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Goldman Sachs diversity initiatives
January 12, 2024
Goldman Sachs has now nixed a 2018 diversity initiative after reportedly reaching its goal to invest $1 billion into Black…
Martin Luther King Jr. - MLK Day 2024
January 12, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. is commemorated annually on the third Monday in January,
Don Lemon, CNN, fired, TIME100 theGrio.com
January 11, 2024
Lemon has announced that he's launching a new show on X, a career move that comes nine months after his…
Florida defamation bill
January 10, 2024
A Florida Republican lawmaker has introduced a measure making it an act of defamation to accuse someone of homophobia, sexism,…
January 10, 2024
Missouri's North Kansas City Schools announced on Facebook that Yarl was one of four area students to be among the…
Josephine Wright Hilton Head island
January 10, 2024
Wright died Sunday surrounded by loved ones, her granddaughter confirmed on a GoFundMe page collecting donations.
Virginia NAACP town hall meetings
January 8, 2024
The Lynchburg chapter of the NAACP is hosting a town hall meeting to address racist flyers left outside of dozens…
IHOP Mesquite Texas
January 8, 2024
A manager and two staffers were fired from a Texas IHOP after a waitress there refused to serve a Black…
January 5, 2024
In a letter, Southwest Allen County Schools Superintendent Park Ginder urged parents to talk to their kids about proper internet…
Mark Cuban - what is DEI
January 5, 2024
Elon Musk took to X to call DEI "another word for racism," then Cuban, the billionaire businessman and investor, responded…
Jonathan Majors verdict
January 5, 2024
Linsey Davis will interview Majors, the former Marvel star, on "Good Morning America" on Monday, with more airing on "GMA3."
US Rowing Coach Skye Elliot
January 4, 2024
A Black U.S.-based rowing coach and his colleagues are calling for change after alleging they faced racist treatment at an…
Claudine Gay resignation
January 4, 2024
Gay's resignation marked the shortest tenure for a president at Harvard after her critics "relentlessly campaigned," she wrote.
Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron
January 4, 2024
Cameron, Kentucky's former attorney general, has taken on a new role helming a non-profit group that opposes "woke capitalism."
Snoop Dogg Olympics
January 3, 2024
Snoop Dogg is set to serve as a prime-time commentator for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, slated to begin…
Kevin Hart, Kobe Bryant, Nicole Ari Parker, A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Strahan, Black celebrity children, celebrity parents sending their children to college, theGrio.com
December 28, 2023
Kevin Hart has filed a lawsuit against his former assistant following an interview she did with embattled YouTuber Tasha K.
December 28, 2023
On Wednesday, parks and recreation workers removed a Black Lives Memorial garden planted in 2020 from Seattle's Cal Anderson Park.
December 28, 2023
Celebrities are mourning the death of Rivers, the actor, radio personality and Food Network star who died from an unknown…
December 28, 2023
Family members are calling for the firing and prosecution of L.A. sheriff's deputy Ty Shelton, who recently shot and killed…
wrongful convictions oregon
December 22, 2023
Oregonians who were wrongfully convicted are not receiving compensation over a year after a new measure was put into place…