A Black woman who was allegedly dragged from her car, beaten and knocked unconscious by two Solano County, California, deputy sheriffs during a family road trip in 2020 will receive $17 million in a settlement with the county, her lawyer announced this week. Nakia Porter, then 33, her father, Joe Powell, then 61, her two…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty For the past several months, the Trump administration has been pressuring red-state governors to engage in a rare, mid-decade redistricting process to protect the GOP’s narrow House majority. While Texas and Missouri have successfully implemented new congressional maps, Indiana’s redistricting effort appears to be stalling out, and Utah may…
Serena Williams’ husband, Alexis Ohanian, walked right onto the set at Stephen A. Smith’s job to confront the sports analyst face-to-face for talking about his wife. The Reddit co-founder entered the studio where ESPN’s “First Take” was filming Thursday morning with the kind of calm energy to settle a score with the usually boisterous commentator…
Getty Images “I think you had some marriage advice for me,” Alexis Ohanian confronted the ESPN host for comments about Serena Williams’ Super Bowl cameo. One thing Alexis Ohanian doesn’t play about is his wife, Serena Williams. The Reddit co-founder and husband to the 23-time Grand Slam champion is no stranger to defending his wife…
Nia Long is in a peaceful place with her former fiancé, Ime Udoka, three years after their public cheating scandal that destroyed their family. Udoka was suspended from his role as the head coach of the Boston Celtics team after violating team policies by engaging in an intimate relationship with a female staffer, causing turmoil…
Kalybriah “KB” Haskin and Edmond Harvey. (Photo credit: Netflix Youtube) “Love is Blind” fans rally behind KB amid her fight with Edmond Harvey and call out negative portrayals of Black women on reality TV. Since Netflix’s hit reality TV series “Love Is Blind” has returned for another season—this time in Denver—there is one couple that…
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid unloaded on Vice President JD Vance this week after he singled her out on social media Thursday, accusing her of lacking gratitude toward the United States for the good life she has. Reid responded with a profanity-laced clapback, slamming Vance for deliberately targeting her amid a climate of hostile rhetoric…
Source: Albany Times Union/Hearst Newspapers / Getty Welp, it happened, y’all — our petty, vindictive, sore loser and sore winner of a president has used the power of his position to seek revenge against New York Attorney General Letitia James. After President Donald Trump put public pressure on his own attorney general, Pam Bondi, to…
Books by Black authors that have been challenged or banned from libraries This Banned Book Week, theGrio is spotlighting page-turners that have been challenged and/or banned in libraries across the U.S. Every year, Banned Books Week shines a light on the stories some people would rather see erased. At a time when literacy rates in…
A prominent Black real estate agent taking pictures of a property at an oceanfront community in Delray Beach, Florida, said she was “accosted” by a white man who questioned her and spewed a racial slur. The agent, Tori Easterling, captured the aftermath in a video and posted it to TikTok on August 10, the same…
