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USHER: 30 Years in the Making | Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show (Official Trailer)
January 12, 2024
It’s Usher, baby! The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter is taking on the Super Bowel Halftime Show this year …
Goldman Sachs diversity initiatives
January 12, 2024
Goldman Sachs has now nixed a 2018 diversity initiative after reportedly reaching its goal to invest $1 billion into Black businesses.
January 12, 2024
The movie’s two male stars, Domingo and Hawkins broke down the ways they took on their roles in Alice Walker’s now-classic story.
January 11, 2024
Hall’s role remains under wraps in the still-untitled movie. She’s set to appear alongside Oscar winners DiCaprio and Sean Penn.
Don Lemon, CNN, fired, TIME100 theGrio.com
January 11, 2024
Lemon has announced that he’s launching a new show on X, a career move that comes nine months after his termination from CNN.
Florida defamation bill
January 10, 2024
A Florida Republican lawmaker has introduced a measure making it an act of defamation to accuse someone of homophobia, sexism, or racism.
"The Book Of Clarence" Special Screening
January 10, 2024
“The Book of Clarence” is finally here. The second feature film from the mind of Jeymes Samuel hits theaters this weekend, which sees the …
January 10, 2024
Missouri’s North Kansas City Schools announced on Facebook that Yarl was one of four area students to be among the honorees.
Josephine Wright Hilton Head island
January 10, 2024
Wright died Sunday surrounded by loved ones, her granddaughter confirmed on a GoFundMe page collecting donations.
January 10, 2024
Regina King’s next role is just months away. The Academy Award winner stars as Shirley Chisholm in the upcoming biopic …
January 10, 2024
Listen in as hosts Chelsea LeMore-Monroe and Jahliel Thurman share their top underrated male R&B groups from the ’90s.
January 9, 2024
The Weather Channel’s Paul Goodloe shares in the innovation of electric school buses making their rise in public school districts.
January 9, 2024
The USDA Forest Service has caused a firestorm by proposing that Ohio’s only national forest undergo a name change.
Harriet Tubman coins, theGrio.com
January 9, 2024
U.S. Mint officials announced that pre-sale of 2024 Harriet Tubman Commemorative Coins has launched, and orders ship next month.
January 9, 2024
“The problems that we need to solve across policing are at the institutional level,” Gavin Stephens says, that “need institutional changes.”
Virginia NAACP town hall meetings
January 8, 2024
The Lynchburg chapter of the NAACP is hosting a town hall meeting to address racist flyers left outside of dozens of residents’ homes.
January 8, 2024
You have until Feb. 9 to nominate everyday people who are working to improve the lives of Black people and uplift Black culture.
IHOP Mesquite Texas
January 8, 2024
A manager and two staffers were fired from a Texas IHOP after a waitress there refused to serve a Black couple because of their race.
January 8, 2024
Listen in as hosts Jahliel Thurman and Chelsea LeMore-Monroe discuss some of the best Black villains in film.
January 8, 2024
Eating clean is an achievable goal. Listen in as Dr. Michele C. Reed, discusses how to start a new health and wellness journey.