A Georgia man was jailed for over a week after authorities used botched facial recognition technology to wrongfully arrest him for a crime. Baton Rouge Police Department detectives issued a warrant for Randal Reid, 28, in July for stealing luxury purses from a Louisiana consignment shop — using images from various mug shots, driver’s licenses and…
Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty The ex-fiancée of disgraced New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez is in hot water after being accused of misusing funds from a trust set up for their daughter. MORE: What Is Commotio Cordis? Damar Hamlin’s Injury Diagnosed By Doctors On Social Media According to The Boston Globe,…
A Georgia family is mourning a teenager who died while trying to save his friend in an icy lake. Koren Brooks, 16, was playing with four friends on top of what they believed was a frozen Ellison Lake near the Lakeside Vista Apartments in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw on Dec. 28 when it started…
Source: Medioimages/Photodisc / Getty There’s a reason not many Black people are likely to recommend Black parents sign their Black children up for programs run by police officers. There’s just far too much opportunity for things to go left and end in a Black child being criminalized. In Richmond, Virginia, one mother entered her son…
For Ayesha Curry, the first week of January is proving a time to swiftly put one of her New Year’s resolutions into full effect after showing off her 35-pound weight loss. The cookbook author sat with People magazine, where she expressed that a main goal of hers in 2023 is to “build a little…
Source: Tim Nwachukwu / Getty An HBCU men’s basketball program has decided to take on a surprising cause for their team’s social justice project. According to HBCU Gameday, the Howard University men’s basketball players will take on the issue of Black maternal health and the implications of the Roe v Wade reversal on Black women….
A British court has reversed a ruling that left a Black teenager locked up and sentenced to 18 months in a youth offenders’ facility after he stabbed two other men. After an appeal, officials recognized the boy was being provoked by the “victims,” who hurled racial and homophobic insults at him. Lord Justice Dingemans from…
Lil Baby fans were watching more than his performance when he hit the stage recently. Overly invested onlookers made his pants, or more accurately, what was inside of them, a social media talking point. In a clip circulated online, the Atlanta native is seen on stage rapping “Every Chance I Get.” He donned a pair…
Gangsta Boo performs with Run The Jewels at Music Midtown at Piedmont Park on September 19, 2015, in Atlanta. | Source: Chris McKay / Getty The death of a pioneering rapper from the south who blazed trails for other women emcees who came after her has prompted a number of questions; namely, how did she…
For nearly four years, Jimmy Hill of Atlanta has held his 3-foot tall sign of his son’s face plastered alongside that of his son’s killer. “I have to keep going because that’s my son, and I love him. It’s the right thing to do,” Hill said. The 60-year-old says his ongoing fight for justice has…
