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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The texts between Jussie Smollett and the Nigerian-American brothers prove that the $3500 was for fitness training and not to orchestrate the alleged attack. This calls the claims by the Superintendent of Chicago PD into question. Story developing.
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This Trump supporting student tried to get an undocumented classmate deported, but instead he got himself expelled:
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These kids recreated Black Panther characters and these 👏🏾 photos 👏🏾 are 👏🏾 ICONIC 🙏🏾✨✨✨🌟
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For the first time in its 215-year history, West Point's top cadet is a black woman:
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25-year-old Brittany Oswell went into cardiac arrest on a flight, and despite an onboard doctor’s pleas to divert the plane, the pilots continued flying. When they landed four hours later, she was brain dead. Now her family is suing @AmericanAir:
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“I’m a grown a** all the way Black woman.” .Bernie Sanders’ National Co-Chair @ninaturner explains why sometimes white liberals don’t have Black women’s backs, and why she doesn’t hold her tongue anymore. #powerplayers full 🎥 here:
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That time a young Barack Obama said American culture is black culture and has to be 'affirmed.' #BlackHistoryMonth
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John Lewis becomes the FIRST Black lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and his casket rests atop the catafalque built for President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral in 1865. #JohnLewis #GoodTrouble
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Despite claims from Chicago PD, the brothers as persons of interest in the Jussie Smollett case told the grand jury they were paid $3500 because they were fitness training Jussie for an upcoming music video, NOT to attack him. Stay tuned for developing story.
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14-year-old Brennan Walker missed the bus to school, and decided to walk. He knocked on the door of a house to ask for directions, but was instead accused of trying to break in and shot at:
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Mauree Turner has made history as the first Muslim person elected to Oklahoma's legislature and the first non-binary lawmaker in the country. 🙏🏾👏🏾.
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This moment will go down in history! Only at #theGrioAwards will you see all the queens on the stage singing the Karyn White classic -- Superwoman. #Fantasia #JenniferHudson #QueenLatifah #YolandaAdams #PattiLabelle
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The famed civil rights attorney is now representing the family of Keyon Harrold Jr. and wants the NY District Attorney to file assault charges. LET'S GET TO IT!.
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Ben & Jerry’s unveiled a mural of Colin Kaepernick in Old West Tampa ahead of this weekend’s Super Bowl LV.
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A teacher joined students bullying a Muslim student and caught on tape pulling her hijab off to see her "pretty hair:"
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The legendary poet will be the first Black woman to have their likeness on U.S. currency.
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🚨BIG NEWS🚨. We are so honored to welcome @AprilDRyan to the #GrioFam! . On January 4, 2021, April will be joining and theGrio digital platforms as our White House Correspondent and Washington, DC Bureau Chief. 👸🏾.
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I tell ya. white woman tears💦 come along like CLOCKWORK. Shoutout to @nessnitty for having @Kaepernick7 's back. 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
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With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of 70-year-old lifestyle guru, B. Smith. Before battling early-onset Alzheimer's, Barbara Elaine Smith was a groundbreaking model and restaurant owner. We send our deepest condolences to her family and friends.
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When rapper Plies turns his phone on in his car and hits record, it isn’t to talk about his teeth or dating. Instead, the Florida-born star is dropping insights even some of the best of the nation’s top political strategists. Read more 👇🏽.
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Gayle King, took a moment to honor @AprilDRyan and led the room to a roaring standing ovation in response to her groundbreaking #25years serving as a White House correspondent. Well deserved! #theGrioDC #AmplifyBlackCulture
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For the second year in a row, theGrio is honored to have the incomparable @mspattilabelle grace our stage. 🙌🏾✨ Tonight, she took us on an emotional ride with her rendition of Mariah Carey's "Love Takes Time," and we're still catching our breath. #theGrioAwards2023 #PattiLaBelle
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At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers. More here. 👇🏾.
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Y’all. We couldn’t make this up if we tried 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. @BOOSIEOFFICIAL gets a shimmy tutorial on IG Live.
