GRIFF is going through the schedule of NFL games for the week and letting you know who he thinks is going to walk away with the win! This is especially helpful for the ladies, he reminds us, because they can take his predictions to their boyfriends or husbands, and impress them with a little bit […]

In this first weekly edition of GRIFF‘s Pick, he explains that he’s surveying all of the NFL games that are going on and predicting outcomes for the upcoming games. He even notes that for all the ladies who want some tips on impressing their football-enthusiast boyfriends, GRIFF’s Pick will be the best source to pull […]

The NCAA announced yesterday that it has relocated seven championship events — including early rounds of the men’s basketball tournament scheduled for Greensboro — because of a controversial state law, HB2.  HB2 blocks anti-discrimination protections and requires people to use bathrooms corresponding to their birth gender rather than the sex they identify with. Two schools […]

It’s official. Tennis great Serena Williams has 308 career Grand Slam single wins.  This gives her more single wins than any other man or woman in history! Hard work DOES pay off!  Congrats!

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From Tommie and John’s Black Power salute to Gabby Douglas becoming the first African American to win an individual gymnastics title, here are some of the most memorable moments for African Americans in the Olympics.

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From Tommie and John’s Black Power salute to Gabby Douglas becoming the first African American to win an individual gymnastics title, here are some of the most memorable moments for African Americans in the Olympics.

In this edition of the Faith Talk, GRIFF tells the story of a friend whose philanthropic business venture was suffering, and she was unsure about whether it would survive another year. Becauswe of this uncertainty, she was afraid to go forward. She had to press send on an important message, but was hesitant to do […]

An amateur German soccer team took a stand against racism by wearing blackface to show solidarity with their Sudanese teammates, The Huffington Post reports.

On Thursday, officials in Philadelphia passed a resolution that not only honors Major League Baseball legend Jackie Robinson's color barrier-breaking appearance in the city in 1947 but also serves as a formal apology. On April 15, the day that Robinson shattered the barrier, his widow will receive a formal apology for the mistreatment her husband faced, NBC Philadelphia reports.

A study finds that black men's college football and basketball players' graduation rates lag behind black male non-athletes at the same schools. Researchers say this is troubling because the additional financial and academic support the athletes receive seem to make no difference.

Although reigning NFL MVP and Carolina Panthers superstar quarterback Cam Newton is largely out of the news cycle after his team’s Super Bowl 50 loss to the Denver Broncos, he’s still making headlines. Black sportswriter Kimberley A. Martin, who covers the New York Jets, shared a letter she received from a racist reader after recently writing […]

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Hampton University, the historically Black college founded in 1868 in Virginia, made history recently as the first HBCU with a Division I lacrosse team.