Just past the Village Theatre and a quaint corner chocolate shop is the intersection where Officer Andrew Hall shot and killed a 33-year-old mentally ill man in 2018. History repeated itself this spring, when Hall fired his gun and killed another 33-year-old mentally ill man on the streets of this wealthy San Francisco suburb. The…
Apps like Hinge, Tinder, Match and Bumble are offering special incentives to people who roll up their sleeves, including free access to premium content The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who’ve gotten their coronavirus shots. The Biden administration said Friday it’s teaming up…
Check out these five series featuring many of our faves dominating Black Hollywood There are tons of things to watch this weekend, whether you’re looking for some heart-pounding intensity, mind-bending sci-fi, or something to tug at your heartstrings. Aside from the return of fan favorites like The Chi and Black Monday at Showtime, music fans…
Nikole Hannah-Jones, an investigative journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her commentary on The New York Times’ 1619 Project has been denied tenure at her alma mater after pushback from conservatives. The University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism announced in April that Hannah-Jones would become the newest Knight Chair in…
The museum’s part of a $349 million mixed-use project being built along the Harlem River waterfront in the Bronx. Years in the making, the Universal Hip-Hop Museum is getting closer to physical reality. Several hip-hop legends attended the groundbreaking at the site of the permanent home of the museum yesterday. Nas, LL Cool J, Fat…
Martin’s family doesn’t believe the findings of a preliminary investigation indicating that he took his own life inside the attic of that home Derontae Martin was a playful and outgoing 19-year-old, a former football standout and a “big kid” who looked out for his friends and family. Now, his mother, grandmother and racial injustice activists…
Another rope tied like a noose was discovered Wednesday at the site in Windsor, about 10 miles north of Hartford Amazon has temporarily shut down a new warehouse construction site in Connecticut after a seventh noose was found hanging over a beam, a series of incidents local police called “potential” hate crimes. Another rope tied…
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Def Jams Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons. Russell accused the former supermodel and her husband, investment banker Tim Leissner, of fraud. He also claimed that the couple illegally transferred and used Russell’s shares from an energy drink company to pay…
Source: Brent N. Clarke / Getty A crowd of protesters gathered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Thursday in a solidarity protest over the tenure denial of Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones. The group was organized by the Chapel Hill – Carrboro NAACP chapter along with the Carolina Black Caucus. Demonstrators including students, faculty…
Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Amid a national push for police reform, a blend of brutality, corruption and malfeasance has been the prevailing culture in recent years within the Lousiana State Police. In the wake of the bombshell reports that Lousiana State Police troopers brutalized motorist Ronald Greene to death two years ago in…