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Bill Lee, a well-regarded jazz musician and father of Spike Lee, has died. He was 94. Read More 👇🏿.
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ICYMI: #BETAwards opening performance featuring Public Enemy, Nas, The Roots, Rapsody, and YG #BETAwards
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Nikki Giovanni, revolutionary poet and voice of Black resilience, has died at 81. Her words inspired generations and will continue to echo through time.
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Going to take a moment here to give our good sis @staceyabrams the flowers💐 she deserves. Regardless of what happens in Georgia, let's be clear -- . SHE is why a shift has occurred in that state. She took what was the theft of her own election and rallied the ppl. Thank you💙
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Little man's reaction to learning how to walk is an excellent representation of our reaction to realizing IT'S THE WEEKEND! 🎉. 🎥 via TikTok: alissa_and_b
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The iconic @MissyElliott will be honored with a Walk of Fame star on Monday 🌟. YES to Missy getting her flowers 👏🏾🐐.
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After nearly 27 years of marriage, and 18 years of parenthood, Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are gearing up for their next roles: empty nesters. Read more 👇🏾.
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A Black Chicago native has received her Ph.D. at just 17, adding to a lengthy list of academic achievements. Read More👇🏿.
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After being put on time out, another one of our babies decided to take her life, at just 8-years-old. This has to stop. 💔
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We'll give her an invite to the cookout!. No, @michelleisawolf isn’t Black, but after her savage take down at #WHCD we’ll trade Kanye for her in the racial draft.
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Don’t mind us. We’re just looking for the lie. 🕵🏾♀️🕵🏾 Would you look at that? Can’t find it. Shoutout to you @TamikaDMallory.
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Stevie Wonder is requesting a meeting with President Biden. He is concerned after witnessing the rollback of critical laws and freedoms long fought for to level the playing field for Black Americans, including the gutting of the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action.
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OPINION: Despite all the attacks from social media and the British media in general during the mourning period for Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Sussex continues to take the high road. ✍🏿 @IAmSophiaNelson .
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Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam is poised to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, marking a stunning reversal of fortune for a political newcomer. Read More 👇🏿.
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The cast of #Blackish did 👏🏾 not 👏🏾 come 👏🏾 to 👏🏾 play 👏🏾 tonight on this #SAGAwards red carpet.
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"George Zimmerman had a 9mm gun. Trayvon Martin had a bag of skittles.". This is America. #TrayvonMartinStory.
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No way we couldn't relive this moment with the choir. Their presence changed the experience! . #RoyalWedding
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Things like this, the tolls of racism aren’t just on our bodies, our minds suffer as well.
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🚨 BREAKING🚨. Two years and 2 days after the murder of Elijah McClain, the Colorado Attorney General has announced that 3 officers and 2 paramedics have been charged with McClain's death. They are facing criminal charges including manslaughter. Story Developing.
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OPINION: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s recent New York City tour showcased why service is universal. ✍🏾 R.S. Locke @royal_suitor.
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Eddie Murphy received this year's Grio Icon Award after 47 years in the entertainment business. And one thing we know for sure, he is still making us laugh. TheGrio Awards 2023 is proudly #sponsored by @ford. #theGrioAwards
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Rev. Al Sharpton led a rally to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. A news reporter asked some of the women walking in, "Does the fact that is inauguration day mean anything to you?", and their response stood on business. #OnTheGrio.🎥 via Fox 5 Washington DC, Youtube
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"We have been cleaning up after violent white supremacist mobs for generations and it must end." – @AyannaPressley. A WORD.
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The first Black woman promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland is theGrio Awards’ 2023 Trailblazer Icon. Read More👇🏿.
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Amidst the frenzied media storm and onslaught of racist hate Meghan Markle received after her relationship with Prince Harry went public, he did something neither his father nor older brother ever did: He defended his partner. Read More 👇🏿.
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Leo D. Sullivan, the pioneering Black animator and co-founder of the first Black-owned animation production company, has died at age 82. More here. 👇🏽.
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The mother of Emmett Till is memorialized with a bronze statue outside the high school she attended in Chicago. Read More 👇🏿.
