The convicted murderer of nine in a historic South Carolina church has asked for a new hearing in his case. He is the first person to be sentenced to death for a federal hate crime. Attorneys for the federal government have opposed Dylann Roof’s request for a new appellate hearing, arguing that the South Carolina…
The five-time Emmy Award nominee was discovered dead in his Brooklyn apartment earlier this month The Chief Medical Examiner in New York City has determined that Michael K. Williams died of a drug overdose. Williams’ official cause of death is acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine, per TMZ. His…
Legal challenge may finally bring monetary justice to three survivors a century after the massacre in a Black district in Oklahoma Tulsa Race Massacre survivors are due back in court on Sept. 28. This time a judge will decide on a motion on whether to allow a case that may finally award three remaining survivors…
Jurors are due back in court Monday to resume deliberations on charges against R. Kelly R. Kelly’s fate is now in a jury’s hands after weeks of lurid testimony in his sexual misconduct trial. The panel of seven men and five women began deliberating racketeering and sex trafficking charges against the R&B superstar Friday afternoon,…
Just over a dozen women leaders gave speeches during the first four days of United Nations meetings held in New York, making up 10% of total presentations With cascading crises casting a pall over the proceedings at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, Slovakian President Zuzana Čaputová had this reminder on the first day of…
Migrants walk across the Rio Grande River carrying food and other supplies back to a makeshift encampment under the International Bridge between Del Rio, Texas, and Acuña, Mexico, on September 17, 2021. | Source: Jordan Vonderhaar / Getty The U.S.’s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration’s “inhumane”…
The cast for the dramatic re-imagining of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” is complete, and here are the stars. Just a few weeks ago, actor Will Smith, who starred in the original sitcom of the same name from 1990 to 1996, called and surprised burgeoning actor Jabari Banks with the news that he’d be taking on…
NBA star Stephen Curry and film producer Erick Peyton are taking their multimedia company, Unanimous Media, and partnering with Netflix to adapt the novel “Black Brother, Black Brother” into a film. The story originates from the eponymous NAACP Award-nominated book by author Jewell Parker Rhodes. The story is centered around “12-year-old Donte, who wishes he…
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty According to BOSSIP, gospel singer Kelly Price has allegedly been listed as a missing person in Georgia after being released from the hospital for COVID. Her family last spoke with her in early August and her children visited her while she was in the hospital. While hospitalized, Price’s condition worsened…
Bass represents the 37th district, which includes Culver City, Inglewood and neighborhoods in the city of L.A. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) will run for mayor of Los Angeles according to “two people with knowledge of the situation.” The Washington Post spoke with two anonymous Bass insiders who said she is likely to announce her run…
