“I feel like, even just separating race from it, no man should ever handle a woman in that way. That should never be OK.” The Black woman who recently went viral after she was dragged from a Washington, D.C. sports bar by her hair is now demanding that the establishment’s management confront the issues that…
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, has been awarded a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize Board met at Columbia University on June 7 and 8 to select the 2021 winners and announced the recipients on Friday, June 11. Frazier, now-18, was recognized “for…
The Minneapolis representative was visibly moved at a ceremony to honor those lost to the novel coronavirus Rep. Ilhan Omar is known for keeping her composure even during the most stressful circumstances. But this week the stoic lawmaker was moved to tears during a moment of silence held for those lost family to the COVID-19…
President Joe Biden has admittedly borrowed liberally from Barack Obama‘s presidential playbook, readily reversing Donald Trump‘s racist policies and replacing them with those that align more closely with the man to whom he served as vice president for eight loyal years. And so it follows that during his highly anticipated summit in Switzerland with Russian…
“We had so many questions and we’ve got some answers. But we’re not going to stop until we get all our questions answered.” It was announced on Monday the Savannah Police Department has let go of five officers after a man in their custody was found hanging. In addition to the five officers being terminated,…
Kevin Hart is the latest celebrity among several others who is not a fan of cancel culture. Cancel culture is a term used to described the social and professional ostracism of celebrities that have been involved in some form of controversy. The idea is to hold these famous people accountable for their wrongdoings. Some are…
The newest housewife of New York sat down with theGrio and opened up about the current season of the series, and teased how last week’s intense Hamptons dinner affects the rest of the season Eboni K. Williams is all about protecting her peace. In an exclusive sit-down with theGrio, the newest housewife of New York…
Martha White, the 99-year-old Black woman whose actions helped ignite the Baton Rouge bus boycott in 1953, has died. The boycott, which inspired Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks’ well-known Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955, was a reaction by the Black Baton Rouge community to racial injustice perpetuated by white bus drivers….
The doc on the Harlem rapper premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, exploring his month-long incarceration in a Swedish jail, and his life story Throughout Harlem rap star A$AP Rocky‘s new film Stockholm Syndrome, he’s wearing a Dennis Rodman tank top. Rodman, the Hall of Fame NBA player was a symbol of rebellion and dedication; the…
“There is no such thing as being moderate when it comes to protecting voting rights and lifting the poor and lifting low wealth people and providing health care, and providing living wages,” said Poor Peoples Campaign co-chair Rev. William J. Barber II. On Monday, roughly 300 protesters marched to Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) office in…
