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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. Last week, I watched as author Kennedy Ryan stood before an excited audience at her book tour stop in Washington, D.C., and said something that stopped the room: “I get
‘Media mogul Byron Allen is being spotlighted among some of the most influential executives and founders in entertainment and journalism on The Trade Power 30: The Titans list, which recognizes leaders who have transformed modern media through ownership, distribution and long-term strategy. The feature places a strong emphasis on Allen’s
Atlanta’s nightlife community is grieving the loss of Sharell Canty, co-owner of the popular Opium nightclub, after Gwinnett County police confirmed she was fatally shot at a home in Grayson, Georgia on Sunday, May 24. As theGrio has previously covered the violence that has touched Atlanta’s nightclub scene, Canty’s death
The Trump administration is moving to put President Donald Trump’s face on a brand new denomination of U.S. currency. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled a draft design for a proposed $250 bill during a White House press briefing Thursday, contingent on Congress passing legislation to authorize it. As theGrio has
Music icon Patti LaBelle says she had no idea what the lyrics to “Lady Marmalade” actually meant when her group Labelle recorded the now-classic hit song in 1974, . During a recent appearance on the “IRL Angie Martinez” podcast, the legendary singer revealed that she only discovered the song’s meaning
Idris Elba is shutting down the James Bond conversation, saying he will not be the next actor to play 007 in the upcoming reboot. “My name’s not getting thrown out, no way,” Elba, 53, told People. “They’re going younger. And I wish them all the luck of the world. I
Source: Win McNamee / Getty President Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Rupert Murdoch, and two WSJ reporters over an article the outlet published last July, titled: “Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.” The
Friendship is one of the most universal human experiences. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you grew up; at some point in your life, you have loved a friend fiercely, leaned on one desperately, or mourned the loss of one deeply. And for Black women in particular, those
Laverne Cox shared a deeply traumatizing moment in her childhood where she was abandoned by her parents. Ahead of the release of her memoir, “Transcendent,” the “Orange Is the New Black” star revealed in an interview with People that she and her twin brother, Lamar, were dropped off at an
The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” would be reinstated “effective immediately,” weeks after the news of its removal gained
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Last week, I watched as author Kennedy Ryan stood before an excited audience at her book tour stop in Washington, D.C., and said something that stopped the room: “I get
‘Media mogul Byron Allen is being spotlighted among some of the most influential executives and founders in entertainment and journalism on The Trade Power 30: The Titans list, which recognizes leaders who have transformed modern media through ownership, distribution and long-term strategy. The feature places a strong emphasis on Allen’s
Atlanta’s nightlife community is grieving the loss of Sharell Canty, co-owner of the popular Opium nightclub, after Gwinnett County police confirmed she was fatally shot at a home in Grayson, Georgia on Sunday, May 24. As theGrio has previously covered the violence that has touched Atlanta’s nightclub scene, Canty’s death
The Trump administration is moving to put President Donald Trump’s face on a brand new denomination of U.S. currency. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled a draft design for a proposed $250 bill during a White House press briefing Thursday, contingent on Congress passing legislation to authorize it. As theGrio has
Music icon Patti LaBelle says she had no idea what the lyrics to “Lady Marmalade” actually meant when her group Labelle recorded the now-classic hit song in 1974, . During a recent appearance on the “IRL Angie Martinez” podcast, the legendary singer revealed that she only discovered the song’s meaning
Idris Elba is shutting down the James Bond conversation, saying he will not be the next actor to play 007 in the upcoming reboot. “My name’s not getting thrown out, no way,” Elba, 53, told People. “They’re going younger. And I wish them all the luck of the world. I
Source: Win McNamee / Getty President Donald Trump has refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal’s publisher, Rupert Murdoch, and two WSJ reporters over an article the outlet published last July, titled: “Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.” The
Friendship is one of the most universal human experiences. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you grew up; at some point in your life, you have loved a friend fiercely, leaned on one desperately, or mourned the loss of one deeply. And for Black women in particular, those
Laverne Cox shared a deeply traumatizing moment in her childhood where she was abandoned by her parents. Ahead of the release of her memoir, “Transcendent,” the “Orange Is the New Black” star revealed in an interview with People that she and her twin brother, Lamar, were dropped off at an
The Knox County school district in Tennessee has reversed its ban on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Roots.” Knox County Schools Superintendent Jon Rysewyk wrote in a memo that access to “Roots: The Saga of an American Family” would be reinstated “effective immediately,” weeks after the news of its removal gained