The former FedEx delivery driver who was chased and shot at by two white men in Brookhaven, Mississippi, has filed a $5 million lawsuit. D’Monterrio Gibson — who is Black — was attacked while making his deliveries on Jan. 24, 2022, in a Hertz van. As widely reported by the Mississippi Free Press and other…
Source: Mark Makela / Getty One of the nation’s leading election-minded groups working to build and fortify Black political power has announced it will award more than $1 million to 10 Black-led organizations to mobilize Black male voters ahead of the 2024 election. The announcement from the Black Futures Lab comes as a series of…
Two police officers from the Kenosha Police Department were suspended after body camera footage of them wrongfully arresting and beating a Black man holding a baby was released. Jermelle English Jr. and Shayna Boyd were wrongfully arrested in an Applebee’s in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on July 20. Footage captured the police officers beating English as he…
Throughout her time in the industry, singer Maurette Brown Clark has not only earned her spot as a gospel legend and nicknames such as “Princess of Praise & Worship” and the “Angel of Adlibs.” Music lovers often praise her ability to improvise her angelic words or phrases, which developed from being influenced by other…
“I opened carried. People freaked out. I don’t blame them,” is a quote from former Memphis mayoral candidate Derek Winn, 34, who was detained by Memphis police for walking through his neighborhood with an assault-style rifle. The Tennessee man, who only received 57 votes during the election, said he was being stalked on his regular…
Tameka “Tiny” Harris has weighed in on one of the countless rumors going on involving her son, Clifford “King” Harris, III, and her husband, his dad Clifford “T.I.” Harris. Most headlines suggest King and his father are at odds following an alleged scuffle that went down at the Atlanta Falcons victory game last Sunday, Nov….
Source: Win McNamee / Getty Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are urging Congress to declare December 1st a federal holiday honoring the civil rights icon Rosa Parks. According to CNN, the CBC marked the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest by urging Congress to support a bill that would make December 1st “Rosa Parks Day.” The…
Two TikTok videos have gone viral, featuring a white woman in a red jacket and teal shirt walking her dog while hurling offensive remarks at a Black man in the parking lot of her apartment complex. The woman claimed in her vile rant that the man was fortunate to be in her country and suggested…
Source: Shreveport Police Department A former police officer in Louisiana was given what appeared to be a light and lenient sentence for an egregious case of brutality against an unarmed Black man who federal officials said posed no physical threat to law enforcement during the violence that took place more than four years ago. Dylan…
The son of legendary singer Dionne Warwick says the 82-year-old once “out-gangstered” Suge Knight and Snoop Dogg, two West Coast artists known for having anything but a soft image. Warwick’s son Damon Elliott shared the story while appearing with his mother on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” on Nov. 30. Warwick explained to Hudson that she…
