At least 126,000 gallons of oil pollutes waters off Huntington Beach in Orange County One of the largest oil spills in recent Southern California history fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled Sunday to contain the crude before it spread further into protected wetlands. At least 126,000 gallons of oil spilled into the…
Keshia Knight Pulliam shocked fans everywhere on Oct. 2 after announcing she recently got married to actor Brad James. This news comes about nine months following James’ proposal to “The Cosby Show” actress. The couple met back in 2019 while on the set of “Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta.” Keshia Knight Pulliam announced she got married…
“The doctors told me that I was VERY lucky not to have died,” Marc Lamont Hill says in Instagram post Black intellectual Marc Lamont Hill revealed on social media that he suffered a mild heart attack in late September one day after undergoing surgery to fix a damaged Achilles tendon. The 42-year-old took to Instagram…
“Happy anniversary, Barack—love you! ❤️😘” Michelle wrote on Twitter The former First Couple is still going strong! Former President Barack Obama, 60, and former First Lady Michelle Obama, 57, celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 3. Michelle commemorated the occasion on Twitter with a tribute to how far the couple has come in…
Singer Ray J surprised his big sister Brandy with a tattoo of her name on his arm. The “Have You Ever” singer shared a snapshot of the tattoo on Instagram on Wednesday, Sept. 29 and many fans pointed out the font of the tattoo’s font . WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 09: (L-R) Ray J and…
Auburn University professors employ Facebook to lead identification campaign of Selma protestors The world knows the names of John Lewis and a few more of the voting rights demonstrators who walked across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 only to be attacked by Alabama state troopers on a day that came to be called “Bloody…
Source: 2020 Billboard Women In Music / Getty Halle Bailey keeps proving to us all why she was the perfect choice for the upcoming live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid.” Friday night, the younger half of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle had a special performance at Walt Disney World’s 50th Anniversary Special. There, the…
Judge rules Ahmaud Arbery’s medical privacy trumped the rights of the men standing trial in his killing Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records can’t be used as trial evidence by the white men who chased and killed the 25-year-old Black man as he was running in their neighborhood, a Georgia judge ruled Friday. The decision by Superior Court…
A cybersecurity firm is now at the helm of an investigation into racist emails sent to Black student groups at the University of Massachusetts. The offensive emails targeting students began circulating in late August from the “UMass Coalition for a Better Society.” The school’s own police and technology staff attempted to track down the source…
Judge rules police Sgt. Ryan O’Neill acted “reasonably under the law” in the 2019 shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by a white South Bend police officer in a killing that snarled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign….
