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A scene from "Good Hair"

‘Good Hair’ grows better with age

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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

A more personal view of Basquiat

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My kids have discovered FaceTime. If I have your number, it ain’t safe, it ain’t safe, it ain’t safe, it ain’t safe

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New Balance’s ‘Conversations Amongst Us’ campaign celebrates the ways we engage and communicate in the Black community

Unless you’re a sneakerhead or into urban fashion, you might not know that New Balance has been killing the collaboration…
/ April 15, 2022

‘Never Better’: A coming-of-age tale that recalls those early days when the pandemic ruled our lives

The national experience of COVID quarantine had such an impact on the American psyche that I’m sure we’ll be seeing…
/ April 15, 2022
Patrick Lyoya

How to survive America: A requiem for Patrick Lyoya 

On Wednesday, authorities released footage of a Grand Rapids, Mich., police officer shooting Patrick Lyoya in the head at point-blank…
/ April 15, 2022
Baseball player Jackie Robinson, thegrio.com

Don’t believe that whitewashed version of Jackie Robinson they keep telling you about

April 15 marks the 75th anniversary of Robinson smashing Major League Baseball’s color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn…
/ April 15, 2022

‘Atlanta’: Can you see me now?

What if "Atlanta" did a whodunit episode? Something that plays on the tropes of police investigators interrogating a suspect.
/ April 14, 2022

5 reasons why y’all need to take driver’s education again

I have had my driver’s license since I was 18 years old. That means I have over 30 years of…
/ April 14, 2022

Republicans double down on hating Black women

Republicans hate Black women, and there’s no shortage of evidence. Those who watched the hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson could…
/ April 14, 2022

‘Pastor Shirley’ is a film whose spiritual cup runneth over with abundance…of foolywang

I recently watched Pastor Shirley—check it out on April 16 and April 30 on TheGrio TV and TheGrio app—and I…
/ April 13, 2022

You can’t stain something that’s already tarnished: A rebuttal of Harry Lennix’s column suggesting Will Smith return his Oscar

TheGrio offers a rebuttal of Harry Lennix's column in Variety suggesting that Will Smith return his Oscar to restore the…
/ April 13, 2022
Amy Wax and Tucker Carlson

How a white supremacist explaining white supremacy to a white supremacist changed my mind about Tucker Carlson

I want to apologize to Tucker Carlson. First of all, there may be a perception that I hate Tucker Carlson…
/ April 12, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

What Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation means for Black women

The moment I read Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to serve on the Supreme Court, the tears that welled…
/ April 12, 2022

The lawsuit against DeRay Mckesson would have a chilling effect on the right to protest

The right to protest in America is under attack, and it all involves a case against a Black Lives Matter…
/ April 11, 2022