The FX star is dishing on Franklin’s road to redemption and how he really feels about those comparisons to his “hero” Denzel Damson Idris knows that his Snowfall character, Franklin Saint, is on a complicated journey. The British actor, 29, told theGrio exclusively that he believes that Franklin may be able to find his road…
Opinion: George Floyd is no longer with us, but his spirit lives on in a firm and damning guilty verdict that means so much to a community terrorized by violence. There is something soul-stirring about the Black church. When you grow up as I did, and many of us did in Black spaces of worship,…
The sprawling studio’s atrium will be opened to 1,400 fans, who rushed for one of the free reservations Paisley Park, where Prince lived and worked, will welcome back a select 1,400 fans Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of his death from inside his creative sanctuary. The sprawling studio’s atrium will be opened to those…
“Since George Floyd, that’s what you all say, but I don’t see a knee on your neck,” the driver told the student A white Louisiana school bus driver who made a racist remark to a Black student about the murder of George Floyd is out of a job after the child’s mother complained to school…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association board said in an email that Phil Berk is no longer a member of the organization A former president of the organization that hosts the Golden Globes has been dropped from the group’s board after sending an email that called Black Lives Matter a “hate movement.” The Hollywood Foreign Press…
With more than 50% of adults at least partially vaccinated, Biden will reflect on his efforts to expand vaccine distribution The United States is set to meet President Joe Biden’s latest vaccine goal of administering 200 million coronavirus shots in his first 100 days in office as the White House steps up efforts to inoculate the rest of…
Social media users rushed to defend Rev. Jesse Jackson on April 20 after he was the target of insensitive comments about his appearance on Twitter moments after the verdict was read in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial. One user compared the nasty comments to remarks made about “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman after he lost a…
Missouri Rep. Rick Roeber’s children and former wife testified to disturbing allegations of abuse, alcoholism and animal cruelty. Earlier this year, three children of Missouri Rep. Rick Roeber testified against their father for the physical and sexual abuse they say he committed. On Monday, following an investigation by the Missouri House of Representatives, the Missouri…
The actor tells People he is “extremely happy” with his relationship In a new interview with People Magazine, Michael B. Jordan opens up about why he went public with his relationship with Lori Harvey. As theGrio has previously reported, Jordan and Harvey took to social media to announce their relationship at the beginning of 2021….
“Yesterday’s verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis,” Garland says The Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after a former officer was convicted in the killing of George Floyd there, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday. The announcement comes a day…
