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We have no right to despair in the struggle for democracy

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Actors Halle Berry and Eddie Murphy in "Boomerang"

28 Days of Black Movies: 10 quotables from ‘Boomerang’ that are still in rotation today

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The Brian Flores complaint, explained

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Brian Flores

Black people know what it’s like to be Brian Flores

Black people know what it’s like to crash painfully into the glass ceiling after years of working hard and doing…
/ February 2, 2022
Mary McLeod Bethune

The Beautiful Minds: The secret history of the Black Brain Trust

This is the origin story of critical race theory, the great migration and the civil rights movement.
/ February 2, 2022
Ron DeSantis theGrio

What in the hell is wrong with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis?

I know I am asking a rather loaded question. But it is one for which I have been desperately searching
/ February 2, 2022
"Love Jones" theGrio

28 Days of Black Movies: I think it’s time we all acknowledge that ‘Love Jones’ signature poem, ‘Brother to the Night (A Blues for Nina)’ is terrible

Oh, stop it, you know it’s true that spoken-word jam sucks. But let me make the case. Buckle up, Buttercup.
/ February 2, 2022
Actors Sanaa Lathan, in a brown jacket, and Taye Diggs, dressed in black, sitting on a park bench

28 Days of Black Movies: Taye Diggs did the best and Blackest acting of his career in ‘Brown Sugar.’ Let me explain

"Brown Sugar" is my favorite movie." Full stop. I can watch "Brown Sugar" over and over and never get bored.
/ February 1, 2022
Cheslie Kryst theGrio

Thoughts from a colored girl who has considered suicide…often

Cheslie Kryst's death hit me hard. It also didn’t help that this was the third suicide in the last week…
/ February 1, 2022
Black history vs. CRT

What is Black History Month during the war on critical race theory?

Black History Month 2022 arrives in the middle of a war against Black history that its enemies are winning.
/ February 1, 2022
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Biden must bring Black deported veterans home

President Biden has the opportunity to right a grievous wrong. Black people who served in the U.S. armed forces are…
/ January 31, 2022
theGrio Denzel

Denzel as Macbeth is worth the effort

I made it through The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple TV+) largely because I love Denzel Washington, who plays the title…
/ January 28, 2022

Fatherhood Fridays, Vol. 3: My daughter just turned 13. I have learned some lessons about myself in those years

Yesterday, my first-born child and my only daughter turned 13 years old. It’s interesting how much of an accomplishment that…
/ January 28, 2022

We must continue to rewrite the Confederacy’s revisionist history

The Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Whose Heritage?' project—which tracks the removal of Confederate memorials—is set for release next month.
/ January 28, 2022

Joe Rogan is gone, y’all

Unfortunately, Spotify podcaster Joe Rogan has descended down a rabbit hole from which white boys usually don’t emerge.
/ January 27, 2022