A federal court ruled last month that a Black man with intellectual disabilities who was enslaved for five years at a restaurant should be awarded double the amount of compensation from the manager, The Washington Post reported this week. Upon pleading guilty to a “forced labor charge” in 2018, 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards was sentenced…
The model actress says that playing a SEAL team member while expecting was a challenge Even though Without Remorse has everyone swooning over Michael B. Jordan, there was another badass on the set thanks to Jodie Turner-Smith who costars as his fellow SEAL team member. Read More: Michael B. Jordan reveals why he wanted Lauren…
“Decades before his death he kept spending as if he had not.” Michael Jackson’s estate has scored a legal victory in a years-long battle with the IRS over the value of the late singer’s assets and image at the time of his death. As theGRIO previously reported, the dispute centered on Jackson’s image, as well…
The series takes viewers on a culinary journey that ventures from Africa to the deep south. Netflix has released the trailer for an original culinary series titled High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, based on a popular book of the same name by food historian Dr. Jessica B. Harris. According to…
“We ended up biting a bitter, bitter pill that haunts us today.” Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty (R), is facing criticism for defending the Three-Fifths Compromise. The agreement was drafted during the nation’s Constitutional Convention in 1787 and classified a slave as three-fifths of a person when determining representation in Congress and tax obligations of…
“Not only is he a world-class stage and film actor, but he’s a brilliant writer and director too.” Award-winning actor, director, playwright and producer Colman Domingo took to social media on Tuesday to announce that he is joining the staff at the University of Southern California. “It is with great honor and joy to shout…
Medicine is billed as a field guided by extensive research and evidence. But the specter of race reared its head in the field earlier this year when a top editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association posited that structural racism doesn’t exist in health care. The controversial commentary came during a podcast and…
“You know I thug ’em, f-ck ’em, love ’em, leave ’em, ‘Cause I don’t f-ckin’ need ’em,” are the words of a 30-year-old Jay-Z in his 2000 hit “Big Pimpin,’” but these same words are ones that a decade later the music mogul would regret. In this new age of social media, celebrities are constantly…
Ashton Pinke | Source: Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Police in Texas shot and killed a Black man early Monday morning while responding to a 911 call intended to seek a mental health wellness check for the victim, according to the lawyer representing his family. Ashton Pinke, 27, was shot by two officers with the Mesquite…
Maker, 20, a 6″11 South Sudanese-Australian hoops star said he chose Howard University because he wanted to “change the culture” A docuseries about the life of basketball star Makur Maker is on the way. It was recently announced that Big Man on Campus, was ordered by Apple TV+ and will follow Maker as he navigates his…
