Superstar Jennifer Lopez’s first husband, Ojani Noa, has resurfaced in the public eye, sharing his views on their short marriage weeks after J.Lo filed for divorce against her soon-to-be ex-husband, Ben Affleck. Noa, the Cuban immigrant, who was married to Lopez for less than a year in the late ’90s, believes there are parallels between…
Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty attend the Marc Jacobs Fall 2020 runway show during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 12, 2020, in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Marc Jacobs) A security guard who sued Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty is seeking $526,110.74. In March, Nicki Minaj and her…
Simone Biles launches multi-generational collection with Athleta. (Photo courtesy of Athleta) Continuing her partnership with Athleta, gymnast Simone Biles launches a new collection of activewear for women and girls this fall. Simone Biles continues to prove that she is more than just a gymnast. With a portfolio of achievements extending beyond gymnastics, Biles is continuing…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty For months now (and that’s being generous), Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding undocumented migrants in America has become increasingly more demeaning, outrageous, xenophobic and flat-out bigoted. After his anti-immigrant racism backfired on him last week during the presidential debate, when he parroted false rumors spread by his running mate, J.D….
Sean “Diddy” Combs, 54, will officially face criminal charges after the Bad Boy Entertainment founder was taken into federal custody in New York City on Monday, Sept. 16. Combs has reportedly pleaded not guilty after being accused of running a criminal enterprise that engaged in forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice. Andre Damian…
5 Questions with Mamoudou Athie Actor Mamoudou Athie stopped by theGrio to discuss his upcoming play “Good Bones,” how he chooses a particular project, and more. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames explores gentrification and the growing price of the American dream in his new play, “Good Bones.” Actor Mamoudou Athie, who will play Travis, stopped…
Rich Lowry, the conservative editor-in-chief of the National Review, sparked a social media uproar this week after allegedly saying the N-word while discussing baseless claims about Haitian migrants in Ohio during an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show.” Lowry has since denied using the racial slur, which came as he addressed false claims by the…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs participates in “The Four” panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) The music mogul “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals,” including physical violence, in order “to fulfill his sexual desires,…
(Courtesy of theGrio) TheGrio’s Gerren Keith Gaynor, Politico’s Eugene Daniels and NPR WHYY’s Tonya Mosley will co-moderate the panel. WHAT: The National Association of Black Journalists and Philadelphia’s WHYY will host an in-person conversation Tuesday with Vice President Kamala Harris at the WHYY studio. The studio audience will include NABJ members and journalism and communication…
Police in the Atlanta suburb of Union City are searching for an unidentified man accused of throwing bleach in the face of a stunned teenage employee of Burger King who was working the night shift on Jonesboro Road. Seventeen-year-old Andrea Alexander didn’t notice anything unusual when she greeted the customer at the drive-thru window just…
