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Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The end of the year is a time of much joy and jubilation. We have the holiday season, which usually means some days off with the family and, hopefully,
The scoop on Tyra Banks’ once-upon-a-time Washington, D.C., ice cream dream is messy. The 52-year-old model-turned-ice-cream entrepreneur and her business partner and current romantic partner, Louis Bélanger-Martin, are facing a $2.8 million lawsuit tied to a planned Smize & Dream shop in the nation’s capital, Fox 45 News reported. According
In a moment of vulnerability, Angela Yee shared a few things she’s learned from the death of her older brother, whom she called her “closest person.” The media personality announced on her “Way Up” radio show that her brother passed away suddenly from an aneurysm at 51 years old. According
Pauline Copes Johnson, one of Harriet Tubman’s descendants and champions, has died at age 98. The Harriet Tubman A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, NY, where Copes Johnson was an active member, announced the news on December 8. Copes Johnson was Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece and grew up in the same town where
Wiz Khalifa has been handed a prison sentence stemming from a drug-related incident in Romania. The 38-year-old rapper was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 18, to nine months in prison after being convicted of drug possession in the Southeastern European country, more than a year after his appearance at a local
Over the summer, Olandria Carthen and Nic Vansteenberghe, also known as Nicolandria, became a fan favorite on “Love Island.” Despite winning second place in the reality dating show, Nicolandria, particularly Olandria, earned the first-place spot in fans’ hearts. And now the couple is rounding out a year of campaigns as
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday ordering the federal government to reschedule marijuana, a move he was expected to do. “I’m pleased to announce that I will be signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I, [to] Schedule III, controlled substance,” said Trump, who
Cooler heads truly prevail when it comes to Chilli and her boyfriend, Matthew Lawrence. The 54-year-old R&B icon and the 45-year-old actor revealed they fall firmly in the “no fighting” camp while opening up about what they described as their “mature love” during a recent appearance on Sherri Shepherd’s show,
President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the vote on social media, saying it was because of the “unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building.
A mobile Black history exhibit was supposed to host an installation at Texas State University in honor of Black History Month. However, days after the university approached Khalid el-Hakim, the founder of Black History 101 Mobile Museum, to bring the exhibit to campus, Texas State University officials withdrew their request,
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The end of the year is a time of much joy and jubilation. We have the holiday season, which usually means some days off with the family and, hopefully,
The scoop on Tyra Banks’ once-upon-a-time Washington, D.C., ice cream dream is messy. The 52-year-old model-turned-ice-cream entrepreneur and her business partner and current romantic partner, Louis Bélanger-Martin, are facing a $2.8 million lawsuit tied to a planned Smize & Dream shop in the nation’s capital, Fox 45 News reported. According
In a moment of vulnerability, Angela Yee shared a few things she’s learned from the death of her older brother, whom she called her “closest person.” The media personality announced on her “Way Up” radio show that her brother passed away suddenly from an aneurysm at 51 years old. According
Pauline Copes Johnson, one of Harriet Tubman’s descendants and champions, has died at age 98. The Harriet Tubman A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, NY, where Copes Johnson was an active member, announced the news on December 8. Copes Johnson was Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece and grew up in the same town where
Wiz Khalifa has been handed a prison sentence stemming from a drug-related incident in Romania. The 38-year-old rapper was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 18, to nine months in prison after being convicted of drug possession in the Southeastern European country, more than a year after his appearance at a local
Over the summer, Olandria Carthen and Nic Vansteenberghe, also known as Nicolandria, became a fan favorite on “Love Island.” Despite winning second place in the reality dating show, Nicolandria, particularly Olandria, earned the first-place spot in fans’ hearts. And now the couple is rounding out a year of campaigns as
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday ordering the federal government to reschedule marijuana, a move he was expected to do. “I’m pleased to announce that I will be signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I, [to] Schedule III, controlled substance,” said Trump, who
Cooler heads truly prevail when it comes to Chilli and her boyfriend, Matthew Lawrence. The 54-year-old R&B icon and the 45-year-old actor revealed they fall firmly in the “no fighting” camp while opening up about what they described as their “mature love” during a recent appearance on Sherri Shepherd’s show,
President Donald Trump’s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House said. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the vote on social media, saying it was because of the “unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building.
A mobile Black history exhibit was supposed to host an installation at Texas State University in honor of Black History Month. However, days after the university approached Khalid el-Hakim, the founder of Black History 101 Mobile Museum, to bring the exhibit to campus, Texas State University officials withdrew their request,