Van Dyke received a nearly seven-year prison sentence in 2019 for McDonald’s 2014 death The former Chicago police officer who fatally shot Laquan McDonald in 2014 is getting out of prison early next month, according to multiple sources. Jason Van Dyke is scheduled to be released on Feb. 3, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, though…
The U.S. is experiencing some of the highest rates of inflation the nation has seen since the early 1980s as Americans are noticing price hikes at the grocery store, gas station and coffee shop. The price of goods and services climbed 6.8 percent in November, according to the most recent U.S. Labor Department data. The inflation rate…
Vanessa A. Williams reprised her role as Ann-Marie in the Jordan Peele-written remake of “Candyman.” The Nia DaCosta-directed movie raked in roughly $22.3 million its initial domestic weekend, making history by becoming the first film directed by a Black woman to open No. 1 at the domestic box office. Viewers remember Anne-Marie as a Black single…
Van Hunt might be ready to marry Halle Berry under one condition. On Thursday, Hunt spoke with host Domenick Nati of “The Domenick Nati Show,” where he made a joke about the one thing he needs in order to pop the question to Berry. Nati started by speaking with Hunt about how he and Berry…
OPINION: Voting rights are under the greatest threat in six decades, and the fundamental rights of Black voters are at stake. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment President Joe Biden is promoting bold voting rights legislation and wants Democrats in the Senate to pass it. The stakes for the Democratic Party could not be greater, and…
Tyler Gordon’s painting of LeBron James landed on the cover of Time Magazine Tyler Gordon is a 15-year-old, partially deaf, self-taught painter, who has gone viral for his breathtaking portraits of celebrities such as Betty White, Vice President Kamala Harris, and LeBron James. In 2020, his painting of James landed on the cover of Time…
Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty At some point, racist white people are going to have to learn that throwing bigot tantrums in public spaces might not work out well for them in the digital age where literally everyone has a camera on them at all times. Two pigment-redacted New Yorkers were riding the train…
Attorneys for a Black man brutally beaten by two Atlanta-area police officers nearly five years ago have settled with Gwinnett County. “We are pleased that Gwinnett County has opted to resolve the lawsuit brought by Demetrius Hollins,” Justin Miller and Dianna Lee said in an email statement sent out on Tuesday, Jan. 11, regarding the…
The lawsuit filed against Nicki Minaj by her husband’s accuser has been dropped voluntarily. In 1995, Kenneth Petty was convicted of attempted rape in the first-degree for assaulting Jennifer Hough in 1994 and spent four years in prison. Hough filed the lawsuit against Minaj and Petty claiming that the couple had threatened her in an attempt to intimidate her into recanting…
“He was supposed to be trained to protect and serve life, not to take life,” said Crump. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called on authorities in Fayetteville, North Carolina to release “the truth” about the death of Jason Walker, a 37-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy. State authorities…
