“When they pulled me over, they didn’t really explain to me, they just pulled me out of my car,” Ariel Harrison said. The McDonough County Sheriff’s Office in Illinois is facing fierce criticism after a 31-year-old Black mother of three was held down inside a jail cell and forcibly stripped naked in front of male…
“It’s not enough to have this conversation. As my grandmother said, talk is cheap. You have to act,” Ben Crump tells theGrio. The death of Philando Castile transfixed the nation and increased the volume on the demand for police reform, as he joined a growing list of Black men killed by police. As his final…
The film is described as a comedy “in a similar vein of movies like ‘Clerks,’ ‘Barbershop,’ ‘Car Wash,’ and the ‘Friday’ series.” Get ready because CornerStore is coming to a screen near you. This July, CornerStore will officially be available to rent and own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms. CornerStore…
During a Friday hearing where former Nashville Police Officer Andrew Delke was sentenced to three years in prison under a plea deal, Vickie Hambrick, the mother of the man Delke killed, offered no forgiveness to the ex-officer. Daniel Hambrick, 25, was fatally shot by Delke as he fled on foot from an attempted traffic stop…
The Emmy award-winning series returns after almost two years, with Lathan joining as Lisa Arthur, “a high-profile and well-connected New York lawyer” The Roy family is back. HBO‘s hit series Succession has dropped a season 3 trailer, which features an appearance from Sanaa Lathan, who is joining the series as Lisa Arthur. After postponing filming…
Fans of HBO’s hit show “Lovecraft Country” won’t be seeing their favorite characters grace the screen with a second season. Despite being one of the most celebrated shows during the pandemic, HBO announced its decision to not move forward with the show that cast Black actors as monster slayers in a Jim Crow-era America. “We…
A Black, disabled mother from Illinois is fighting back against the McDonough County Sheriff’s Office and the Macomb Police Department after claiming she was subjected to false accusations and a non-consensual strip search during a DUI arrest. Ariel Harrison was arrested and taken to an Illinois jail by police. Corrections officers held her down, tased…
Michael B. Jordan has the fans doing a double take after his girlfriend Lori Harvey posted a video of the two of them on vacation. Jordan and Harvey decided to take a nice getaway to celebrate their July Fourth. Although they did not specifically say where they were, Harvey, 24, shared a little peek of…
Lee is the first Black jury president at Cannes, and described it as “the world’s greatest film festival” during Tuesday’s official press conference At the Cannes Film Festival press conference on Tuesday, jury president and esteemed filmmaker Spike Lee spoke on “Black people being hunted down,” Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and more. As theGrio previously…
JT took to Twitter to break down her heartfelt interaction with the Grammy award-winning singer, in which she gave advice and called the rapper “beautiful” It seems City Girls‘ JT was in the presence of a queen this weekend. The rapper took to social media to gush about her encounter with Beyoncé at a Fourth…
