A federal court in Tennessee dismissed a lawsuit by the state NAACP and others alleging that unconstitutional racial gerrymandering was at play in Tennessee’s redrawing of its U.S. House and state Senate voter district maps. The lawsuit, filed in 2023 in the U.S. District Court for Middle Tennessee in Nashville, argued that district boundaries reshaped…
Sitting Volleyball athlete Nicky Nieves poses for a portrait during the 2024 Team USA Media Summit at Marriott Marquis Hotel on April 15, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Team USA’s sitting volleyball player, Nicky Nieves, represents Team USA as a flagbearer in the 2024 Paralympic ceremony on Aug. 28. The…
Source: Source: Wikipedia / Wikipedia / Source: Wikipedia / Wikipedia Sean Grayson, the former deputy who shot and killed Sonya Massey in her Springfield, Illinois, home in July, was denied pretrial release by the Illinois Supreme Court. Now, his lawyers are challenging the decision, according to ABC 7 Chicago. Grayson’s defense team has submitted…
And like any niece that one hasn’t seen in a long time, many are gobsmacked at how mature and beautiful Beyonce and Jay-Z’s oldest daughter is. Blue Ivy Carter (right) joins her mother, Beyoncé (left), onstage in New Jersey on July 19, 2023. (Photo: @beyonce/Twitter) Paparazzi caught a quick glimpse of Blue Ivy walking down…
(Photo credit: Best, Periodt) Best Periodt joins several Black-owned menstrual care brands on the market as mainstream brands are criticized for containing toxic chemicals. If you’re looking for a period care product that is both sustainably made and safe to use, a new Black-owned brand has entered the chat. Best Periodt, a brand by Gayneté…
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade are still living the high life, and internet trolls can’t stand it. The married couple have been on what seems to be an extended vacation since going overseas to watch the Paris Olympics and Union has been capturing it all to share with her Instagram followers. But her most recent…
Roberta Flack attends Black Girls Rock! 2017 backstage at NJPAC on Aug. 5, 2017, in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET) The featured speakers read poetry by June Jordan, Gwendolyn Bennett, Phillis Wheatley, Georgia Douglas Johnson and more. Roberta Flack, Dawn Richard, Rep. Maxine Waters, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and…
This undated booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Marcellus Williams. (Photo: Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, file) Marcellus Williams, 55, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in the St. Louis suburb of University City. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Marcellus Williams…
United States’ Edwin Moses jumps a hurdle on his way to winning the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles on Aug. 5, 1984. (Photo: AP, file) The movie’s title “MOSES-13 Steps” is a reference to the number of steps he took between hurdles. At the time, most…
Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 slaying of Tupac Shakur, appears in court during a bond hearing at the Regional Justice Center Tuesday in Las Vegas. (Photo: Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, pool) Clark District Court Judge Carli Kierny said Tuesday she suspects a cover-up related to the source…
