On May 27 of last year, 24-year-old Amaurie Johnson was approached by police in La Mesa, California, for smoking in public, which he denied doing saying he was just waiting on a friend to pick him up. One officer involved in the altercation that followed, Matthew Dages, was fired after video footage showed him violently…
A Los Angeles painter has debuted the first hyperrealistic portrait of Harriet Tubman at the 2021 Aku World exhibition at the Art Basel event in Miami, Florida. The 74 X 60 oil painting features a high-definition artistic rendering of the former enslaved woman and abolitionist, most notably known for helping the free Black people from…
Celestina Bishop turned her pain into purpose after finding that the grounds her mother and family were buried had been abandoned at Woodlawn Cemetery Celestina Bishop has been riding a wave of emotions for the last 19 months. On Mother’s Day 2020, she visited Woodlawn Cemetery in Compton, California, only to find the grounds where…
Thorpe is the latest recipient of the Varkey Foundation’s $1 million Global Teacher Prize. Keishia Thorpe, an educator in Maryland, has been honored for her hard work in the classroom. Thorpe, who teaches 12th grade English at International High School Langley Park in Bladensburg, Maryland, became the latest recipient of the Varkey Foundation’s $1 million…
Unnamed juror told The Chicago Sun-Times that in the end, the jury of six women and six men “all thought we were doing Jussie a favor.” A juror in the trial of The State of Illinois vs. Jussie Smollett is speaking out after the actor was found guilty of five felony counts of disorderly conduct. …
Nick Cannon recently honored his late son with a heartwarming tribute. During the Friday, Dec. 10, episode of his self-titled daytime television show, the 41-year-old debuted a brand new piece of artwork — a tattoo of his late son Zen. The infant passed away last weekend from brain cancer. He was 5 months old. Nick…
Amy Cooper notoriously called police and made false claims against Central Park bird watcher Christian Cooper, a Black man. In an Instagram post this weekend, Tina Knowles-Lawson questioned if actor Jussie Smollett would receive “the same compassion” shown to Amy Cooper, who notoriously called police and made false claims against Black Central Park bird watcher…
Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump said he plans to move forward with a lawsuit against Louisiana’s agency overseeing child welfare over years-old allegations that Black children were sexually abused while in the state’s custody. Crump, who represents a woman claiming that she and her sibling were raped by “wealthy white men” when they…
“I’m sitting in here doing life plus 25 for a crime that was never committed for something I’ve never done, and I’m in my own house trying to protect myself,” Prentice Ponds II, 48, laments from an Oklahoma state prison. Ponds is serving a life prison sentence after being convicted of robbery and insurance fraud…
It turns out that there is a world where an incident involving a violent and overzealous school resource officer (SRO) body-slamming, manhandling and/or brutally assaulting a student results in immediate action that doesn’t include putting a victim on trial for their own attack—it’s the world where the officer is Black and the child is, well,…
