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Expulsion of Tennessee lawmakers illustrates Republican opposition to Black protests 

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Basketball is in a good place with NBA’s new labor deal

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I went 24 hours without lotion just to see what it felt like. What a terrible, terrible idea.

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Tennessee Republicans just demonstrated they care more about upholding white supremacy and silencing Black voices than dealing with gun violence

Republicans expelled two Black lawmakers for protesting gun violence rather than addressing the school shooting that spurred the protest.
/ April 7, 2023

Why we should care about the Wisconsin Supreme Court win

While abortion rights were a key driver in turnout, the closely watched election may impact voting rights and the 2024…
/ April 7, 2023

That time the intro to AZ’s ‘What’s The Deal’ embarrassed me because the album version did not start like the music video

The lead single from AZ's album, 'Pieces of a Man' had a non-family-friendly intro that I didn't know about prior…
/ April 6, 2023
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Spanking is a holdover from slavery, so stop hitting your kids

We think spanking is a Black thing, but no, it's a white European tradition that we adopted. We're replicating slave…
/ April 6, 2023
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: My kid accidentally dropped an iPad in the sewer

You haven't lived until you've stuck your head in a sewer grate hoping Pennywise can hand you the iPad your…
/ April 5, 2023
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Top 10 Pharrell Williams songs featuring the artist as lead vocalist

In celebration of Pharrell Williams’ 50th birthday, theGrio counts down his 10 best songs as the featured singer or rapper.
/ April 5, 2023
Union organizer and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson

Chicago mayor’s race: Brandon Johnson’s win sparks a new hope, but it comes with a healthy dose of cynicism

For Black residents of the city, there’s always a whiff of hope that a Black mayor will be the one…
/ April 5, 2023

My son wants to be a lawyer. So my family held a mock ‘criminal’ trial. Shenanigans ensued.

I was the prosecutor who brought my wife up on charges. My daughter was the judge, my son was her…
/ April 5, 2023

Dear white people: Martin Luther King Jr. is not Black Jesus. He did not die for our ‘sins.’

So often, when weaponizing MLK against Black people, white people like to lecture us about "what he died for" as…
/ April 4, 2023
Political commentator Matt Walsh

Wait until you hear why this conservative thinks Black people don’t deserve reparations

Matt Walsh argues that the world is better off now because slavery existed in the past and that Black people…
/ April 4, 2023
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Martin Luther King Jr. was ‘woke’

If King were alive, he would be fighting to protect affirmative action, and conservatives who revere him now would be…
/ April 4, 2023
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When it comes to school shootings, be as outraged as Rep. Jamaal Bowman

The New York representative blasted Republicans for their refusal to take action on common sense gun-violence legislation.
/ April 3, 2023