Former San Jose police officer Mark McNamara, who resigned in early November as racist text messages emerged, had his private stockpile of weapons confiscated at the time due to a restraining order for allegedly threatening to shoot a Black lawyer, according to new reporting by the Mercury News. McNamara, who joined the force in 2017,…
Rickey Smiley is remembering his eldest child, Brandon Smiley, for the light he carried and the lasting impact he left on his family. The 32-year-old tragically passed away from fentanyl and ethanol toxicity at his Alabama home in January. This holiday season marked Rickey’s first without his firstborn. A day after Christmas, the radio personality…
Several organizations and civil rights activists in North Carolina have taken legal action against members of the North Carolina General Assembly and State Board of Elections over allegations of racial gerrymandering, a nationwide issue where several states have been ordered to redraw congressional and legislative maps. The lawsuit was filed recently in the United States…
Songwriter, producer, and sopranist El Debarge has long captivated audiences with his beautiful voice and ballads. His artistry caught the attention of music legends from the likes of Quincy Jones, who counted him as one of his protégés, to rappers like The Notorious B.I.G., who used a sample from one of his biggest hits to…
“Love Jones,” the long-idolized film depiction of hyperbolic ’90s Black love starring Nia Long and Larenz Tate, is on the chopping block as social media users debate its categorization as a romantic love story. The cult classic debuted in 1997, and for many viewers, it has been revered as a beloved tale of boy meets…
A California man met the Grinch up close and personally during this Christmas holiday. While shopping in the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California, he was a victim of a beating, a robbery, and then a car crash — in one perpetrator’s car. Absalom Wilkins was attacked and robbed at gunpoint by three people…
Grammy Award-winning recording artist and choreographer to the stars, Paula Abdul, has dropped a bombshell lawsuit alleging that executive producer Nigel Lythgoe sexually assaulted her during her tenure as a judge on the set of his popular shows, “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance.” The former Laker Girl alleges that Lythgoe violated…
Over the years, “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star Rasheeda Frost has avoided K. Michelle‘s many attempts to bait he into an apology after Rasheeda cast doubt on the singer’s story about being physically abused by her ex-boyfriend and music producer, Memphitz Wright. Rasheeda Frost refuses to give K. Michelle a second apology over drama…
A Richland County man and his daughter were found dead off the side of a South Carolina road, not far from Interstate 26, last week. Autopsy results conducted by the Calhoun County coroner were inconclusive, but it is believed they succumbed to hypothermia. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that Jason Murph, 42, and his…
Actor Colman Domingo revealed that he once lost out on an acting role because he wasn’t light-skinned. The 54-year-old star of “The Color Purple” says he was passed over for a role in the HBO drama “Boardwalk Empire.” The New York Times interviewed the “Fear the Walking Dead” actor for an article published on Dec….
