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In "Star Stories With Touré," I talk about meeting the mercurial rapper nearly 20 years ago and seeing the roots…
/ August 17, 2023
Trump slammed Chutkan in a post on Truth Social, calling her "highly partisan" and "very biased." Abigail Jo Shry threatened…
/ August 17, 2023
Paramount Global will not sell its majority stake in BET Media Group, which includes BET, the BET+ streaming service and…
/ August 17, 2023
DMonterrioGibson -- FedEx driver shot at in Mississippi
Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Case, were charged with attempted murder, conspiracy and shooting at D’Monterrio Gibson in 2022.
/ August 17, 2023
Philadelphia Zoo names new president
Jo-Elle Mogerman is making history as the first woman and African American to hold the position of president and CEO…
/ August 17, 2023
fountain honoring Black students
The fountain will commemorate the first five African American students who integrated the Johnson City-based ETSU in the late 1950s.
/ August 17, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had already been set as the headliner at the Faith & Freedom BBQ on Aug. 28.…
/ August 17, 2023
Bélizaire and the Frey Children painting
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is spotlighting Bélizaire, an enslaved boy hidden beneath a coat of overpaint in a 19th-century…
/ August 17, 2023
Buffalo supermarket shooting, theGrio.com
YouTube, Reddit and a body armor manufacturer were among the businesses that helped enable the gunman who killed 10 Black…
/ August 17, 2023
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, DOJ investigation, theGrio.com
The Oklahoma Supreme Court will consider a reparations case from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after a lower…
/ August 17, 2023
The Little Rock School District said Wednesday it will continue offering an Advanced Placement course on African American studies despite Arkansas education…
/ August 17, 2023
Insurgents killed 17 soldiers and wounded nearly 24 in the first major attack in half a year against the army…
/ August 17, 2023