A 39-year-old man was sentenced to less than a year in prison after a video showed him going on a slur-laden outburst at a bus driver in London, England. Michael Mongan was charged with a racially aggravated public order offense and criminal damage for an incident on a public bus on Aug. 7. According to…
It seems that Will and Jada’s son Jaden Smith might be caught in the middle of his own entanglement years after his mother’s public scandal was revealed to the public. The icon rapper was recently spotted by paparazzi passionately kissing model Khleopatre while vacationing aboard a luxurious yacht in Ibiza, Spain. Jaden Smith spotted in…
B-Girl Raygun of Team Australia reacts during the B-Girls Round Robin – Group B on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. | Source: Elsa / Getty The unlikeliest of Olympic breakdancers whose performance sparked ongoing cultural criticism and suspicions of unethical…
Two Las Vegas police officers who kneeled and sat on a mentally ill man who had called 911 for help will have to face excessive force claims for killing him, a federal appeals panel ruled last week. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department had contended that qualified immunity should shield the officers and the department from…
Ernie Hudson as L.C. Duncan in “Carl Weber’s The Family Business. (Courtesy of BET+) OPINION: If you want to watch an amusing show about a family that screams talented tenth meets the trap, “Carl Weber’s The Family Business” is it. I didn’t know how much I needed to watch Ernie Hudson play a drug dealer…
Tamala Payne (center) and attorney Sean Walton (left) participate in a December 2020 protest march in Columbus, Ohio, for Payne’s son, Casey Goodson Jr., who was shot and killed by Franklin County deputy sheriff Jason Meade. (Photo: Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, file) Franklin County deputy sheriff Jason Meade was charged with murder and…
Sculptures representing charred chimneys rising from the smoldering rubble of burned-out buildings make up the Centennial memorial of the 1908 Race Riot entitled, “Acts of Intolerance” by Preston Jackson, shown in March 2023 in Springfield, Illinois. (Photo: John O’Connor/AP, file) The ceremony will be held Friday in the Oval Office and feature civil rights activists…
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award onstage during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on April 1 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) Queen Bey has been nominated for the People’s Artist of 2023, the Female Artist of 2023 and the Social Country Star of 2023. Beyoncé, Shaboozey and Kane Brown are…
A protester holds a poster of Ajike Owens and demands the arrest of a woman who killed her during a rally at the Marion County Courthouse in June 2023 in Ocala, Florida. (Photo: John Raoux/AP, file) The mother of the woman who was fatally shot told reporters that Susan Lorincz was not in fear for…
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory. | Source: BSIP / Getty Alarmed by the surge in mpox cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has taken the unprecedented step of declaring the outbreak sweeping through African countries a continental public…
