Source: Collin County jail / Collin County jail The knife rested comfortably in the kangaroo pouch of my borrowed Polo Hi-tech. It was 1994 and much like everything I wore back then, none of it was mine—mostly because my body betrayed me. By the time I was in 12th grade, I’d reached my full adult…
(Left to right) Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman and Mary J. Blige’s music added to the National Recording Registry (Photos: Getty Images) The 2025 National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress archives albums by Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and more. Albums from Elton John, Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of…
FILE – Myrtle Felton, from left, Sharon Lavigne, Gail LeBoeuf and Rita Cooper, members of RISE St. James, conduct a live stream video on property owned by Formosa on March 11, 2020, in St. James Parish, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) A federal appeals court says a civil rights lawsuit against St. James Parish over…
A Georgia teacher was fired from his job after a video that circulated on social media showed him writing a racial slur on a whiteboard in a class full of students. The brief clip shows the teacher at Walnut Grove High School standing in front of a whiteboard after writing the N-word and excluding the…
Maury Povich and his wife, Connie Chung, have a love story fit for reality TV, yet it is still somehow the perfect fairy tale. In December, the couple will celebrate 41 years of marriage, though their romantic relationship dates back to 1977. The longstanding couple’s life together has been the talk of the town among their fans…
Outspoken NBA legend Charles Barkley stirred the pot once again with his decades-long feud with San Antonio, refusing to back down from his notorious comments about the city’s women during his appearance at the March Madness festival. The 62-year-old Hall of Famer took the stage on Sunday, April 6, just one day after his alma…
Source: tiero / Getty Another day, another blow to Americans who truly want to believe that hate, racism and bigotry will die away as the youth of today replace older generations at the forefront of society. In Nebraska, two high school students are set to face consequences after they were seen on social media posing…
It should be obvious to a woman who was paid $30 million not to appear on a network that she’s one of the lucky ones. But podcaster and MAGA mouthpiece Megyn Kelly apparently lacks much self-awareness, or else she wouldn’t have exhorted Americans to be patient with President Trump’s tariff policy because, well, you owe…
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at a campaign rally for democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Mich., on Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) The former first lady and her husband have been the subject of ongoing divorce rumors this year. Since Michelle Obama left the White House and her…
Photo: AdobeStock The congresswomen warn in a letter the “heightened health risks” for Black women exposed to the chemical, formaldehyde. U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, and Nydia Velásquez, D-N.Y., are urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move swiftly on advancing an already proposed federal rule that would ban a harmful…
