Vanessa Williams attends “The Cottage” Broadway Opening Night at Hayes Theater on July 24, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images) “Had there been an internet to break back then, it would have shattered to pieces,” Williams says. Vanessa Williams is opening up about her past, present, and future in a new…
Jordan Chiles competes in the floor exercise on Day Four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Gymnastics Trials at Target Center on June 30, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles shares how she’s asserted herself in her sport, her family’s sacrifices, and navigating grief ahead of the Olympics….
Exodus guitarist Gary Holt is not a Beyoncé fan. And as it pertains to his list of remarkably talented artists, the “Godfather of trash metal” will gladly exclude the singer in favor of Taylor Swift. The rock star did just that when he ripped the “Renaissance” superstar and shaded her 12-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter,…
Vice President Kamala Harris is shown at the NCAA championship teams celebration on the South Lawn of the White House this week and on the cover of her memoir, which is drawing renewed interest. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images); Cover: Penguin Random House Initially released in 2019, Kamala Harris’ memoir spans her political and criminal…
Source: Joe Scarnici / Getty With the 2024 Paris Olympic Games set to begin, the USA is bringing out its best as flag bearers. The latest athlete to carry the honor is Coco Gauff, officially named Team USA’s female flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony. Gauff makes history as the first tennis player to get…
Michael Thompson had broken no law when he entered a 7-Eleven convenience store and asked the clerk to call 911 on his behalf because he was suffering a mental episode. But El Paso police arrived and killed the 36-year-old Black father of two children and U.S. Army veteran. Now Thompson’s mother, Barbara Thompson, has filed…
Tananarive Due OPINION: To know Kamala Harris is to know she is the real deal and that this level of leadership was always a possibility, 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 know Vice President Kamala Harris. We were introduced years ago when…
U.S. Olympian Coco Gauff celebrates her announcement as a flag bearer at the Team USA Welcome Experience on July 23 in Paris. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for USOPC) Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer in the Olympic opening ceremony. Black excellence will be at the forefront of the…
Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty In his upcoming memoir, Fred Trump, nephew of former President Donald Trump, recalls that his uncle used racial slurs at the beginning of his billion-dollar New York real estate career. Fred wrote that Donald Trump, now 78 years old, angrily used the n-word while falsely accusing Black individuals of vandalizing…
Corey Thompson Jr. “had a smile that would light up the darkest room” and dreams of attending college to pursue an engineering degree, but all that was shattered in the early morning hours of March 20, 2021, a few weeks before his 18th birthday. Thompson was spending the night at the home of “close friend”…
