John Lewis bronze statue replaces Confederate monument in Decatur, Georgia
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews gently rested the 12-foot-tall (3.7-meter-tall) […]
Family of Airman Roger Fortson demand Florida deputy face charges for fatal shooting
More than three months after a U.S. Air Force airman was gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy, his family and their lawyer are demanding that prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against the former lawman. At a Friday news conference, civil rights attorney Ben Crump questioned why the investigation has taken so long, noting that the […]
NCAA rules prohibit incoming Michigan State tennis player Matthew Forbes from cashing in at US Open
NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Forbes won the USTA 18-under singles boys national title to earn a spot in the U.S. Open later this month. If Forbes enrolls as planned for his freshman season this year at Michigan State, he can’t cash in on the minimum of $100,000 in prize money from the Grand Slam tennis tournament. […]
Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here’s a closer look at what’s in them
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical costs that she says will empower the middle class. The plans constitute the first major policy proposals that Harris has released in the nearly four weeks since President Joe Biden bowed out of the race and endorsed […]
Jury convicts white Florida woman in fatal shooting of her Black neighbor during ongoing dispute
A white Florida woman was convicted Friday of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black neighbor after the jury rejected her claims that she fired through a metal door in self-defense amid an ongoing dispute over children playing outside her home. The all-white jury in Ocala, Florida, found 60-year-old Susan Lorincz guilty after 2 1/2 hours […]
How the next president can decide the future of the Supreme Court
Election 2024 will be about way more than picking a president. In this week’s episode of theGrio Weekly, we share Part 3 of our interview with Jara Butler, chief impact officer at Supermajority Ed Fund, where we discuss the impact of the presidential election on the Supreme Court. “Our Supreme Court justices are also seated […]
Hal Elrod and The Miracle Morning Ecosystem
Hal Elrod has been through a lot in his lifetime. In 1999, at age 20, he was hit by a drunk driver and found dead at the scene. He stopped breathing, and for six minutes, his heart didn’t beat. Despite 11 broken bones and permanent brain damage, he was miraculously revived. When he woke up […]
How to Tend to Functional Freeze So It Doesn’t Hijack Your Productivity
It’s 9 p.m. and your phone pings. It’s an urgent message from your boss. You feel your heart rate spike. The dread spreads into the rest of your body, but you have to muscle through it. Karden Rabin, somatic nervous practitioner and co-author of The Secret Language of the Body calls this feeling “functional freeze.” […]
I Tested Out a Hotel’s “Hush Trip” Package Designed for Digital Nomads and Learned How Remote Workers Are Changing the Tourism Industry
I work for myself, so I have the ability to venture off to an undisclosed location on behalf of anyone who has a boss breathing down their neck. And by that, I mean monitoring your every move, trying to get you to clock in and out, and generally overstepping as you navigate hybrid or remote […]
