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Lee Merritt
October 14, 2019
A white Fort Worth police officer who shot and killed a black woman through a back window of her home…
Simone Biles thegrio.com
October 14, 2019
 Next stop Tokyo for Simone Biles.With Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps both retired since the last Olympics in Rio de…
Queen Latifah Eboni Nichols thegrio.com
October 14, 2019
Music artist and actress Queen Latifah is among the honorees being recognized by Harvard University this year for their contributions…
October 8, 2019
"The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom" will draw from her whole body of work, including celebrated novels…
Michelle Obama thegrio.com
October 8, 2019
Michelle Obama's first project since "Becoming" is more about her readers than about herself.
Bill Cosby AP thegrio.com
September 25, 2019
The 82-year-old Cosby had challenged a California arbitration award that upheld nearly $7 million of a $9 million bill submitted…
police
September 25, 2019
Charges will not be filed against two white ex-Detroit police officers who were fired amid an investigation into racist comments…
Dr. King thegrio.com
September 24, 2019
A St. Louis newscaster who has been off the air since uttering what he called an unintentional racial slur while…
In this Sept. 13, 2019 file photo, fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger, right, arrives for jury selection in her murder trial at the Frank Crowley Courthouse in downtown Dallas. The murder trial for a Guyger who shot and killed Botham Jean, an unarmed black man in his Dallas apartment is set for opening arguments Monday Sept. 23, 2019. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP File) thegrio.com
September 23, 2019
Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the murder trial of a white police officer accused of shooting her…
Will Smith thegrio.com
September 17, 2019
Will Smith and Dame Helen Mirren will read a bedtime story during a one-night fundraising event to help fight global…
Model Naomi Campbell walks the runway at the Fashion For Relief charity event in central London, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) thegrio.com
September 16, 2019
Model Naomi Campbell took center stage at London Fashion Week on Saturday night with a gala charity benefit at the…
football thegrio.com
September 16, 2019
A high school in Virginia has forfeited its upcoming football game against a rival after videos emerged of students making…
Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden, center left, joins Sen. Doug Jones and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin at a wreath laying after a service at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Visiting the black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Biden said Sunday the country hasn't "relegated racism and white supremacy to the pages of history" as he framed current tensions in the context of the movement's historic struggle for equality. (Ivana Hrynkiw/The Birmingham News via AP) thegrio.com
September 16, 2019
Visiting a black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan during the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden…
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, arrives at a department store to launch the Smart Works capsule collection in London, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) thegrio.com
September 13, 2019
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has launched a clothing line for a British charity that helps unemployed women find work.The…
Harriet_thegrio
September 12, 2019
Hard as it may be to believe, "Harriet" is the first feature film about Harriet Tubman.Kasi Lemmons' movie about the…
Synobia Reckley pauses on a wet mattress as her husband Dexter Edwards consoles her amid the remains of their home destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in Rocky Creek East End, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. The couple married two days after Hurricane Mathew hit in 2016 but did not do serious damage. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) thegrio.com
September 11, 2019
Lisa Head and Gina Knowles galvanized donations through their HeadKnowles Foundation to help the people of the Bahamas most affected…
The Tribute in Light rises above the lower Manhattan skyline, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in New York. Wednesday marks the 18th anniversary of the terror attacks against the United States of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) thegrio.com
September 11, 2019
Americans commemorated 9/11 with solemn ceremonies and vows Wednesday to "never forget" 18 years after the deadliest terror attacks on…
Rihanna thegrio.com
September 11, 2019
Big Sean, A$ap Ferg, Halsey and Migos rocked Rihanna's Savage X Fenty crowd Tuesday from a color-saturated stage at the…
Gavel Money thgrio.com
September 11, 2019
A jury has awarded $11.4 million to a black couple who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Michigan Department of…
Eddie Murphy thegrio.com
September 10, 2019
It took Eddie Murphy more than a decade to get a movie made about Rudy Ray Moore. Judging by the…