Source: Anadolu / Getty If you’re Black in America, it’s hard not to feel like there’s a target on your back that Congress couldn’t care less about. The recent police shooting death of Sonya Massey has renewed demands that Congress take action and pass the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act. Still, we’ve seen this…

(Adobe Stock Images) OPINION: A lot of the toxic social media conversations around dating make it sound scarier than it has to be. Let’s change that.  Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I recently saw someone on Threads say “The…

Reality star Khloé Kardashian lived most of her 20s in the shadows of her now-billionaire sister Kim Kardashian. But now, in 2024 and at the age of 40, a doctor has gassed her up, saying that she has the biological body of a 28-year-old, the same age as her little sister Kendall Jenner — who is…

Source: Alexander Lewis / Getty Norris Henderson and I knew of each other long before we actually met in New York 20 years ago. I’d written widely about the conditions, harms and failures of the American prison system, and Norris, the founder and executive director of the criminal justice policy shop Voice of the Experienced…

Authorities say they have identified the two white people who visited a Black councilmember’s home in Michigan and pointed a photo of an ape at her doorbell camera. According to Ann Arbor Police, two white males approached Councilwoman Cynthia Harrison’s home on July 16 at 8 p.m. and repeatedly knocked on the door and rang…

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 5: (L-R) Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Barack Obama attend an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on April 5, 2022 in Washington, DC. With then-Vice President Joe Biden by his side, Obama signed ‘Obamacare’ into…

Source: X photo / X photo Sonya Massey’s killer should likely never have been on the job in the first place. The heartbreaking and brutal killing on July 6 of the Springfield, Illinois mother of two seems to get more devastating with each new set of details released. Late yesterday, ABC News reported that Sean…

Vice President Kamala Harris (right) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington Thursday. (Photo: Julia Nikhinson/AP) Vice President Kamala Harris offered a more forceful tone about the urgency of the moment just one day after Israeli Prime Minister…

Democratic Georgia state Sen. Nikki Merritt of Grayson delivers remarks at a joint Senate and House press conference Wednesday at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on the State School Superintendent’s decision to block an AP African American Studies course. (Photo: Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP) In the face of blossoming outrage, the Georgia Department of…

Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs from Ellington Airport in Houston, Thursday. Harris is returning to Washington after delivering remarks at a teachers’ union event. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP) “I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on the debate stage,” Vice…