Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has publicly apologized for her comments regarding Black kids in the Bronx earlier in the week. On Monday, Hochul addressed the backlash she received for comments that she made about Black children in the Bronx during a panel discussion. Hochul was being interviewed by Washington…
R. Kelly‘s literacy issues have been called into question for years, and even more so when the imprisoned singer attempted to use it as a legal defense to abstain from paying the alleged victims who appeared in the “Surviving R. Kelly” docuseries. But his ex-wife, Drea Kelly, recently confirmed she was the one who taught…
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rogert Fortson. | Source: U.S. Air Force The family of a U.S. Air Force officer who was shot and killed last week by a police officer in Florida claims the bodycam footage from the deadly incident contradicts the initial police narrative and leaves more questions than answers. The Okaloosa County…
The New Hartford Central School District in upstate New York is under investigation after displaying racist imagery that compared NBA champion LeBron James to a monkey at an art exhibit. On May 4, the district held an art show, and at the center of the scandal was a display, believed to have been created by…
A federal court recently blocked Louisiana’s new congressional map, overturning the state’s second majority-Black district and potentially favoring Republicans in upcoming elections. However, a group of “non-Black voters” filed a lawsuit to challenge the map, alleging racial gerrymandering. The recently proposed map restructured the constituency of Republican Rep. Garrett Graves, resulting in a district where…
Donald Trump speaks at the Black Conservative Federation Gala on Feb. 23, 2024. Sean Rayford/Getty Images By the end of winter 2024, the return of Donald Trump to the top of the GOP presidential ticket has revealed a surprising trend in the former president’s base of support: his increasing popularity among Black and Latino voters….
British actress Kate Beckinsale apparently does not play about her friend Shaquille O’Neal. The “Much Ado About Nothing” movie star shifted from her traditional prim and proper demeanor, typical of a former Oxford student, to a seemingly gangster one after reading the former Laker’s response to his ex-wife, Shaunie (O’Neal) Henderson saying she’s unsure if…
Emery Mizell, a 17-year-old student at New York’s Metropolitan Soundview High School, had been looking forward to prom and high school graduation. All that changed when a dispute with another teenage girl ended with Emery being stabbed to death after walking home from school in the Bronx on May 2. “I’m devastated, I’m numb, I’m…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis listens during the final arguments in her disqualification hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: ALEX SLITZ / Getty While Donald Trump is currently on trial in New York for allegedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and falsifying…
Oscar award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has issued a response to allegations linking him to a group of people implicated in a civil lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs. The lawsuit, filed by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, alleges sexual harassment and assault by the Bad Boy founder and listed many celebrities, including Prince Harry, Yung Miami,…
