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Five Black students have filed a federal lawsuit against against Floyd County Schools in Georgia, claiming their First Amendment rights were violated.

Today is Wednesday, April 6, the 96th day of 2022. There are 269 days left in the year.

Black businesses and entrepreneurs have plenty to offer this holiday season and theGrio showcases five in our gift guide.

The stories start with the first known slaying in Greene County, when Judge Charles Yancey shot and killed John Roberts near the downtown square.

May 6, 2021 Ibe Imo shares the stories of Khalid David and Kobina Ansah at the HBS Black New Venture Competition Ibe Imo, Contributor For Khalid David, Venture Creation and Funding is Activism and Black Empowerment.  “At Harvard Business School’s Black New Venture Competition, I felt welcomed into a larger family of Black business leaders,” David said. NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. — Khalid David is the CEO and Founder of TracFlo. TracFlo is a predictive financial management platform that offers...

A shake-up at the California National Guard results in the firing of one general and the suspension of another.

Cervelos Áspero-5 Is More Than Just a Head Turner Every now and then I just can’t wait for a news embargo to lift. That’s the case with this bike today, because it’s a breathtakingly beautiful bike, and because the bike is a perfect match for a theme I think is becoming more obvious in our sport. The Áspero has gotten itself aero, and when gravel bikes get aero there’s really not a lot of need to choose between aero and endurance anymore, is there? Why is this bike called the Ásper...

Charles Phillips, former CEO of Infor, said they texted and emailed hundreds of companies. Over the course of 3 weeks, companies came together to speak out against the Georgia law. Hundreds of companies signed a statement Wednesday that condemned restrictive voting laws, like the one passed in Georgia last month.  The final statement, which appeared in a two-page ad in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, and the Washington Post, was the result of a three-week effort from five B...

Killer Mike spoke with RADIO.COM’s Big Tigger and The Morning Culture on V-103 to discuss the recent shooting that took place at the OG Swag Shop in the early hours of Monday morning.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux,586 pp. This article was first published in the June 26, 2008 issue of Sixty pages or so into Ma Jian’s novel Beijing Coma, the hero, Dai Wei, is troubled by the memory of a harrowing anatomy lecture that he attended as a university student. Taught by “a celebrated cardiovascular specialist,” the class observed the dissection of the fresh corpse of a criminal whom the government had just executed (in celebration of National Day) and whose organs had been speed...