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A new nationwide education report has found that most U.S. states continue to experience below-average student performance in math and reading, with researchers warning the country remains stuck in what they describe as a “learning recession.” As reported by U.S. News and World Report, the report, called the Education Scorecard,
Kodak Black is back in a Florida jail. The rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was arrested Wednesday on charges of resisting an officer and attempting to flee law enforcement, marking his second arrest in just eight days. As theGrio previously reported, Kodak Black was arrested on May 6
Drake has officially returned with not one, but three new albums. The rapper released his long-awaited project “Iceman” on Friday, May 15, while simultaneously surprising fans with two additional albums titled “Habibti” and “Maid Of Honour.” The release followed weeks of speculation surrounding “Iceman,” which marks Drake’s first solo album
Soul musician Clarence Carter has died at age 90. Carter, who was known for hit songs like “Patches” and “Strokin’,” died on Thursday, May 14. According to Rolling Stone, which first confirmed the news, he was battling sepsis and pneumonia and had recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Carter’s first
The former Los Angeles Sparks player Lisa Leslie will be honored with a statue outside the city’s Crypto.com Arena. The Compton-born basketball star, who was the first ever to dunk in a WNBA game, will join the other 15 statues outside the arena, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kobe
All eyes are on Democratic governors as Republican-led states in the South move in droves to redraw congressional maps that carve out Black and Brown voters, following the controversial Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. During an exclusive interview with theGrio, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear,
A man was arrested outside Chris Brown’s Los Angeles-area home on Wednesday evening after allegedly trespassing onto the property and attempting to start a fire, according to multiple reports citing law enforcement sources. The incident reportedly occurred at Brown’s residence in Tarzana, an upscale neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
Amid the press tour for her new book and controversy over her credentials, Cheyenne Bryant is doubling down, saying that she does deserve to be called a doctor. “I have multiple degrees, and my thing is that my proof isn’t something that I have to prove to individuals. My proof
In “I Love Boosters,” survival—by-hook-or-crook—is in style. The upcoming film from writer-director Boots Riley, arriving in theaters Friday, May 22, may have been conceived years ago, but it couldn’t feel more relevant, especially for Black women. “It seems like it’s prescient, and it is, but it’s just because we always
Nicki Minaj has laid out exactly what she says pushed her toward Donald Trump and away from the Democratic Party, and the names she drops are Barack Obama and Jay-Z. In a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, the 43-year-old Trinidadian rapper explained that her political conversion began with what she