U.S. Department of Justice announced the launch of separate civil probes into the conditions of two South Carolina-based jails. “The department received credible allegations that incarcerated persons have died from use of force, gross medical neglect or suicide in the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center,” the DOJ said in a statement on Thursday. “The department also received…

Source: Urban One/Televisa Univison / Urban One With just a few days before the arrival of Election Day 2023 on Tuesday (November 7), many voters across the nation are making their final decisions on who they’ll be voting into the seats of their state and local official offices. As we all know, the Black and…

The United Auto Workers strike came to an end as the union struck its last tentative deal with Big Three automaker holdout General Motors and secured increased pay and better benefits for union employees. It took six weeks of striking for the union to complete tentative agreements with automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, the…

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson are the duo that sports fans didn’t know they needed. The longtime friends joined forces on their “Nightcap with Unc and Ocho” podcast, where the former NFL stars talk about sports and pop culture. While the two are loved by fans, their takes don’t always go over well with…

Trump speaks in Las Vegas on October 28, 2023. Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Donald Trump is promising that if he’s elected president in 2024, he will create a federally funded online university that awards free degrees and saves college students from being indoctrinated into “wokeness” by indoctrinating them into anti-wokeness, jingoism, xenophobia, and more…

Nelly and Ashanti are proving that love is better the second time around. At Nelly’s 49th birthday celebration earlier this week, Ashanti surprised him with a new car.   At the party, Ashanti, who has a reported net worth of $5 million, surprised Nelly by gifting him with an electric blue 1962 Impala convertible–and it reportedly…

I was raised by my mother, who was a single parent. One day last year, I received a Facebook message from a woman who was trying to find me for her husband. We set up a time to have a phone call, and when I got on the phone, I heard the voice of my…

An Aurora, Colorado, police officer who is one of five people criminally charged for the 2019 death of Elijah McClain testified in court for the first time this week. He said he had to remove himself from the scene because he was so overwhelmed after administering a chokehold on the unarmed 5-foot-7, 140-pound Black man…

LaNisha Cole, the mother of Nick Cannon’s ninth child, has called out an Instagram “dust bucket” who accused her of turning her and Cannon’s 1-year-old daughter, Onyx Cole Cannon, against the “Wild ‘n Out” host. The accusations came after the former “Deal or No Deal” model uploaded an appreciation post for her boyfriend, Brian Paul…

A Louisiana woman was convicted on Monday in a case where a confession she told her pastor was used as evidence in court. Peggy Valentine was found guilty of home invasion and attempted first-degree murder for the May 2022 incident, WAFB reported. Her sentencing is set for February 2024. Prosecutors argued that Valentine, 44, broke…