Source: AP / Youtube An ex-Louisiana state police officer was indicted by a grand jury for beating a Black man 18 times with a flashlight in Monroe, Louisiana. According to officials Jacob Brown repeatedly struck Larry Bowman with his flashlight after a routine traffic stop. Bowman was left with a broken jaw, broken ribs, and…
Gabrielle Union isn’t about to let Hollywood higher-ups play her out of the payday she deserves. The “Being Mary Jane” actress, 48, has been vocal about her dedication to the fight for equal pay within the entertainment industry over the past few years, previously telling USA Today that “little by little” Black women and women…
As the circus that so far has been R. Kelly’s second sex abuse trial comes to an end, it wouldn’t be right if his defense didn’t go out with just one more bang. That honor was given to his defense attorney Deveraux Cannick, who boldly said in court that Kelly’s fight to make a jury…
An investigation has been launched after an alarming cellphone video showed how three white Missouri officers allowed a police dog to attack a Black man during an arrest that has since gone viral. The incident took place on Monday, Sept. 20, when law enforcement in the St. Louis suburb of Woodson Terrace responded to a…
A number of anti-vax right-wing talk show hosts have been not only coming down with COVID-19, but they’ve also been dying in an unfortunate trend following their expressions of doubt about or completely discrediting the COVID-19 vaccine to their millions of listeners. But in a decided departure from that growing apparent tradition, the latest person…
Katt Williams is clearing up his recent comments regarding him participating in a comedian-style “Verzuz” with Kevin Hart — or anyone else for that matter. Radio hosts Ebro Darden and Peter Rosenberg asked Williams to talk more about the subject in a Tuesday interview on “Ebro In the Morning.” Around the 32-minute mark in the…
Transcribed by: Taji Senior September 23,2021 Gerren Keith Gaynor [00:00:03] Welcome to Dear Culture, the podcast that gives you news you can trust for the culture of your co-host Gerren Keith Gaynor, managing editor at theGrio Dr. Christina Greer [00:00:11] And I’m your special guest co-host theGrio politics editor and associate professor of political science at Fordham University, Dr….
Olivia Sky, the mother of Bow Wow’s alleged son, Stone Moss, may be calling out the rapper after he seemingly disowned the 1-year-old on Twitter. A few days after Bow Wow insinuated in multiple Twitter posts that he only has one child, his 10-year-old daughter Shai Moss, Skyy seemingly hit him back with a response….
The victim in the 1994 sexual assault case that sent Kenneth ‘Zoo’ Petty — who is now Nicki Minaj’s husband — to prison for four years is now speaking out publicly about the campaign she says the couple has been waging to force her to recant her story about Petty raping her when they were…
Police linked the phone to Derremy Jerrell Walker because of his tattoos A former janitor at Oviedo High School in Florida has been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for planting a camera inside a girls’ bathroom. Derremy Jerrell Walker, 31, was arrested in February 2020 after he was busted for video voyeurism of…
