It was after midnight when a fight broke out between two men at a bar in Wisconsin in 2017, prompting two other men to try to break up the fight, including Jimmie Sanders, a 33-year-old Black man. However, one of the men fighting pulled out a gun, and a single shot was fired, sending customers…
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Congratulations. You’ve finally been invited to an HBCU Homecoming. Maybe it was your cousin. Maybe it was your homeboy from back in the day. Maybe it was your new “special friend” who decided soft launches are for chumps. Or maybe you just finally got curious about what all those obnoxious…
Kayla Nicole. (Photo courtesy of Kayla Nicole) Kayla Nicole opens up about how she’s evolving and cultivating community through her podcast and mental health platform. While the internet spins its narratives about her, Kayla Nicole has been busy writing her own. The 33-year-old TV personality and sports journalist recently sat down with theGrio to discuss…
(Photo: Getty Images) “This is apparently who many of these people are,” said the Democratic leader of the United States House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, called out what he sees as the Republican Party’s racism and fueling of hatred and political violence. He also…
President Donald Trump insists he’s no monarch, just hours before a coast-to-coast “No Kings Day” protest is set to remind him that Americans don’t swear loyalty to a crown. In a new Fox Business clip, Trump waves off the idea that a government shutdown was timed to collide with those rallies: “A king… this is…
Source: Steve Christo – Corbis / Getty OpenAI recently announced that it is pausing the ability to generate MLK deepfakes on its video platform Sora, following a wave of public backlash over “disrespectful” AI-generated depictions of the civil rights leader. The company says the decision came after King’s estate and his daughter Bernice King formally…
Abby Phillip, host of CNN’s “NewsNight,” called out MAGA loyalist Scott Jennings for a stark difference in expectations when it comes to Democrats’ and Republicans’ bad behavior toward reporters. “I feel like we’re in an era of politicians behaving badly when it comes to journalists,” she said. CNN pundit Scott Jennings and CNN host Abby…
Stacey Dash is getting more side eyes when it comes to her looks. The 58-year-old was one of the Black “it girls” of the ’90s and early 2000s and would book roles in movies and music videos solely based on her beauty. But as she’s gotten older — and aligned herself with right-wing politics —…
Source: MAGA supporters are right about one thing: Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Where they are mistaken, however, is that they define TDS as a mental condition in which people are irrationally fearful of President Donald Trump and angry about how he governs. We call him a fascist because we have TDS, not because he’s…
Source: Anadolu / Getty I’m struggling to find the words to capture the sheer panic I feel right now, but it’s a panic born of truth: the very foundation of our representative democracy is under threat. What’s unfolding before the U.S. Supreme Court over Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 isn’t a…
