The May 2020 videotaped killing of Floyd triggered protests worldwide and a reexamination of racism and policing The three former Minneapolis police officers charged in connection with the killing of George Floyd will testify in their own defense later this year in a federal civil rights trial. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao and Thomas Lane, are…
Romeo Miller sent shock waves online on Feb. 14 by announcing that he was expecting his first child with girlfriend Drew Sangster and uploading an image of his daughter a short time later. In the Instagram post, Miller, who began dating his girlfriend in 2020, revealed that he and Sangster decided to keep her pregnancy a secret…
Quintez Brown’s attorney reportedly plans to have him evaluated as soon as possible and sought the court’s recognition of his mental state. Kentucky activist Quintez Brown, who is a candidate for the Louisville Metro Council, has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired multiple rounds at the headquarters of Craig Greenberg, a mayoral…
Raymond Santana, one of the exonerated men of the Central Park Five, received an $8.2 million settlement from the city of New York to compensate him. Recently, he spoke out about what he’s done in the aftermath of the 1989 case that put a spotlight on the tactics and strategies used by police and prosecutors….
Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee have derided three diverse Federal Reserve Board nominees since the process began. Republican Senators were a no show at an executive session to vote on the federal reserve board nominees. Senator Sherrod Brown, the chairman of the committee, blasted his GOP colleagues and said the Senators “have fled the…
I‘m not sure what a Latino sunken place would look like, but I imagine the Latinos for Trump organization would be its governing body. And the founder of the organization would probably legalize slavery there, because, why not, she already has the whip. According to The Oxy Moron…sorry, I mean, The Thinking Conservative, Latinos for…
OPINION: Starring Black Thought and Brandon Victor Dixon, the play offers a glimpse at a fascinating thought experiment that walks us through a nightmare scenario of someone willing to make a deal with the devil. What if I told you there was a machine that could turn you from Black to white? You could become…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s “Verzuz” platform have brought both celebration and honor for various artists, and a form of safe and free entertainment for those who’ve tuned in to the “battle” between two artists from the same genre. But a recent announcement regarding charges for the platform that has featured music…
Lisa Cook, a Michigan State University economics professor, has been nominated by President Biden for governor of the Federal Reserve. On Feb. 3, she will appear before the Senate Banking Committee. She is sure to face a grilling about her support for financial reparations for Black Americans as a form of repair for slavery and discrimination. Cook will…
“From the beginning, they cleared their officers before Willie was even buried,” Kori McCoy said of the Vallejo Police Department’s investigation of his brother’s death in 2019. As Willie McCoy’s family marked the three-year anniversary of the slain 20-year-old’s death at the hands of police, they still are fighting for a sense of accountability and…
