Olivia Miles has fought back from a knee injury. She’s set to return in Notre Dame’s star backcourt
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There were plenty of days that Olivia Miles felt the pangs of frustration building alongside the pain and soreness, all part of the Notre Dame All-American point guard’s push to rehab her way back from a serious knee injury. Sometimes it came during the exercise she hated most: lying on the ground, […]
Downballot: The 10 weirdest politicians on the 2024 ballot
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. As the 2024 election nears, theGrio’s Downballot series explores the issues, races and individual candidates appearing on the ballots in state and local elections. “Weird” isn’t necessarily an insult. It’s an adjective used to […]
Meta’s Movie Gen May Be a Double-Edged Sword When It Comes to Content Creation
In a major development, Meta has announced the upcoming launch of a groundbreaking AI-powered video and editing tool for Reels that will revolutionize social media content creation and the future of digital communication—at least according to Mark Zuckerberg. Meta Movie Gen will allow users to create up to 16 seconds of AI-powered videos using text […]
Ray J has a ‘news’ show called ‘The Reality Check’ on YouTube. I have a lot of questions
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. To know me is to know that I’m a fan of William Ray Norwood Jr., better known to the world as Ray J. While it is often easy to get a joke off at […]
Jon Batiste’s ‘Beethoven Blues’ transforms classical works into unique blues and gospel renditions
NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night haunts in the heart of New Orleans.” Free from the rigidity of genre, but also a dedicated student of it, his […]
3 Lessons Learned During My 2-Year Hiatus From Entrepreneurship
There is an old cliche that says, “Health is the ultimate wealth.” Like me, many have heard this and agreed with it, even if we let it go in one ear and out the other. I thrived off being the “it” person. I enjoyed others looking to me to be “it” and do “it” all—whether […]
A retired Houston officer, who once arrested George Floyd, gets 60 years in a couple’s drug raid deaths that revealed corruption
HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston police officer was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder of a married couple during a drug raid that revealed systemic corruption in the department’s narcotics unit and prompted criticism of the law enforcement agency and its tactics. Gerald Goines was convicted in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle, […]