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#Griofam, this had us in tears 🥹. Afrika Owes, a single mom based in New York, has gone viral after sharing the news on TikTok that she passed the New York bar exam early on her first try. #BlackExcellence
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Trump’s second impeachment trial is being overseen by 2 Black lawmakers who've become integral figures in the Democratic party.
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Alena Analeigh McQuarter wins the Young Icon Award! The Texas teenager made history as the youngest African-American accepted into medical school! . #TheGrioAwards is happening NOW on #CBS! You can also watch tomorrow, Sunday 11/27, on theGrio Cable Network at 8p ET.
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EXCLUSIVE: Historian and Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch tells theGrio's @AprilDRyan that Jan. 6 will live in 'infamy' and be written about for years to come.
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.@Lesdoggg has made her mark in Hollywood as one of the funniest women in the industry. Today, we celebrate this shining star. #GrioHERstory
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Coco Jones and Boyz II Men just hit the stage at theGrio Awards 2023 with their amazing performance of Mariah Carey's "One Sweet Day!" 🔥🎶 #Griofam, did you catch the legendary collaboration?. #theGrioAwards2023 #CocoJones #theGrioAwards #BoyzIIMen
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Ugh. This one hurts all of us who are music heads. Philadelphia rapper Malik B, a founding member of 'The Roots', has reportedly passed away at the age of 47. We send our love and prayers and condolences to his family, friends, and fans. Story developing.
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The oldest surviving witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre has become the oldest author in the United States following the release of her memoir this week. Read more. 👇🏾.
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Women of Color! We see you. We appreciate you. We love you! Join us in amplifying WOC voices & work today using the hashtag #WOCAffirmation
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Did anyone else's smile grow bigger and bigger the more you watched?. You are doing great! We are proud of you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. IG 🎥: jeanineraine
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“I’m not combating #LeavingNeverland. I’m doing a documentary about the media’s relationship with my uncle and how they’ve reported certain things as factual that were lies.” - Taj Jackson.
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The list of who will perform at Aretha Franklin's funeral is here:.- Stevie Wonder.- Jennifer Hudson.- Fantasia.- Shirley Caesar.- Ron Isley.- Chaka Khan.- Faith Hill.- Yolanda Adams.- Marvin Sapp.And more:.
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BREAKING NEWS: #CyntoiaBrown was just granted clemency!!!!. After serving 15 years in prison, she will be released on parole supervision in August of this year.
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White police officer fired after posting a selfie saying "I"m the law today n*gga":
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NBC News correspondent Yamiche Alcindor welcomed her first child last month after years of IVF treatments. Read More👇🏿.
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@westcoastwoman7 Yes, @qsteph is EXACTLY the type of person we PROUDLY employ -- who is actually dedicated to truth, who unabashedly calls out racism and skewed 'media' narratives, and who seems to upset those of you intent on attacking a Black woman. You may leave now. ✌🏾.
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Cleveland cop pleads guilty to using sex toy on women during traffic stop:
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Herbert “Bertie” Bowman, a fixture on Capitol Hill for 60 years and the longest-serving Black congressional staffer, died Wednesday. He was 92. 🙏🏽. Read more. 👇🏾.
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Kate knew the truth and let the media vilify Meghan. Titles mean nothing when your character is in question. #OprahMeghanHarry.
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Justin Timberlake's face when Yeezy snitched and told everyone he was crying at the Grammy's after losing. #VMAs
http://t.co/6hDFA93G8P.
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Instead of hiring a Black model, Vogue just teased Kendall Jenner's hair into an afro and called it a day.
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Prince Harry handpicked some of the flowers for the bouquet, they were Forget Me Nots, his mother’s favorite flower. #RoyalWedding 😍
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CNN has learned that this past summer, an arrest warrant was issued for R. Kelly's former manager after he threatened to kill the father of Joycelyn Savage, one the women and alleged victims featured in the Lifetime 'Surviving R. Kelly' docuseries.
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Today we celebrate Congresswoman @MaxineWaters: Queen of shade & one of the most powerful women in American politics today #GrioHERstory
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