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Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Social media timelines are a lot like middle school hallways: loud, messy, and always looking for the next person to whisper about. This week, the name on everyone’s lips was North
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 26, 2025 Attorney John Bey brings nearly 20 years of experience to his new presidential role. A Black attorney from Atlanta will now lead the American Association for Justice, the largest organization for plaintiff lawyers. John Bey is officially the President-Elect of the association, bringing almost
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton August 26, 2025 Watson, who was 464 pounds before being signed as a free agent, did not lose enough weight to make the team Desmond Watson, who was the heaviest player in NFL history, may have just participated in his last bit of league action after the
Donald Trump became the first president to attempt to remove a member from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the central bank’s 111-year history. In a letter on Monday, President Trump announced that Lisa Cook, the first Black woman and woman of color to serve on the Fed board,
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 26, 2025 The woman did not officially receive her art degree until decades later. A Black woman from Georgia, who was denied her art degree decades ago, will finally get her story told on screen. In the 1970s, Gwendolyn Payton had plans to graduate from Mercer
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton August 26, 2025 The $12.932 million surpassed the $12.6 million that a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card brought in August 2022 The 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs Basketball Cards, with the signatures of Jordan and Bryant, which was expected to fetch over
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 26, 2025 Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty, skin, and hair brands are the sponsors of the WNBA reigning champs. Rihanna is making her support of women athletes known through her latest partnership with the WNBA’s New York Liberty franchise. However, it is not Rihanna herself who is becoming
That Venus Williams lost her first Grand Slam match in two years — and what she says will be her last match of 2025 — didn’t really matter Monday night. Certainly not to the thousands of supportive spectators in the Arthur Ashe Stadium seats who roared for her best shots and, in
Public schools reopened Monday in the nation’s tense capital with parents on edge over the presence in their midst of thousands of National Guard troops — some now armed — and large scatterings of federal law enforcement officers carrying out President Donald Trump’s orders to make the District of Columbia a safer
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton August 26, 2025 Serial troller 50 Cent writes, ‘Not hard to say goodbye” Perhaps the biggest troll on social media, 50 Cent, has told STARZ that it was “Not hard to say goodbye,” after recent news of the company’s financial woes. After constantly going back
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Social media timelines are a lot like middle school hallways: loud, messy, and always looking for the next person to whisper about. This week, the name on everyone’s lips was North
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 26, 2025 Attorney John Bey brings nearly 20 years of experience to his new presidential role. A Black attorney from Atlanta will now lead the American Association for Justice, the largest organization for plaintiff lawyers. John Bey is officially the President-Elect of the association, bringing almost
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton August 26, 2025 Watson, who was 464 pounds before being signed as a free agent, did not lose enough weight to make the team Desmond Watson, who was the heaviest player in NFL history, may have just participated in his last bit of league action after the
Donald Trump became the first president to attempt to remove a member from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the central bank’s 111-year history. In a letter on Monday, President Trump announced that Lisa Cook, the first Black woman and woman of color to serve on the Fed board,
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 26, 2025 The woman did not officially receive her art degree until decades later. A Black woman from Georgia, who was denied her art degree decades ago, will finally get her story told on screen. In the 1970s, Gwendolyn Payton had plans to graduate from Mercer
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton August 26, 2025 The $12.932 million surpassed the $12.6 million that a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card brought in August 2022 The 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autographs Basketball Cards, with the signatures of Jordan and Bryant, which was expected to fetch over
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman August 26, 2025 Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty, skin, and hair brands are the sponsors of the WNBA reigning champs. Rihanna is making her support of women athletes known through her latest partnership with the WNBA’s New York Liberty franchise. However, it is not Rihanna herself who is becoming
That Venus Williams lost her first Grand Slam match in two years — and what she says will be her last match of 2025 — didn’t really matter Monday night. Certainly not to the thousands of supportive spectators in the Arthur Ashe Stadium seats who roared for her best shots and, in
Public schools reopened Monday in the nation’s tense capital with parents on edge over the presence in their midst of thousands of National Guard troops — some now armed — and large scatterings of federal law enforcement officers carrying out President Donald Trump’s orders to make the District of Columbia a safer
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton August 26, 2025 Serial troller 50 Cent writes, ‘Not hard to say goodbye” Perhaps the biggest troll on social media, 50 Cent, has told STARZ that it was “Not hard to say goodbye,” after recent news of the company’s financial woes. After constantly going back