(Photo: Courtesy of Kelley Robinson and Becky George) The first Black, queer woman to lead the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization will welcome a baby girl with wife, Becky George, next year. The couple sees their pregnancy as a symbol of resistance to Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. Kelley Robinson, president of the…
In this image from the video uplink from the detention center to the courtroom, Dylann Roof appears at Centralized Bond Hearing Court on June 19, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina. | Source: Pool / Getty President Joe Biden’s sweeping commutations on Monday for prisoners serving federal death sentences notably excluded three non-Black men, including…
It took five years for prosecutors to charge the officers on a fugitive task force accused of shooting 26-year-old Jamarion Robinson 75 times inside his girlfriend’s East Point, Georgia, apartment in 2016. Now, Fulton County prosecutors, involved in a tug-of-war with federal officials over who should try the case, want to bring additional charges against…
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – NOVEMBER 05: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a rally during the early-morning hours of election day on November 5, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Polls show Trump in a dead heat with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris as they head into election day. (Photo…
British actress Cynthia Erivo was incredibly intentional when she transformed the look of Elphaba, the character she plays in the feature film adaptation of “Wicked.” The pint size alto, who did all of her own stunts while belting out her songs, chose to wear microbraids to represent her African heritage as a hairstyle for the…
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is seen during preparations on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Former Rep. Matt Gaetz has not been having his best political year despite his orangey-white nationalist messiah kicking, screaming, lying…
Two men dead. Two wildly divergent accounts. But one fact is not up for debate. David Cannimore and Bryce Metts were not the targets of a U.S. Marshals task force that descended on their south Atlanta neighborhood nearly five years ago. According to law enforcement, Cannimore, who had a warrant for failure to appear in…
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 04: NYPD Police Chief Jeffrey Maddrey looks on outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on April 04, 2023 in New York City. Former President Donald Trump will be arraigned today following his indictment by a grand jury on charges related to money he paid in 2016 to adult film actress Stormy…
FILE – This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) The IRS said it’s distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who failed to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns. Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments…
A man rides a motorcycle taxi past Christmas decorations on a street in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Deadly stampedes reveal the devastating impact of Nigeria’s economic crisis as some families risked everything for basic holiday aid. Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the…
