Source: wiki / iOne Digital Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to Julius Jones Thursday right before his scheduled execution following a recommendation from the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board. Jones’s sentence was reduced from the death penalty to life in prison. Stitt also ordered that Jones never be eligible to apply for or be…
A possible hate crime investigation has been launched at Monroe High School located in Washington state, after two students were involved in an altercation that led to a Black student being hit over the head with a plastic bottle after allegedly being called the N-word repeatedly. According to Monroe police Cmdr. Paul Ryan, the incident…
Stitt commuted the 41-year-old Jones’ death sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole just hours before he was set to be executed Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of condemned inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, just hours before his scheduled execution. Jones has proclaimed his innocence from death row for more than two…
Steve Harvey left fans shook on Nov. 17 after the “Family Feud” host uploaded a video celebrating Founders Day for Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Omega Psi Phi is an African-American fraternity founded in 1911 by three Howard University undergraduates named Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, and Frank Coleman, and faculty adviser Dr. Ernest Everett…
Chris Tucker is facing some legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service claiming in a recent federal lawsuit that the “Friday” star owes $9.6 million in unpaid taxes. If true, Uncle Sam could potentially start seizing the actor’s bank accounts and other assets. According to Radar Online, the 50-year-old, who has had tax issues in…
Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Young Dolph led to the temporary closure of an upscale Memphis spot owned by a longtime rival. Police in Memphis temporarily shut down Prive, a restaurant owned by rapper Yo Gotti, in the wake of Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Young Dolph, a Gotti rival. TMZ is reporting local law enforcement swarmed the…
Pfizer asked the FDA to authorize emergency use of the experimental pill, which has been shown to significantly cut the rate of hospitalizations and deaths among people with coronavirus The U.S. government will pay drugmaker Pfizer $5.29 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its potential COVID-19 treatment if regulators authorize it, the nation’s largest…
City Councilman J.B. Smiley wants “a curfew to preserve the safety of all citizens” as cops seek Dolph’s killer. Leaders in Memphis, Tennessee, are calling for peace after the fatal shooting of Young Dolph in his hometown on Wednesday afternoon. As previously reported, the rapper was shot and killed outside of Makeda’s Cookies, a shop…
Members of the Salt Lake City, Utah, community are still reeling after Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor, 10, took her life last week after reportedly being harassed, bullied, and called the n-word by her classmates. “Izzy’s parents did what they could, they were attentive to their child and noticed behavioral shifts, and they did reach out to…
The mistrial bid was sparked by a jury request to re-watch video evidence, including drone footage that prosecutors used to try to undermine Rittenhouse’s self-defense claim The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial began deliberating for a third day Thursday with a new defense request for a mistrial hanging over the politically and racially fraught…
