A Philadelphia Black man who was exonerated this year after he served 31 years behind bars on wrongful murder convictions, 25 years on death row, has now enlisted civil rights attorney Ben Crump and is suing the City of Brotherly Love for $100 million. Christopher Williams, now 61, was released from prison in February after…
The rapper sat down with Charlamagne Tha God a little over a month after the tragic music festival. In his first interview since the tragic Astroworld music festival, Travis Scott denied knowing that people were being injured and killed until after his performance. Scott has been in the headlines since the festival, which resulted in…
The rapper had survived being shot at least eight times back in June 2019, when he was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital. Los Angeles rapper Slim 400 was shot dead in Inglewood, California, on Wednesday night. TMZ is reporting that the 33-year-old was killed in an ambush that is still under investigation. Los Angeles rapper…
“Moonlight” and “Black Panther” are also featured on the newly-released list. Years after its release, Get Out continues to cement its legacy in cinema. This week, the Writer’s Guild of America named the film as the best screenplay of the 21st century, topping a list of 101. Per the official WGA website, the list was…
It’s been 10 days since news broke that actress Tiffany Haddish and rapper-actor Common had decided to end their relationship due to their busy work schedules. Now Common is breaking his silence for the first time and explaining in detail what led to their “mutual” decision. In a recent interview with Jason Lee on “Hollywood…
The science library will be named in memory of Shirley Mathis McBay, the first Black student to earn a doctorate from UGA in 1966 The Georgia Board of Regents on Tuesday approved naming two University of Georgia campus buildings after Black graduates who made history at the institution. The science library will be named in…
It’s been over a decade since Lil Mama crashed Alicia Keys and Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” performance at MTV’s Video Music Awards in 2009. While Lil Mama has said in the past that she’s had suicidal thoughts about the incident, it seems social media won’t allow her or their fans to forget the shocking…
The U.S. and many other nations already were urging adults to get booster shots to pump up immunity that can wane months after vaccination The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters, ruling that 16- and 17-year-olds can get a third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. The U.S. and many other nations already were urging adults to get…
Video footage shows Joe Morrow being handcuffed inside a Minnesota U.S. Bank as he tries to cash his “fake” paycheck, which was later verified as real. A Minnesota man’s encounter with law enforcement has gone viral after the recent release of body-camera footage showing him being handcuffed inside a U.S. Bank branch as he tried…
Source: ALEX BRANDON / Getty If the Republican response to the coronavirus pandemic has indicated nothing else, it has indicated the possibility that a lot of white people were not practicing good hygiene pre-COVID. I started to suspect this during the early stages of the health crisis when scores of color-redacted people were adamant in…
