“It’s a scar on a family that will probably never go away even with the returning of the land and restitution, this will always be with this family,” said Chief Duane ‘Yellow Feather’ Shepard, Bruce family spokesman and historian. Descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce are nearing the end of a nearly century-long fight to…
Source: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. ET, Oct. 7, 2021 Originally Published 12:00 p.m. Oct. 4, 2018 Several influential African-American poets have captivated the nation with their poems for decades and these black poets deserve their flowers. On National Poetry Day, Americans can reflect on their works, from pieces that touch on…
Willow Smith candidly opened up during an Oct. 5 “Red Table Talk” episode about her experience with a cyber stalker breaking into her home. Smith’s cyber stalking incident occurred after a convicted sex offender named Walter James Whaley began communicating with the singer online about how he wanted to create a family with her. Things…
According to the indictment, the ex-players submitted false and fraudulent claims to get reimbursed for medical and dental expenses that were never actually incurred. Eighteen former NBA players have been charged with defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4 million, according to an indictment Thursday in New York. Federal prosecutors…
Kane could also face prosecution under U.S. and Canadian law National Hockey League star Evander Kane is being investigated for submitting a fake vaccination card to the league—violating COVID-19 protocols. On September 3, 2021, the NHL released its protocols, levying severe restrictions on players who aren’t vaccinated. Those players will only be able to go to their…
Nine New York City firefighters have been suspended without pay for their involvement in a series of racist messages and memes shared by cellphone in what many officials are calling the “most severe discipline ever handed down in the history of the department.” The organization is rarely known to terminate or suspend its employees for…
The Brookline Fire Department closes Station 5 on Babcock Street in Coolidge Corner in Brookline, MA, pictured on March 24, 2020. | Source: Boston Globe / Getty Brookline, a town adjacent to Boston, is saying “I’m sorry for my white supremacist ways” with its wallet after awarding a Black firefighter $11 million to settle a…
“I think he has mental illness. I think he’s a narcissist,” said Johnson Singer/songwriter and Chicago-native, Syleena Johnson, chimed in with her opinion on the conviction of disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly on federal sex trafficking charges. In a Tuesday appearance on Fox Soul’s Cocktails with Queens, where Johnson is a co-host along with Claudia…
The man accused of playing monkey sounds and racist music whenever his Black neighbors come and go from their home in Virginia Beach has reportedly been identified as a nearly 50-year-old white man who lives with his mother. Social media sleuths claim to have uncovered the name of the man who is seemingly being protected…
Ray J and Princess Love are allegedly back in the “…or for worse” territory of marriage based on reports that the unhappy couple could be headed for divorce court yet again. The Raycon founder previously filed for divorce from Princess in September 2020, months after she filed in May of the same year, and it…
