A man faces hate crime charges after allegedly launching a racially-motivated attack in San Francisco against a Black chef who starred in a Netflix limited series. Wendy Drew, a chef who founded and appears in the series “You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment,” recounted to multiple news outlets the harrowing moments when she…

Few can dispute that Hulk Hugan is a legend when it comes to American wrestling. Since his meteoric rise in the ’80s taking the torch from Andre the Giant, he carried the former World Wrestling Federation on his back until it became the $6.8 billion enterprise of its new iteration, World Wrestling Entertainment. Hogan, whose…

Actor Marlon Wayans is the youngest brother of one of Hollywood’s most talented families. But he says his eldest brother Keenen Ivory Wayans was a “star maker,” shaping careers, not only within their family but many of today’s A-listers. Beyond elevating the careers of his four siblings on the hit show “In Living Color,” Keenen…

Colt Gray, Apalachee High School shooting suspect. | Source: Barrow County Sheriff’s Office In what is likely the latest evidence of a glaring lack of diversity in the media industry, at least two news outlets misidentified the suspect in Wednesday’s deadly mass shooting in Georgia as a Black student who was shot dead instead of…

Chrissy Teigen is sick of her husband John Legend and his social media shenanigans.  The “Ordinary People” singer participated in a new social media trend with one of their four kids, where users act out a particular moment — which is also written out in a description on the video — before turning to look…

A social video showing a mother instructing her adopted child from Africa to put a bag of rice on her head because it’s “in her blood” drew backlash over the mother’s cultural education methods. The video was posted on Instagram and YouTube Shorts by Kaylee Wilson. In it, Wilson directs her young adopted daughter to…

Source: Ralf-Finn Hestoft / Getty On the morning of September 4, a 14-year-old kid identified as Colt Gray allegedly walked into Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, and gunned down two students and two teachers. We’ve seen this before. We see it numerous times annually in America, in fact. We saw it in Nashville, Tennessee,…

Attorney Ernest Morial, right, speaks on the telephone as his wife, Sybil, looks on after he won an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, in New Orleans, Nov. 5, 1967. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell) Sybil Haydel Morial, who was a New Orleans power player in her own right, was…

NBA superstar Stephen “Steph” Curry was in New York City for a press run for the release of his book and his annual Underrated Gold Curry Cup tournament for underprivileged junior golfers. While hitting the streets of Manhattan, the basketball icon had a run-in with some overzealous autograph seekers. New York-based photojournalist Mickey Blank captured the…

“Their decision moved the nation backward,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told theGrio of the striking down of race-based admissions. The White House condemned the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling on affirmative action following recent data that shows enrollment for Black students saw declines on several college campuses. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Washington…