UPDATED: 10: a.m. ET, Dec. 9, 2021 Originally published: June 24, 2019 After nearly a three-year hiatus, actor Jussie Smollett is finally having his day(s) in court as the trial to hold him accountable for allegedly staging a hate crime in which he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago. The…
Foster, who struggled with bipolar disorder, passed away two days after being held for his involvement in a high-speed chase and “resisting arrest.” Glenn Foster Jr. died Monday, two days after being taken into police custody following his involvement in a high-speed police chase and, while in jail, a fight with another detainee and several…
Kevin Hart has moved past “missed opportunities,” including his 2018 Oscars hosting debacle. The comedian had been tapped to host the awards ceremony the following year when tweets from over a decade earlier, where he hypothetically joked about negatively reacting to his son being gay, resurfaced. The tweets were deemed to be homophobic by various…
A suspected white supremacist and drug addict who planted a bag of explosives at a Black Lives Matter protest in Pittsburgh last year had the privilege of avoiding any jail time, thanks to a lenient sentence that was apparently inspired out of sympathy for the convicted felon’s history of substance abuse. Pittsburgh man Matthew Michanowicz…
Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Power fans have literally watched Michael Rainey Jr. grow up on the hit crime series since its debut on Starz in June 2014. Rainey plays Tariq St. Patrick, the son of drug kingpin “Ghost” who inevitably follows in his infamous father’s footsteps in the show’s spin-off series Power Book II:…
A Minnesota man is accused of intimidating the judge and interfering with the judicial process in the manslaughter trial of former police officer Kim Potter. The activist was arrested and charged with harassing the court official, and now his past relationship with the judge could have an effect on his new case. A group of…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty A statue honoring Confederate general Robert E. Lee that stood for over 100 years in Charlottesville, Virginia was ceremoniously taken down this past summer. Following plans to either have it donated to a museum, sold to a collector or destroyed altogether, the Charlottesville City Council came to an agreement…
“This feels like coming home to family,” Alcindor said. PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor is joining the NBC News Washington team next year. Alcindor will cover the Biden administration for NBC News beginning in March, Variety reports. Ken Strickland, NBC News senior vice president and Washington bureau chief, announced in a memo to staff on Tuesday that…
Janet Hubert, famously known for her role as the original Aunt Viv from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” took to Instagram on Dec. 7 to deliver a message to those she deemed as “vultures” following her recent hospitalization. This post comes three days after the actress revealed she was in the hospital for undisclosed reasons…
Erykah Badu sparked engagement rumors on Dec. 4, after sharing an Instagram upload with her alleged 27-year-old fiancé, JaRon Adkison. In the social media post, Badu uploaded various snapshots of the pair during the solar eclipse, which happened the same day. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the Earth and the sun, ultimately casting…
