Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty It’s been six years since the death of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins, the Illinois teen who died of hypothermia in 2017 after she stumbled into a hotel walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Officials have since ruled Jenkins’ death as an…
The gunman who carried out a mass shooting in New York City last year was sentenced to 10 life terms in prison by a federal judge this week. In April 2022, 64-year-old Frank James discharged his firearm during rush hour at the 36 Street subway station in Brooklyn, leaving 10 people shot and more than a dozen…
Drake just dropped his long-awaited “For All The Dogs” album, and while a lot of fans love the new music, the project is getting backlash from some of the lyrics on one particular song. The Canadian rapper is no stranger to getting called out after his album releases. For his last album, “Her Loss,” Megan…
Source: Cass County Jail / Cass County Jail A North Dakota man was arrested Tuesday on charges of terrorizing after he allegedly threatened and hurled racial slurs at a Black woman and others. According to The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, 63-year-old Gerald Knorr was at an Aldi grocery store in Fargo with his dog when he…
A Minneapolis, Minnesota, council committee rejected a workers’ compensation claim to the former city police officer involved in the beating of a Black veteran a few years ago. On Monday, the city policy and government oversight board voted 4-1 against giving Sgt. Andrew Bittell the $145,000 PTSD payment, MPRNews reported. Bittell was one of the officers who…
Fans are doing a double take after Jaden Smith uploaded a side-by-side photo reflecting on his past “phases.” The 25-year-old rapper penned a tweet to X on Thursday, Oct. 5, and shared two images. The first photo was a throwback image from 2019, featuring Smith shirtless as he seemingly waved to a crowd. In the…
Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty The recent and clear instance of racial discrimination displayed at a Denny’s location in South Dakota has drawn attention to the embattled restaurant chain’s troubling and decades-long legacy of profiling both customers and employees who are not white. In case you missed it, in August, two Black truckers recorded their…
Former Def Jam Recordings executive Drew Dixon has repugnant memories of her time working with Russell Simmons at the label he helped found in 1984. She has previously alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the hip-hop pioneer while climbing the ranks and gaining notoriety for her work in the industry as an A&R. Trending…
A Halloween decoration hung by a Georgia resident deemed “offensive” has caused a stir in the community. The decoration in question posted by WSB-TV appears to show a person with an animal skull head hanging with a noose around the neck with brown gloves. It’s displayed at a home in Cartersville, Georgia, about 43 miles from Atlanta….
Source: Barbara Davidson / Getty It might not seem like it, but climate change and racism are dangerously interlaced, which, in many cases, allows systematic racism to flourish without much pushback. As the United States becomes more diverse, it’s important to understand how climate change disproportionately affects people of color due to the socioeconomic totem…
