Source: YouTube / Youtube People who made donations to an online crowdfunding effort started by a woman to stave off her pending eviction have been refunded more than $67,000 in contributions after it was revealed she misrepresented herself in a plea for help keeping her home. The online fundraising was frozen weeks after Dasha Kelly…
Jada Pinkett Smith became the quintessential definition of embracing change with age from shaving her head to debuting a new meaningful piece of ink. The 49-year-old, who is seen wearing a green tracksuit, displayed her new tattoo on Monday, Aug. 16, of Hindu goddess Mata Sita from the literature epic Ramayana. Sita is known to…
EXCLUSIVE: The United States struggles to grapple with its role in both nations, giving Americans and our international partners pause. This article includes original reporting by theGrio’s Jessica Floyd. Afghanistan and Haiti have turned the White House upside down as efforts to address the colliding crises have been described as a “shit show” by sources…
A portion of season 4 will be set in the future Netflix has dropped the trailer for the fourth and final season of Dear White People, which is set to premiere on Sept. 22. As previously reported by theGrio, Netflix revealed in the synopsis that this season will be a bit more animated than the…
If legendary singer Dionne Warwick, aka the “Queen of Twitter,” does anything on social media, she’s going to crack a joke, and her recent post to Grammy Award-winning singer Britney Spears proved to be no different. Over the last several weeks, Spears has been in headlines over her conservatorship led by her father, Jamie Spears….
Lear is a TV legend, known for being behind hit series like ‘The Jeffersons’, ‘Good Times,’ and more Norman Lear is getting his flowers. The television icon will officially be honored with the Legend Award by the African American Film Critics Association. To say that Lear is television royalty would be an understatement. The man…
The state asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five mortuary trailers in anticipation of an increase in deaths. As a surge of the delta variant of COVID-19 ravages the state of Texas, the state’s Department of Health Services has submitted a request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five mortuary trailers in anticipation…
A small college in South Carolina just dropped some massive news on its students. Shortly after committing to cut tuition by nearly 50 percent, Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, announced that it would be offering all full-time students free education for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. Clinton College president Lester McCorn made the…
Source: skynesher / Getty Providing proper education for our youth should be a community effort regardless of where you call home, and a part of the process is making sure students feel welcome regardless of their race. One Atlanta mom wasn’t exactly feeling the love from a local elementary school after she discovered that Black…
Tyrese Gibson is loving the skin he’s in. The “Fast and Furious” actor posted a selfie-style video of him admiring himself while he vacationed on Monday, Aug. 16. Gibson panned the camera lens across his face, giving his fans a variety of angles to look at him. In the first Instagram story, he confessed that…
