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Georgetown University’s Center for Youth Justice is joining Prince George’s County, Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus, and the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services in their efforts to honor the 200+ Black lives buried in a recently discovered abandoned grave site. The Forgotten Children Initiative says it is committed to “honoring the
After crossing “traveling to space” off her bucket list, Gayle King has her sights set on something a little more down to earth: falling in love again. The 70-year-old news anchor opened up about her desire for a relationship during a recent conversation with WNBA star A’ja Wilson at TIME
Who had Cardi B — or “Hala B,” as she’s recently rechristened herself — thrilling fans from Saudi Arabia on their 2025 bingo card? Over the weekend, the 33-year-old rapper touched down in Riyadh to headline MDLBEAST Soundstorm, one of the region’s biggest music festivals, and quickly went viral for
A historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized in recent years is now safely on display in Atlanta in an exhibit that opened on Monday, December 8. It memorializes an event that some people in rural southern Georgia have tried hard to erase: the killing of
CNN anchor and debut author Abby Phillip sits down with Natasha S. Alford for a one-on-one Grio Weekly conversation that connects Black political history to the moment we’re living in right now. Phillip’s new book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power revisits a chapter many Americans missed but are
Carl Carlton, the funk and R&B singer whose music became synonymous with Black joy, swagger, and timeless grooves, has died. He was 73. The news was confirmed on Sunday, Dec. 14, by his son, Carlton Hudgens II, who shared a tribute to his father, born Carlton Hudgens, on Facebook. “RIP
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar shared that her son was pulled over by ICE over the weekend amid the Trump Administration’s surge of federal agents in Minnesota targeting Somali residents. “Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by ICE agents, and once he was able
Five years ago, on Dec. 14, 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill and inflicted devastating consequences for months on end — with more than 300,000 people dead in the United States and over 1.6 million worldwide — the very first person in the country received
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman December 15, 2025 The single mother of four had to immediately vacate the property following the discovery. A single mother of four in Metro Atlanta is suing her landlord after discovering fecal matter blowing from her home’s heater. Tiarra Logan had been in a year-long battle with
The world of politics is reacting to the shocking home killing of Hollywood director and producer Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, on Sunday. Reiner was an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with credits including the Morgan Freeman-fronted “The Magic of Belle Isle” and political projects such as “God & Country,” which
Georgetown University’s Center for Youth Justice is joining Prince George’s County, Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus, and the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services in their efforts to honor the 200+ Black lives buried in a recently discovered abandoned grave site. The Forgotten Children Initiative says it is committed to “honoring the
After crossing “traveling to space” off her bucket list, Gayle King has her sights set on something a little more down to earth: falling in love again. The 70-year-old news anchor opened up about her desire for a relationship during a recent conversation with WNBA star A’ja Wilson at TIME
Who had Cardi B — or “Hala B,” as she’s recently rechristened herself — thrilling fans from Saudi Arabia on their 2025 bingo card? Over the weekend, the 33-year-old rapper touched down in Riyadh to headline MDLBEAST Soundstorm, one of the region’s biggest music festivals, and quickly went viral for
A historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized in recent years is now safely on display in Atlanta in an exhibit that opened on Monday, December 8. It memorializes an event that some people in rural southern Georgia have tried hard to erase: the killing of
CNN anchor and debut author Abby Phillip sits down with Natasha S. Alford for a one-on-one Grio Weekly conversation that connects Black political history to the moment we’re living in right now. Phillip’s new book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power revisits a chapter many Americans missed but are
Carl Carlton, the funk and R&B singer whose music became synonymous with Black joy, swagger, and timeless grooves, has died. He was 73. The news was confirmed on Sunday, Dec. 14, by his son, Carlton Hudgens II, who shared a tribute to his father, born Carlton Hudgens, on Facebook. “RIP
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar shared that her son was pulled over by ICE over the weekend amid the Trump Administration’s surge of federal agents in Minnesota targeting Somali residents. “Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by ICE agents, and once he was able
Five years ago, on Dec. 14, 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill and inflicted devastating consequences for months on end — with more than 300,000 people dead in the United States and over 1.6 million worldwide — the very first person in the country received
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman December 15, 2025 The single mother of four had to immediately vacate the property following the discovery. A single mother of four in Metro Atlanta is suing her landlord after discovering fecal matter blowing from her home’s heater. Tiarra Logan had been in a year-long battle with
The world of politics is reacting to the shocking home killing of Hollywood director and producer Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, on Sunday. Reiner was an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker with credits including the Morgan Freeman-fronted “The Magic of Belle Isle” and political projects such as “God & Country,” which