Opinion

OPINION: Dr. Sheldon Applewhite says Black LGBTQ voices have been muted or ignored, both as champions of freedom and as…
/ June 28, 2020
OPINION: Aaron Walker, founder and CEO of Camelback Ventures, highlights the barriers faced by entrepreneurs of color in the world…
/ June 27, 2020
The solution isn’t just that Black voice actors should be guaranteed Black animated roles. The real problem is that white…
/ June 26, 2020
Writer Ernest Owens explains how the Black Lives Movement coupled with Pride Month has created quite the dilemma as a…
/ June 25, 2020
Black vote thegrio.com
The governors and state legislators who are enacting laws designed to stop Black Americans from voting are doing so to…
/ June 25, 2020
The interruption of fact-less oppressive speech is an important strategy in dismantling white supremacy.
/ June 24, 2020
Juneteenth thegrio.com
“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous.” Who said this? Was it Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. President who
/ June 24, 2020
While the TV landscape has changed, behind the scenes Black and minority writers are still struggling to get their feet…
/ June 24, 2020
Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says now is the time to make Americans in the US territories full citizens…
/ June 24, 2020
theGrio's Dr. Jason Johnson lays out a non-radical approach to how cities can 'abolish' the police without completely getting rid…
/ June 23, 2020
Books are forever friends that help contextualize the moment, give the reader a better understanding of self and community, and…
/ June 22, 2020
theGrio's Managing Editor Gerren Keith Gaynor reflects on his complicated relationship with his father, who didn't accept his sexuality before…
/ June 21, 2020