About Ernest Owens

Ernest Owens is the Editor at Large of Philadelphia magazine and CEO of Ernest Media Empire, LLC. The award-winning journalist has written for The New York Times, NBC News, USA Today and several other major publications. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and ernestowens.com.

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November 7, 2020
If we learned anything from this historic election and the defeat of Donald Trump, it is that the Black vote is powerful.
November 4, 2020
As Biden and Trump remain in a tight race, Black voters in major cities like Philadelphia, Atlanta and Detroit can tip the election scale.
June 25, 2020
Writer Ernest Owens explains how the Black Lives Movement coupled with Pride Month has created quite the dilemma as a Black queer man.
Amy Cooper Karen theGrio.com
June 1, 2020
OPINION: Ernest Owens says there need to be serious penalties for calling the cops on Black people for doing absolutely nothing.
May 31, 2020
On Saturday, #PhillyProtest was trending worldwide on Twitter as many major cities joined the nationwide public unrest following the recent […]
April 20, 2020
Ernest Owens says the recent expelling of two white Georgia high school students over a racist TikTok video reveals Black Americans can never catch a break.
March 18, 2020
OPINION: Writer Ernest Owens says that humor has long been the way Black America has coped with national grief and terror.
March 11, 2020
Justice was served on multiple fronts today.  Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in a New […]
Bill Cosby fan thegrio.com
October 1, 2018
Men having selective empathy for women in the era of MeToo and #TimesUp does nothing to collectively address the over arching problem of sexual abuse.
Serena Williams thegrio.com
September 10, 2018
Australia’s Herald Sun ran a cartoon depicting tennis superstar Serena Williams as a huge screaming Black monstrosity with oversized lips and grotesque facial features.
PRIDE 2018
June 15, 2018
We celebrate 15 Black LGBTQ+ advocates who are inspiring the community with their vision and leading the way for a more inclusive future.
Ernest Owens thegrio.com
May 28, 2018
As writer Ernest Owens reflects on why his great-grandfather fought for this nation’s freedoms, he realizes he is feeling less patriotic than ever this Memorial Day.
black police chiefs thegrio.com
April 18, 2018
Black police chiefs who adamantly defend what continues to be an unjust and racist system of policing are indeed a part of the problem.
MLK thegrio.com
April 4, 2018
Every MLK Day, you can expect your news feeds to be filled with nostalgic revisionist tellings about the late great Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of our time.
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
March 12, 2018
Here’s what Black people knew in 1995 and still do in 2018: Orenthal James “O. J.” Simpson was most likely involved in the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend/possible lover Ron Goldman even though he was found not guilty in the court of law.
Black Panther theGrio.com
February 16, 2018
The new blockbuster offers a rare level of escapism for a group of people who often feel ignored in the Marvel universe.
Justin Timberlake theGrio.com
February 2, 2018
Writer Ernest Owens, whose exchange with Timberlake over cultural appropriation went viral, says “Say Something” is nothing more than the singer crying wolf.
Offset theGrio.com
January 19, 2018
Offset wants us to know that we are making a fuss out of nothing because he works with “gays” that style him for TV. Go figure.
January 8, 2018
Since delivering her moving acceptance speech at the 75th annual Golden Globes, the case for Oprah Winfrey to run for president in 2020 is louder than ever before.
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
December 20, 2017
Racist sports fans and their token Black enablers naturally dont want to see Sean Diddy Combs own his own NFL team–and thats a shame.