Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., speaks from the balcony outside room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago, on April 4, 2018, in Memphis, Tennessee. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., who died on June 9, 2024, at the age of…
Alexander Morris, the lead singer of Motown Records’ The Four Tops, has filed a federal lawsuit against Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan. He claims doctors wrongfully placed him in restraints and ordered a psychological evaluation, alleging his institutionalization was racially motivated. Morris, 53, represented by attorneys Maurice Davis and Jasmine Rand, filed the complaint…
President Joe Biden speaks during a Juneteenth Concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2024. | Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Black culture and history took center stage at the White House this past Monday as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spearheaded a vibrant…
The parents of a 14-year-old boy are demanding that a Michigan middle school coach be charged with assault after he was caught on surveillance video choking their son with a shirt. “I need this man to pay for what he did to my son, and if that means being fired, losing his job, sitting in…
Jonathan Kaye is shown moments after punching an unidentified woman in Brooklyn, New York City, on June 8, 2024. | Source: X screenshot More than three days after Jonathan Kaye was shown on video brutally punching a woman in New York City last weekend, the wealthy banker seemingly remains on the payroll of an investment…
Comedian Rob Schneider has stepped into what some call uncharted territory after calling Will Smith a “liar,” “fraud,” and a few other choice words for slapping his fellow SNL alumnus Chris Rock. At the 2022 Oscars, he made a joke about the Oscar winner’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, prompting “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” to…
Lakers’ LeBron James pays Tribute to nba legend Jerry West, Whose Legacy Lives on as the NBA Logo, But His Story Also Includes a Troubled Past Tributes poured in on June 12 after news of Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West’s death surfaced. A cause of death was not immediately released. He was 86. West,…
Black Like Me, lobbycard, James Whitmore, 1964. | Source: LMPC / Getty A peculiar desire seems to still haunt some white people: “I wish I knew what it was like to be Black.” This wish is different from wanting to cosplay the coolness of Blackness – mimicking style, aping music and parroting vernacular. MORE: The…
America has watched the Obama daughters grow up right before its eyes, and now it’s time to come to terms with the fact that the youngest former first daughter is a grown woman. Barack and Michelle Obama fans recently were stunned to see a new shot of Sasha Obama, who celebrated her 23rd birthday earlier…
Source: OLIVIER DOULIERY / Getty Long before Supreme Court shucker and jiver Clarence Thomas voted to strike down the same affirmative action in college admissions that put him through law school and then later declared that the Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated schools was also wrong, he and his wife, Ginni, raised…
