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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

U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, the Black Republican representing Texas’s 38th Congressional District, is going viral for remarks he recently made dismissing the suggestion that redistricting efforts to carve out the voting power of majority-Black districts are a sign of “Jim Crow 2.0” in the South. During a House Judiciary Committee

The University of Chicago has announced a major expansion of its undergraduate financial aid program, promising free tuition for students from families earning less than $250,000 annually starting in Autumn 2027, according to the school’s UChicago News outlet. Under the new initiative, students from families with incomes below $125,000 and

Former Vice President Kamala Harris joined a cohort of Black women to rebuke the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority for its ruling two weeks ago that gutted the Voting Rights Act, setting off a wave of Republican-led states drawing out majority-Black districts in congressional maps across the South. On Wednesday

Music from some of the biggest names in entertainment, including Beyoncé, Chaka Khan and Ray Charles, has officially been added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry for 2026, according to the Associated Press. The Library of Congress announced this year’s 25 inductees on Thursday, recognizing recordings considered culturally,

Did LeBron James just “soft launch” retirement? On Monday, May 11, after the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the 41-year-old NBA star gave a noncommittal answer when reporters raised the topic during a postgame press conference. “I don’t know what the future holds for me,” he