“I can’t really explain the feeling … it was out of body,” says Blake, noting depressive symptoms worsen his pain. One year after being shot seven times in the back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, Jr. has spoken out about his life since the shooting. Blake told CNN that this year,…
“This is the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission these last couple of days,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken The United States has the capacity to evacuate the approximately 300 U.S. citizens remaining in Afghanistan who want to leave before President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline, senior administration officials said, as rocket fire…
Ida was blamed for at least one death — someone hit by a falling tree outside Baton Rouge — but the full extent of its fury was still coming into focus A fearsome Hurricane Ida left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued Monday while making a shambles of…
A South Florida man’s attorneys argued in court on Monday, Aug. 23, that he was acting in self-defense when he threatened a group of teenage Black Lives Matter protesters with a gun. On Thursday, Aug. 25, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alberto Milian rejected that plea and refused to dismiss the case. During a 2019 Martin Luther…
In an Instagram Story post that has since been deleted, Brown wrote of West: “Kanye a whole h*e.” Singer Chris Brown called out rapper Kanye West in the wake of this weekend’s release of the MC’s 10th studio LP, the long-awaited Donda. The album was released on Sunday morning, and Brown is featured on one…
Former fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons maintains that her ex-husband’s fraud allegations against her are just that, fraud. In May 2021, veteran music executive Russell Simmons filed a lawsuit against Kimora and her husband, Tim Leissner, for allegedly transferring and using Russell’s shares from Celsius’s energy drink company as collateral for Leissner’s bond in his…
The film debuts in theaters on September 17 and on Prime Video on October 1 There’s an unmissable new documentary headed our way thanks to Amazon Studios — a film about one of the nation’s most overlooked heroes, Pauli Murray. My Name is Pauli Murray is set to hit theaters on September 17 and will be…
Source: Carolyn Cole / Getty Robert Anderson was still getting used to his new community when police killed him in Crescent City, CA. The 38-year-old former bus driver was from Detroit was shot and killed after California Highway Patrol and officers with the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office responded. Still using the antiquated ‘officer-involved shooting’…
Source: MARK FELIX / Getty As Hurricane Ida makes landfall, residents across the region have been advised to shelter in place. According to MSNBC, Gov. John Bel Edwards urged Louisiana residents to hunker down for at least the next 72 hours. Earlier Sunday afternoon, the National Weather Service for New Orleans echoed the governor’s warning, urging people to shelter in…
Of the three signs that were left on the rappers doorstep, one stated “45 44 Burnt Out,” a recent lyric from Drake Signs that read, “CLB coming soon,” “F*ck Justin LaBoy” and “45 44 Burnt Out,” were left outside rapper Kanye West’s childhood home in Chicago in a reported vandalization. Some are alleging that the…
