In 1770, the German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele performed an experiment and noticed that he’d created a noxious gas. He named it “dephlogisticated muriatic acid.” We know it today as chlorine. Two centuries later, another German chemist, Fritz Haber, invented a process to synthesize and mass-produce ammonia, which revolutionized agriculture …

Photo: AdobeStock Like much of the rest of Black America, Antentor Hinton, Jr.’s reaction  to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor was wanting to do something. His parents sensed it; that’s why they asked him a pivotal question. Photo: AdobeStock “They asked me to consider what I could …

Café Momentum — an award-winning nonprofit restaurant that provides 12-month paid internships and life-changing support to young people exiting the juvenile justice system — teamed up with the Players Coalition, a nonprofit founded by NFL players Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins. The restaurant is dedicated to making an impact on social …

This is the fifth installment in theGrio’s “Mighty Love” series, running through February. Read our first couple’s story here. “She took my breath away!” says Raymar Hampshire of the first time he saw his now-wife, Alicia. The two met in a quantitative skills prep program (aka “Math Camp”) in graduate school; that breathless …

Whoopi Goldberg attends Tyler Perry Studios grand opening gala at Tyler Perry Studios on October 05, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo: Paul R. Giunta (Getty Images) On Monday, longtime co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg, made her return to the famous desk following her two-week suspension. As previously reported by The …

This past weekend was another a busy one for Kanye West. In his ongoing war against soon-to-be-ex-wife Kim Kardashian-West and her new beau Pete Davidson, he took to Instagram to post a barrage of insults, all reportedly in an effort to expose the media narrative being built against him and …

It is common knowledge that COVID risk goes up with age, but how steeply it rises is still astounding to see after two years of living and dying with this coronavirus. Compared with someone in their 20s, a person over 65 years old is not slightly more likely to die …

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams for edging out the Cincinnatti Bengals in Sunday’s NFL Super Bowl victory at the SoFi Stadium in California. Perhaps most of the attention given to this year’s football championship was arguably the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show. Typically, people are excited to see …

On the field for Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, preparations for the game are taking place. In the stadium south of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Rams will play the Cincinnati Bengals for the NFL championship.Photo: Maximilian Haupt/picture-alliance/dpa/ (AP) Way back in 2004, I flew from Boston …

Latinos and their ancestors have lived in the Americas for 500 years, yet it feels like many Americans are perpetually in the act of discovering us—especially when elections are looming. We are instrumental to the emerging Democratic majority that Blue America longs for, that Red America fears, and that never …