“A stay increases the risk that Plaintiffs do not have an opportunity to vote under a nondilutive congressional map until 2024…,” U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick wrote. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge in Baton Rouge refused on Thursday to delay her order for Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts while the state’s top elections official…
Some other courts have recognized that race and ethnicity are among the factors that can determine whether a police interaction rises to the level of a seizure. SEATTLE (AP) — A person’s race and ethnicity must be taken into account when deciding whether they were free to leave an encounter with police, the Washington Supreme…
It looks like Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s nephew is joining the family business and trying his hand at a rap career. The Shade Room shared a TikTok video of Solange’s son, Daniel Juelz Smith Jr. dropping a freestyle over a drill-sounding beat. The clip shows the 17-year-old sitting in front of a computer wearing sunglasses as…
The 2022 TIME100 list included luminaries Ariana DeBose, Jon Batiste and Mary J. Blige. So who showed up and showed out? The series of ceremonies we know as “awards season” may be over, but the honors keep coming —and so do the red carpets. Case in point: the 2022 TIME100 gala, which took place on…
During interviews with theGrio, U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and former Trump impeachment manager Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett reflect on the attack committed by a mostly white mob. After nearly a year of investigating the horrific events of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the House committee that was formed to uncover the root causes of…
Sean Bickings. | Source: Twitter Following the outrage when it was learned that police in Arizona refused to save a drowning Black man, it has since been revealed that officers from the same police department previously went above and beyond the call of duty to rescue a dog from a canal out of fear that…
Music icon Snoop Dogg is one of the most recognized people on the planet due to his long career in the entertainment industry, and the “Gin and Juice” rapper is currently enjoying the well-deserved fruits of his labor by vacationing in Tahiti with his family. Snoop Dogg, whose born name is Calvin Broadus Jr., shared…
The “Ignition” singer is facing a minimum of 10 years in prison after a jury convicted him of racketeering and sex trafficking. Federal prosecutors in New York want R. Kelly to serve 25 years in prison after a Brooklyn jury convicted him in September on nine charges in his racketeering and sex trafficking trial. As…
The family of Andrew Brown Jr. has reached a $3 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit filed in connection with his slaying at the hands of sheriff’s deputies in northeastern North Carolina. Brown’s family say he was unarmed when he was swarmed by deputies and hit with a barrage of bullets. “They’re still grieving…
A Vanderbilt University professor said in 2012 that Tyrone Chalmers had functional intelligence “at or below 70,” court documents showed. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate convicted of a 1994 slaying can pursue arguments that he is intellectually disabled and should not be executed under state law, a federal judge has ruled….
