HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 17: Nelly performs onstage at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 17, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images) Nelly sparked backlash when he agreed to perform during President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities. According to Nelly, when he accepted the invitation to perform during President…
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 08: Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) joins DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta (D-PA) and hosts Clay Cane and Reecie Colbert for a SiriusXM Town Hall on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for SiriusXM) The Texas congresswoman tells theGrio she will be focusing her attention more on…
The drama never seems to end for Wendy Williams, and this time it’s coming from an unexpected source. Her former manager and ex-husband Kevin Hunter has launched his own legal crusade to liberate the entertainer from the guardianship that has governed her daily life for the past three years, but Williams isn’t having any of…
Source: David Berding / Getty NBA star and activist Kyrie Irving has donated $50,000 to a fundraiser launched to support the creation of a youth center honoring the legacy of Tamir Rice. Nearly a decade after 12-year-old Tamir Rice was killed by Cleveland police, his name continues to echo, not as a headline but rather…
FILE – The Rotunda is shown at the University of Virginia on March 1, 2024, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File) Under pressure from the Justice Department, UVA President James Ryan resigns as Trump administration intensifies crackdown on DEI programs at public universities. The president of the University of Virginia is resigning his position…
It won’t be official until next week, but Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist endorsed by progressive New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has toppled the scandal-plagued former governor and Democratic establishment candidate Andrew Cuomo and won New York City’s mayoral primary. A New York state assemblyman based in Queens since 2020, Mamdani ran for…
Photo credit: Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdani, Denzel Washington (Getty Images) The top democratic mayoral candidate is the son of filmmaker and director of “Mississippi Masala,” Mira Nair. Before Zohran Mamdani took New York City’s mayoral race by storm and secured the Democratic ticket, his mother was artfully portraying Black and brown love on screen. Mamdani’s…
Photos by Getty Images/Collage by TheGrio Eric Adams is bypassing the Democratic Party and betting big on his working-class appeal, launching an independent reelection bid against progressive rising star Zohran Mamdani. New York Mayor Eric Adams set out Thursday to persuade skeptical voters to grant him a second term, hosting a kickoff event for his independent reelection…
Source: Liubomyr Vorona / Getty In a significant move toward advancing inclusivity in technology, Howard University and Google Research have unveiled a new dataset designed to enhance how automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems serve Black users. The collaboration, part of Project Elevate Black Voices, involved researchers traveling nationwide to document the unique dialects, accents, and…
Shocking cellphone footage caught the moments a female passenger demanded an upgrade to business class during a mid-air meltdown on an international flight. The unidentified passenger boarded a flight from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, according to reports. After the flight took off, the outburst happened. A video screenshot shows a woman yelling…
