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June 17, 2019
Brazil's supreme court officially made homophobia and transphobia crimes similar to racism on Thursday, with the final justices casting their…
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2019. Abrams says that she has not yet decided on the next steps in her political career. Many are calling on the Georgia Democrat to run for president or to serve as another Democrat’s running mate, but Abrams says she won’t rush any decision on her political future. (AP Photo/Kali Robinson)
June 17, 2019
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Thursday she has not ruled out running for another political office.Abrams, who spoke…
In this June 7, 2019 file photo, Jerri Hrubes stands next to her son DJ during a news conference Friday, June 7, 2019, in Salt Lake City. About 100 protesters gathered outside a police agency, Friday, June 14, to demand an officer who pulled his gun on 10-year-old Hrubes last week be fired. The officer's actions drew criticism after Jerri Hrubes said the white police officer pulled his gun on her son, DJ, who is black, while he was playing on his grandmother's front lawn on June 6. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
June 17, 2019
[griojw id=”9ZbYzbDA” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   About 100 protesters gathered outside a police agency in northern Utah to demand an officer who
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to local residents at Clinton Community College, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Clinton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
June 13, 2019
During a campaign swing through Iowa this week, Joe Biden mentioned that his family recently dined with former President Barack…
racism thegrio.com
June 13, 2019
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has hired an outside law firm to investigate reports that a group of minority middle…
Ta-Nehisi Coates National Correspondent, The Atlantic; Author, ?We Were Eight Years in Power? appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
June 13, 2019
The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade…
A man identified as Sonny Webber, right, father of Brandon Webber who was reportedly shot by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening, joins a standoff as protesters take to the streets of the Frayser community in anger against the shooting, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian via AP)
June 13, 2019
Armed officers and an angry crowd faced off after a Tennessee man was fatally shot by U.S. Marshals in a…
Elaine Welteroth visits Build Studio on June 11, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)
June 12, 2019
When she was about to graduate from college, Elaine Welteroth came up with a life plan: She'd hit the top…
June 12, 2019
The voting system for electing judges to Arkansas' top courts violates black residents' rights by diluting the strength of their…
June 11, 2019
[griojw id=”zl9RifFX” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   A New York City street has been named for rapper Notorious B.I.G. Community members and elected
June 10, 2019
 The June 12, 1994, killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman brought the "Trial of the Century"…
Bushwick Bill
June 10, 2019
[griojw id=”bAPp5nrQ” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Bushwick Bill, the diminutive, one-eyed rapper who with the Geto Boys helped put the South’s stamp
June 10, 2019
After 25 years living under the shadow of one of the nation’s most notorious murder cases, O.J. Simpson says his
June 10, 2019
[griojw id=”QMFYoAm2″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was hospitalized Monday following surgery for a gunshot wound
June 9, 2019
[griojw id=”t4dAPBpc” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   An Atlanta rapper’s take on country music has inspired a mostly nonverbal autistic boy in Minnesota
Kamala Harris
June 9, 2019
[griojw id=”w4hMttK6″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”]   Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says her experience as a prosecutor has given her insight into
Bushwick Bill
June 9, 2019
Reports circulated early sunday morning that Geto Boys rapper Bushwick Bill had passed away. But his son claims his father
Yusef Salaam the Exonerated Five thegrio.com
June 8, 2019
Michael B. Jordan told the men known as the Central Park Five Friday that he cannot watch footage of the…
June 7, 2019
R&B singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty to 11 additional sex-related charges on Thursday, including four counts that carry a…
June 7, 2019
Denzel Washington was the man of the hour Thursday night with everyone from Julia Roberts to Spike Lee turning out…