Source: James Leynse / Getty Last week, a Black firefighter in Rochester, New York, revealed plans to sue the city and its fire department for $4 million after accusing his superior of pressuring him to attend a racist party in July. Now, the couple who threw the party is defending what they claim wasn’t a…
Images from body-camera footage show a Utah cop scrolling through social media and playing games on his cellphone moments after he refused to help a Black man bleeding from stab wounds. The still captured by The Independent shows Salt Lake City Police Officer Ian Anderson sitting on the stairwell where Ryan Outlaw was stabbed, watching…
On Aug. 16, Adrienne Bailon made headlines after revealing on her social media platforms that she and her husband, gospel singer Israel Houghton, welcomed their first child together via surrogate. This was a monumental moment for Bailon because she became a first-time mom in addition to being a stepmother to Houghton’s four children. While opening up about…
Source: Lucas Ninno / Getty The face of American extremism is undoubtedly white. But that doesn’t mean only white people can be extremists. An Atlanta-based Black extremist group known as The Black Hammer Party has been under scrutiny recently after two of their members were charged with felonies relating to an alleged kidnapping and sexual…
Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead, the pastor who was robbed on camera weeks ago, allegedly had a heated interview with D.L. Hughley. On Wednesday, Aug. 18, the Brooklyn pastor called out the veteran comedian in a series of videos on Instagram. In the first clip, Whitehead explained how Hughley “ambushed” him during the interview and came at…
The city of Sacramento and the parents of Stephon Clark’s parents have settled a federal civil rights lawsuit regarding the death of their son in the spring of 2018. Under the agreement, the Clark family will receive over a million dollars on top of the already amount given to the deceased’s two children. On Friday,…
People march with placards in support of voting rights during a parade on Jan. 15, 2022, ahead of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Eatonville, Florida. Eatonville is the oldest Black-incorporated municipality in the United States. | Source: SOPA Images / Getty It should surprise absolutely no one who is Black that the U.S. Department…
Oprah Winfrey has had a lot of firsts in her lifetime that most people can only dream of achieving. Yet, the uber-successful mogul recently shared an ordinary first that took her fans by surprise. Winfrey was in full-on domestic mode in her latest social media offering, where she is seen enjoying a day with her…
A journalist covering the death of an Alabama man who died by a state-sanctioned lethal injection is raising questions surrounding his recent killing. After observing a private autopsy and eyeing puncture marks outside of the point of injection, she believes someone in corrections was lying when they said to the media, “nothing out of the…
In 1998, Ashanti walked across the stage and received her diploma from Glen Cove High School, 24 years later the Hollywood Walk of Famer decided to take a trip down memory and visit her Long Island high school in celebration of the 20th anniversary of her self-titled debut album, “Ashanti.” For her first stop in…
