EXCLUSIVE: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge says housing is the glue to holding Biden’s infrastructure plan together as it is “integral” in the midst of a “housing crisis.” Surfside apartments collapsing in Florida and an overpass in Washington crashing down on a busy intersection are two recent examples that highlight the immediate structural…
Tracee Ellis Ross‘ natural hair became a topic of conversation on Saturday, July 3, after the actress uploaded a video displaying her massive blow-dried mane while informing her fans of a momentous occasion known as CROWN Day. National CROWN Day, which is also recognized as the anniversary of the signing of The CROWN Act in…
Had the sisters’ worn life jackets, “we would have had a much better outcome than we did,” officials said. A Texas family has been left devastated by the death of two sisters who drowned during a July 4th celebration on Sunday. The sisters, Teegan Hill, 31, and Troinee Broom, 28, were celebrating Hill’s birthday with at least 12…
“We want your support,” Olympian Gabby Thomas wrote regarding the upcoming Olympics Olympian Gabby Thomas is speaking out and calling for support for Black athletes gearing up to compete in Tokyo this summer. “It really hurts to see so many black people choosing not to watch the Olympics this year,” Thomas tweeted on Tuesday. This…
Nick Cannon is finally breaking his silence on why he keeps siring children, some of them back to back with different women. Miami rappers the City Girls appeared on Nick Cannon’s show “Nick Cannon Radio” on July 7, where he asked them to take part in his segment called “Advice for Nick.” He asked JT…
The hit BET reality show is back with a brand new episode, and theGrio has an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode BET Presents: The Encore is getting ready to air its fifth episode Wednesday, and theGrio has an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode. As theGrio previously reported, BET Presents: The Encore is one of the biggest reality…
The innocent man killed early Tuesday morning as Minneapolis police pursued a carjacking suspect in a patrol car has been identified as Leneal Frazier, the uncle of Darnella Frazier, who filmed the death of George Floyd. On Tuesday, Frazier shared a post about her uncle’s death in a statement on Facebook. “I woke up to…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says Knarrative is “committed to helping Black people, across the diaspora, know our history, create our own stories, and understand ourselves” If you know Karen Hunter— former Head of Karen Hunter Publishing at Simon & Schuster, eight-time New York Times bestselling author, the XM radio host, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the five-time…
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith appears via video to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic alongside then- President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Dec. 20, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. | Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty More than a year since the country first shutdown, and the pandemic rages on. Concerns about the spread of the…
The teen who captured George Floyd’s Minneapolis murder says her uncle, Leneal Lamont Frazier, was killed Tuesday. The young woman who captured the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis shared on Tuesday that her uncle was killed as an innocent bystander during a police chase. Darnella Frazier wrote in a Facebook post that her…
