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June 8, 2022
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday called a special legislative session to redraw Louisiana's congressional boundary lines.
June 8, 2022
Xernona Clayton has been working for racial harmony since the civil rights movement began, and refuses to accept mass killings…
June 8, 2022
Congress is holding hearings in the aftermath of back-to-back mass shootings. Families of the victims and survivors of the mass…
June 8, 2022
Oprah Winfrey has chosen 19-year-old Leila Mottley's “Nightcrawling,” a debut novel about a young Black woman from East Oakland, for next book…
June 8, 2022
From toilet paper to yogurt and coffee to corn chips, manufacturers are quietly shrinking package sizes without lowering prices.
June 8, 2022
Brittney Griner's release is tied up with a U.S. executive convicted of spying in Russia and who has citizenship in…
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso
June 8, 2022
An early tally of mail-in ballots showed Caruso with 41% and Bass with 38%. A candidate needed to top 50%…
June 7, 2022
Pasquotank County Commissioners approved a $3 million settlement with the kin of Andrew Brown, Jr. who deputies killed in 2021.
June 7, 2022
The US is in a “heightened threat environment" already DHS said in the latest National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.
June 7, 2022
VP Kamala Harris will have an opportunity to connect with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean as she welcomes…
June 7, 2022
The gunmen who killed at least 50 people at a Catholic church in Nigeria opened fire on worshippers inside and…
Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio thegrio.com
June 7, 2022
The former top leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and other members were charged with seditious conspiracy for…
June 7, 2022
Louisiana's governor will call the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that…
June 7, 2022
Multiple Black artists were nominated in every single Tony Award performance category. But COVID-19 sickened actors and starved box offices.
June 7, 2022
Ryanair says it's forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove…
June 6, 2022
Better climate-related research and early warning systems are needed as extreme weather affects the African continent, said Sudanese billionaire Mo…
June 6, 2022
Harry Johannes Knoesen was convicted of plotting to overthrow the South African government and to kill thousands of Black people.
June 6, 2022
Most of Axon's ethics board resigned over placing weaponized drones in communities of color. The device has been tabled.
June 6, 2022
A significant shift away from the “get tough” philosophy of the 1980s and ’90s for youth offenders has resulted in…
June 5, 2022
The Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students announced a $4.5 million pledge to help pay for the plan.