A Black transgender organizer was killed by a Walgreens security guard on April 27 in San Francisco. Banko Brown, 24, was recently denied a housing opportunity he’d long been pursuing. Turned away from numerous homeless shelters, he eventually resigned to sleeping on the metro. Brown eventually […]
A Michigan man has been arrested and charged after police say a fit of road rage resulted in him stabbing a Black man. Police say the suspect not only pulled a knife out on his victim but slashed the man’s tires and called him a […]
A Kentucky educator has been suspended after she allowed one of her students to give a classroom history presentation costumed as the man who was the first Ku Klux Klan grand wizard. Pulaski County Schools superintendent Patrick Richardson says the incident happened during class on […]
‘A video of a police encounter showing Asheville, Nc. officers violently detaining a Black man has sparked outrage in the community. According to ABC 13 News, the officers claim he assaulted them while resisting arrest but bystanders believe they were the ones who assaulted the man. […]
Critically acclaimed blues singer Otis Taylor is receiving his high school diploma nearly six decades after he was expelled due to hair discrimination. Taylor attended Manual High School in Denver, Colorado, but his education was cut short in 1966 when school officials demanded that he cut his hair or leave. […]
TheGrio sat down with the Disney star ahead of the film’s release, covering her approach to playing the beloved character and the brand-new songs she got to record. A new Princess Ariel has arrived! Halle Bailey’s highly anticipated turn in “The Little Mermaid” live-action film […]
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