Civil rights tourism has become big business in cities including Birmingham and Montgomery Alabama’s state tourism agency has launched a podcast that both tells stories about the civil rights movement and encourages people to visit places linked to the era. Read More: FBI opens civil rights investigation into Andrew Brown Jr. shooting The three-part Alabama…
Mayor Lumumba said the Jackson Police Department officers “unjustly gunned down two innocent young Black men” The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city and a state senator both apologized Saturday for shootings 51 years ago by city and state police officers that killed two people and injured 12 others on the campus of a historically Black…
If you’re having trouble narrowing down your watch-list this weekend, theGrio has you covered If you’re having trouble narrowing down your watch-list this weekend, theGrio has you covered. With so many big projects debuting this week, it could be hard to decide how to spend your precious tube time and we’ve got all the info…
“Here in Arizona, it’s pushing back on the voters of tribal communities” Arizona Republicans say the voter restrictions they’re pushing after President Joe Biden’s win in the state last year are designed to strengthen the integrity of future elections. To some, the changes will make voting more difficult than it already is. The bills, some…
During an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast, Fat Joe gave DJ Khaled his flowers for consistently dropping hit records with the biggest names in hip-hop Fat Joe became a trending topic after the Bronx rapper praised DJ Khaled for his musical success and concluded that he’s the “Quincy Jones of hip-hop.” During an appearance on…
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said expulsions protect both the American public and migrants Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. Then, as the 12-year-old Salvadoran girl got on an inflatable raft to cross the Rio Grande in Texas in…
Thurman King, a 55-year-old Black man, was driving from work to his home in Rockford, Michigan, a predominantly white suburb of Grand Rapids, late one night in March 2019. When he got about a half block from home, he noticed a police car with its lights flashing behind him. He pulled into his driveway and…
Jaden Smith is expanding his philanthropic efforts in the form of a restaurant for the less fortunate. In 2019 the rapper launched his “I Love You” vegan food truck in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles to provide free food for the homeless. According to the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce, the 0.4 square-mile area…
The majority of the league’s 20,000 retirees are Black Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory. Former…
“Kobe has always been my favorite athlete,” says Jaycee Horn, who wore No. 1 with the South Carolina Gamecocks When Carolina Panthers first-round draft pick Jaycee Horn learned the NFL would let cornerbacks wear single-digit numbers this season, his jersey choice became easy. He selected No. 8 to honor his childhood hero, Kobe Bryant. “Kobe…
