The ‘Hamilton’ star told theGrio he was personally affected by America’s dual pandemics of racial injustice and COVID-19. It’s been nearly a year since Tony Award-winning actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. has been able to see his parents in person, and he understands he’s not alone. During the coronavirus pandemic, scores of kinfolk have…
It looks like Ciara and Russell Wilson may have some family competition going on regarding their son Win and his first words. On Dec. 10, Ciara posted an Instagram video of Win sitting on her lap as she encourages him to say “mama.” Throughout the 90-second video, the 5-month-old is wriggling, smiling, cooing, and attempting…
Frank E. Abney III remembers rushing home every day and watching “The Lion King.” The Disney classic became an after-school ritual for him as a young boy. Abney knew all the words and could draw the characters free hand. “No exaggeration, it was like every day I had to watch it,” he said. “I didn’t…
The ‘Empire’ actress is going behind the camera for the first time with a new movie ‘Two-Faced’ After years of wowing audiences on screen, it looks like industry vet Taraji P. Henson is getting ready to get behind the camera for her first feature film. Read More: Ice Cube, Magic Johnson and more speak on…
Denis McDonough is former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff who Biden announced on Thursday would be nominated as the secretary of veterans affairs President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together. Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a distinctly Obama…
As the suspicion around the coronavirus vaccine harbored among Black community members steadies, health officials are working overtime to establish a sense of trust, broken by centuries of medical racism. Dr. Anthony Fauci, our nation’s leading infectious disease expert is attempting to promote security by advocating that Black scientists, medical experts and researchers have led…
Weinstein appeared via video from prison before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case, who, because of the worsening pandemic, agreed to postpone Weinstein’s extradition hearing until April 9 Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send…
Trump was expected to quickly appeal the ruling from Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court A Wisconsin judge on Friday ruled against President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state, another in a string of defeats in the president’s extraordinary attempts to undo his loss….
Keisha Lance Bottoms has reportedly declined an ambassadorship from Joe Biden in what some saw as a snub to the Atlanta mayor who has been one of the president-elect’s most loyal supporters over the course of his election campaign. Charles Bethea, a reporter with the New Yorker, on Friday tweeted the report he attributed to…
The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election is demonstrating President Donald Trump’s enduring political power even as his term is set to end The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and…
