President Donald Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda. Hayden was notified in an email late Thursday from the White House’s Presidential Personnel Office, according to an email obtained by The

The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday. Buoyed by Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on transgender individuals in the military,

A 12-foot bronze statue of a Black woman with braids, wearing casual everyday wear in Times Square has people talking. While a new installation, or anything, really in New York City’s most famous tourist stop doesn’t usually stop the throngs of people moving through, the installation, titled “Grounded in the

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on college campuses didn’t stop minority students from staging their own celebration after the University of Kentucky canceled ceremonies to honor its graduates who are Black or from other historically marginalized groups. Chalk it up as a lesson learned on how to think strategically

Former President Joe Biden is not surprised that his former Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t win the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. On Thursday, during an appearance on “The View” the former president didn’t hold back in expressing his thoughts on why America elected Donald Trump for a second term instead

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Tyre Nichols should be alive. Instead, he died after being brutally beaten by five Memphis police officers, three of whom were just acquitted in a state trial of all charges related

This Mother’s Day, rapper Quavo is holding space for bereaved mothers.  On Sunday, May 4, the rapper and The Rocket Foundation teamed up with the late rapper Takeoff’s mother and grandmother, Titania Davenport and Edna Mattox, to host a brunch honoring mothers who have lost a child to gun violence

A former NFL player has pleaded guilty in Harris County, Texas, and agreed to a 30 year sentence for the 2021 murder of his ex-girlfriend and for tampering and drug charges, according to Houston’s Fox 26.  Kevin Ware, Jr., a former college football player for the University of Washington who

When Allyson Felix traded in Olympic gold medals for diaper bags and daycare pickups, the world got to see a different kind of champion in motion. Felix, the most decorated female track and field Olympian of all time, is now doing the hardest race of all—motherhood. And like many moms,

On a recent episode of Piers Morgan’s talk show, “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Marc Lamont Hill had to do what is commonly referred to in the Black community as “the Lord’s work.”  The episode focused on two recent stories in America: that of Shiloh Hendrix, the white woman in Rochester, Minnesota,