Kevin Durant of the United States is fouled by JT Thor of South Sudan in a men’s basketball game at the 2024 Summer Olympics Wednesday in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France. (Photo: Mark J. Terrill/AP) Durant’s basket with 3:06 left in the third quarter Tuesday gave him six points in the game and 489 in his four Olympic…
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells theGrio Vice President Harris and President Biden have been “critical partners” in shaping policies benefiting Black and brown communities. As presidential nominee Kamala Harris hits the campaign trail with her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in key battleground states, many Black and brown Americans are looking to…
Algeria’s Imane Khelif (right) gestures after defeating Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in their women’s 66 kg semifinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics on Tuesday in Paris, France. (Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP) Khelif defeated Janjaem Suwannapheng of Thailand 5:0 in the semifinals, where the crowd roared for her and chanted her name repeatedly during her three-round…
Simone Biles has become one of the standout stars of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. The multi-medal-winning gymnast also expressed being annoyed by production workers during the floor exercise competition. “If one of these cameramen hit me one more time, We’re going to have an issue,” Simone Biles could be heard telling someone during…
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told theGrio that passing federal legislation in Congress is “something that we want to see get done.” This week marks the 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Nearly six decades after the act granted Black Americans the right to vote without fear of racial discrimination, data from the…
Darryl George stands in front of Galveston County Court House in Galveston, Texas in May. (Photo: Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP, file) Darryl George, 18, was kept out of his regular high school classes for most of the 2023-24 school year because the school district said his hair length violated its dress code. HOUSTON (AP)…
Joy Banner, co-founder of The Descendants Project and a leader in the fight against Greenfield, hugs a supporter moments after hearing that the company would cease plans for a grain elevator facility in the middle of her hometown of Wallace, which is in Louisiana’s heavily industrialized “Cancer Alley.” (Photo: Jack Brook/AP) The company’s announcement signaled…
This undated photo shows (from left) D’Vontaye Mitchell, who died on June 30 after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards in Milwaukee, with his sister Nayish Mitchell and cousin Samantha Mitchell. (Photo: Samantha Mitchell via AP, file) Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has said video recorded by a bystander and circulating on…
A California beachfront homeowner caught on a viral video yelling at beachgoers to get off her property and corralling off part of her land could face considerable fines. The video, posted to TikTok on July 19, shows a woman on Laguna Beach’s Victoria Beach yelling and cursing at a family with small children as they’re…
Source: STEPHEN MATUREN / Getty The ascent of current Vice President Kamala Harris as the front-running Democratic nominee in the upcoming 2024 presidential election is in full swing after only just beginning a few weeks ago. Things now appear to be kicking off with even more brevity after Harris on Tuesday chose to announce her…
