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LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A federal judge in Utah sentenced Louisiana rap artist NBA Youngboy to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges after he acknowledged having possessed weapons despite being a convicted felon. The rapper, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, reached an agreement that resolved Utah

IRVING, Texas (AP) — A rape allegation against rapper Jay-Z, whose company Roc Nation has produced some of the NFL’s entertainment presentations including the Super Bowl halftime show, won’t impact the league’s relationship with the music mogul. “We’re aware of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s really strong response to that,”

Next year’s Sundance Film Festival will feature Jennifer Lopez singing and dancing in Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” Questlove exploring the legacy of Sly & The Family Stone and Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s latest documentary about the war in Ukraine. The Sundance Institute on Wednesday unveiled 87 feature films set to premiere at the 2025

President Joe Biden will issue clemency on Thursday for nearly 1,500 people sentenced to home confinement and 39 individuals who were convicted of non-violent crimes, theGrio is first to report.  President Biden’s executive action is the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history by any American president. “Mercy is

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida prosecutor says he will seek to vacate as many as 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine manufactured by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office for sting operations between 1988 and 1990. The Florida Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that people couldn’t be

Native Son, the premiere content and storytelling platform for Black gay and queer men, released its annual Native Son 101 list honoring its 2024 honorees of “change agents and mavericks” making a positive global impact. The honoree list, which includes theGrio’s own White House correspondent and Managing Editor, Gerren Keith

President Joe Biden marked yet another historic moment for his administration in his final days in office on Monday when the U.S. Senate confirmed his 40th Black female judge to the federal bench. As part of an effort to seat as many federal judges before President-elect Donald Trump returns to

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Jaleel White is currently making the press rounds for the recent release of his memoir, “Growing Up Urkel,” a book that I have read. On a recent stop at

Jamie Foxx is back, and like most Black people, he’s starting his story with the popular phrase “what had happened was.” In his new Netflix comedy special, the Academy Award-winning entertainer got emotional as he discussed the “mystery illness” that caused his health scare in April 2023.  “Please, Lord, let

DALLAS (AP) — Having waited for the call from Cooperstown for nearly three decades, Dave Parker burst into tears Sunday when he was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame along with the late Dick Allen. “Yeah, I cried,” Parker said after receiving the news from Hall chair Jane Forbes Clark.