Black History Month

Mike Pence theGrio.com
In an interview on CBS News’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence thinks Black Lives Matter is a “radical-left agenda,” which is why he will not say “black lives matter.”
/ June 28, 2020
Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., the last of three Ku Klux Klansmen convicted in a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four Black girls, died Friday in prison.
/ June 28, 2020
Shane Dawson_ Willow Smith theGrio.com
YouTuber Shane Dawson’s reaction of then-11-year-old Willow Smith has gotten him in big trouble, again, drawing outrage from Smith’s mother and brother.
/ June 27, 2020
Educators for Black Lives Matter theGrio.com
Teachers gathered to march on the golden dome of Georgia State’s capitol to ask the legislature to focus more resources for underserved children.
/ June 27, 2020
Robertson Hall, home to Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs theGrio.com
Princeton University will remove the name of its racist former president that once blocked Black students from enrollment.
/ June 27, 2020
Lyda Krewson theGrio.com
St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson apologized for doxxing police protesters who want to defund the department. She claims the information was already public.
/ June 27, 2020
Prince Harry Meghan Markle thegrio.com
Now that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have made their Megxit, they are signing with a big-time speaker’s bureau for paid speaking engagements.
/ June 26, 2020