this time she is teaming up with friend and fellow creative Misha Green. The duo is developing a standalone film for HBO starring the DC Comics character who was introduced to the big screen in last year’s “Birds of Prey: And…
A Fork Jackson soldier who was seen shoving a Black man walking in a South Carolina neighborhood in a viral video that circulated in April has been found guilty of a single charge of third-degree assault and battery. Sgt. Jonathan Pentland, a 42-year-old white Fort Jackson drill sergeant, had been suspended of his Army instructor…
