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Black Friday crowds thin amid pandemic fears and online deals

The retail bonanza known as Black Friday has traditionally included hordes of amped-up consumers creating lots of mayhem as they...

Kim Kardashian visits death row inmate Julius Jones

Kim Kardashian’s visit to Oklahoma with death row inmate, Julius Jones, is being heralded as a big morale booster for...

News November 28, 2020

Cindy McCain being considered for Biden’s ambassador to UK

President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly expected to name Cindy McCain as his ambassador to the UK. A fierce critic of...

Cop assaults man videotaping police stop

Joe Bennett, a Black man who was filming police as they stopped another Black motorist in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was ordered...

Featured News Politics November 28, 2020

Trump-ordered recount widens Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin

A recount in Wisconsin’s largest county didn’t go the way President Donald Trump‘s reelection campaign planned as President-elect Joe Biden...

Entertainment Featured November 22, 2020

Critics say HBO’s ‘Between the World and Me’ is a must-watch

“Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2015 bestseller, is a powerful memoir written in the form of a letter...

Chris Christie calls Trump’s legal team an embarrassment

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump advised the president on Sunday to end...

Mauree Turner, America’s first nonbinary state legislator, shares her story

As previously reported in theGrio, Mauree Turner from Oklahoma, made history as the first Muslim and the first nonbinary person...

Featured News Politics Washington DC November 22, 2020

Biden inauguration expected to be downsized from prior years amid pandemic

The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will be a “scaled-down” version of existing traditions in order to prevent the spread...

Featured News November 21, 2020

7 Black men say detective filed false charges against them

A New York narcotics officer, Camilo Antonini, is being accused of filing false charges against 7 Black men. Gothamist/WNYC obtained...

Featured News November 21, 2020

Jeremih is out of the ICU and on the road to recovery

After coming down with COVID-19 and being treated in the ICU of a Chicago hospital, R&B singer, Jeremih, is on...

Featured News November 21, 2020

Biden will receive @POTUS account from Facebook, Twitter

Today, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. announced they will transfer control of the @POTUS account to President-elect Joe Biden‘s administration...

Featured News November 21, 2020

Caller tells Rush Limbaugh he’s willing to give his life for Trump

On Friday, a caller on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show couldn’t hold back tears as confessed his allegiance to Donald Trump,...

Featured News Politics November 21, 2020

Black finance professionals push for top posts in Biden administration

As President-elect Joe Biden‘s transition team focuses on filling senior White House, Cabinet and federal posts, progressive Democrats are mobilizing...

Entertainment Featured November 15, 2020

Fresh Prince reunion will feature both Aunt Vivians

A picture of a smiling Will Smith sandwiched between both women who played Aunt Viv at different times on the...

Featured Sports November 15, 2020

Cavaliers player Kevin Porter Jr. arrested on gun charges

Following a car crash on Sunday morning, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested in Ohio and booked on...

Featured Sports November 15, 2020

Kobe Bryant’s childhood hoop has hit the auction block

The basketball hoop that Kobe Bryant practiced his famous jump shot on during his childhood is set to hit the...

Entertainment Featured November 15, 2020

New details indicate Mo3 was chased before fatal shooting

Hundreds of fans gathered outside Dallas City Hall on Friday night to pay tribute to rapper Mo3 who was shot...

Featured News Politics November 15, 2020

Dominion Voting Systems has receipts disproving Trump’s fraud claims

This week, multiple conservative news sources have made the claim that vote-counting software used in the 2020 election was programmed...

Featured Politics November 14, 2020

Thousands march in D.C. after Trump’s election fraud claims

On Saturday, President Donald Trump waved at protestors as his motorcade slowly drove through the crowds. On his way to...