Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. It feels like the end of an era. Donald Glover says his latest album, out Friday, “Bando Stone & the New World” is Childish Gambino’s last. and that makes me sad. Childish

As Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, bask in the glory of their coronation as the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees, Democrats and critics are decrying the all-white ticket as a doubling down on the party’s white male grievance politics and the blatant racism they say was

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats think his vice president would make a good president herself. A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats

Sha’Carri Richardson set the tone for her own comeback story a year ago when she won the 100-meter U.S. title, then the world championship, and brashly proclaimed: “I’m not back, I’m better.” Now, with a trip to her first Olympics approaching, come new questions: Is she still better than a

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black woman shot her in the face during a tense moment over a pot of water in her home and then discouraged his partner from trying to save her, authorities said Thursday. The details

In the realm of the technology adoption life cycle, I once comfortably identified with the early majority adopter—not a laggard or skeptic, but also not an innovator. I would have described myself as pragmatic, preferring to wait until a piece of technology had been proven effective before embracing it and

I first met Dan Kleftstad at WNIJ, the NPR affiliate station in my town. I was visiting the station, and he was the current Morning Edition host, but he was also on his way out. He was retiring from the station. He had published his horror novel Fiona’s Guardians in

Missy Elliott can now be heard in space.  The rapper’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly” was transmitted at the speed of light — approximately 158 million miles — from Earth to Venus, which is her “favorite planet,” NASA’s Deep Space Network announced on Friday.  Elliott is the first rapper

A nine-hour documentary about the late singer Prince has been put on pause because of differences between his estate and the doc’s production team. The film, which was originally going to stream on Netflix, is “dead in the water” after the “Kiss” singer’s estate viewed the project and claimed it