REVIEW: While there are times when A Choice of Weapons seems at odds with itself, it also accentuates the challenge of telling the story of a figure through your eyes and admiration for him There’s a tiny detail in Gordon Parks’ gorgeous—and heavily repurposed—photo of a woman and her niece standing below a neon “Colored…
Kelly is accused of leading an enterprise made up of his managers, bodyguards and other employees who helped him recruit women and girls for sex Jailed R&B singer R. Kelly will likely get to keep a new lawyer in his federal sex-trafficking case despite questions about the attorney’s texts and other communications with one of Kelly’s ex-girlfriends….
The sixth-annual Black Music Honors promises to be an extra special one this year as it falls on June 19, also known as Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas and, for the first time in over 150 years, will be observed as a federal holiday formally known as Juneteenth National Independence Day. …
As theGrio previously reported, Drake appeared at Bronny James basketball game last week as well, in which he seemed to get into it with the referee Drake and Michael B. Jordan made an exciting and unexpected appearance on Thursday night. The two celebrities went to a high school varsity basketball game (for the Sierra Canyon…
“There were many more people who contributed to the beginnings of this country, to making this country what it is, than just one group of people — and the history needs to be told by many people,” Lemon said. If you are a vocal opponent of critical race theory, Don Lemon wants you to “stop…
The new seven-member Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee features four scientists who have served on the panel previously The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday he has fully reinstated one of two key advisory boards he dismantled earlier this year in a push for “scientific integrity” at the agency. The new seven-member Clean…
“This film speaks directly to the issues in front of us – White Supremacy, individual bravery, the rule of law, democracy,” John Legend said about the documentary A documentary exploring the story of a young man who was arrested for touching a white boy’s arm in 1966 has come to life. “A Crime on the…
As President Joe Biden signed a law making Juneteenth a federal holiday, conservative commentator and author Candace Owens unleashed a slew of tweets criticizing those who support it, prompting backlash on social media. Candace Owens is a “puppet for old white dudes,” one user wrote. The backlash against Owens came after she accused Democrats of…
“This crime serves as a horrifying reminder that racism and bigotry still exist and threaten the safety of communities of color.” A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime with the intent to kill for stabbing a Black man while he was applying for a job at a fast-food restaurant in Ontario,…
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley and Georgia Rep. Nikema Williams say they will reintroduce legislation to revise the 13th Amendment As the nation this week made Juneteenth a federal holiday, honoring when the last enslaved Black people learned they were free, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that allowed another form of slavery…
