Source: The Washington Post / Getty Last week, Virginia voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment that would implement a new congressional map, giving Democrats a 10-1 advantage in House seats. While it looked like a victory for Democrats nationwide, on Tuesday, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower-court ruling blocking

This week, students at South Carolina State University, the state’s first public HBCU, are outraged after the university announced to student leaders its plans to invite South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette to speak at the 2026 commencement ceremony.  The student body did not hesitate to share its disdain for

Source: garrykosoff / Getty Can you imagine how conservatives would have responded if former Democratic presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden or Bill Clinton had spent their presidencies proving daily — maybe even hourly — that they were sad, lonely, adoration-starved men, who weren’t above dealing with their record low approval

Source: Jemal Countess / Getty For months, voting rights advocates have warned that the Supreme Court would use its decision in Louisiana v. Callais to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, further eroding freedom.  And they were right.  Decided along ideological lines, Wednesday’s 6-3 decision blocked a

The body of content creator Ashly Robinson, known online as Ashlee Jenae, has been returned to her family in New Jersey, but her personal belongings, including her engagement ring, remain unaccounted for. As TheGrio previously reported, Robinson, 31, died April 9 at a hospital in Zanzibar, Tanzania, one day after

Source: Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Listen, ladies, I know this isn’t what we want to hear, but the way these men are playing in our faces and with our emotions—it’s time for a reset.  First things first, this isn’t about one breakup. It’s about a pattern that a lot of

Source: Abu Hanifah / Getty According to the Triangle Business Journal, WRAL, and a press release from Saint Augustine’s University on Aug. 28, the university, one of the oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the U.S., has filed for bankruptcy protection. According to WRAL, the Raleigh-based HBCU filed

The civil rights community and elected leaders are reeling after the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against Louisiana’s congressional map that included a second majority-Black district based on the state’s population of Black voters. NAACP President Derrick Johnson said the court’s conservative majority “betrayed Black voters” in a statement reacting

Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Look, I’m sure at this point that the Republican Party is tired of being referred to as the “old white party,” but now all four Black Republicans in the House of Representatives are on their way out the door, leaving Sen. Tim Scott to be

One Washington state high school student is celebrating the beauty of Black coils with Google. Kameirah Johnson, a senior at Lakeside High School in North Seattle, is one of five finalists in Google’s 2025-2026 “Doodle for Google” competition. The annual nationwide art contest invites students in grades K-12 to flex