FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk has been arrested in Florida on federal charges that he paid for the attempted 2022 revenge killing of rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin. Durk, 32, is

After the exhaustive and yet necessary conversations and news stories about how Black men have been taken for granted in this election cycle and the efforts to win their vote, the question remains whether both political parties will find actual solutions to better engaging Black men after Nov. 5. TheGrio

The internet is rumbling after radio personality Charlamagne Tha God called out what he sees as a double standard in how the media is covering the 2024 presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Charlamagne had an awkward exchange with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper Thursday evening while discussing the election. 

Elizabeth Francis, a Black woman from Texas who was the oldest known living person in the U.S., has died. She was 115. Her 69-year-old granddaughter, Ethel Harrison, told ABC News her grandmother died peacefully on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in her nursing home surrounded by loved ones. Francis, who lived in

DETROIT (AP) — A man has been released from prison after 22 years after Detroit-area prosecutors acknowledged that his murder conviction was tainted by the key testimony of a rogue police officer who turned out to be a serial bank robber. “Not much shocks me anymore, but this did,” Wayne

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Louisville police officer who used a battering ram to smash through Breonna Taylor’s front door testified in federal court Thursday that the gunshots that went off shortly after were the “loudest I’ve ever heard.” Police gunfire killed Taylor, a Black 26-year-old medical technician, who had

“Love Is Blind” veterans Lauren Speed-Hamilton and Cameron Hamilton are still going strong —  and credit a difficult fertility journey for bringing them closer as a couple. On the second episode of the couple’s new podcast, “The Love Seat,” released Wednesday, Oct. 23, the series’ fan favorites publicly discussed their

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The partial collapse of a ferry dock that claimed the lives of seven people attending a cultural festival has left a historic Black community in Georgia struggling with how to move forward. The Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island were already facing a number of stressors: gentrification, tax

Kamala Harris once said that anything you do to benefit Black America, benefits all of America. The year was 2019, and it was Harris’ first attempt at running for president in the Democratic primary before she ultimately was elected vice president. Her statement was in response to a question from

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After Candice Henderson-Chandler moved to New Orleans and bought her first house in 2021, she learned it had played a key role in the city’s civil rights history and was the childhood home of a prominent activist, Oretha Castle Haley. Henderson-Chandler, who is Black, soon founded a nonprofit