Policemen keep a mob back as James Meredith, a Black student trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi, is driven away after being refused admittance to the all-white university in Oxford on Sept. 25, 1962. AP Photo The Supreme Court’s historically low public standing has prompted a national conversation about the court’s legitimacy….
The life of Keshawn Thomas, 27, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was cut short on Aug. 28, 2022, at a Valero gas station by three Albuquerque police officers after what was supposed to be a welfare check turned deadly. Mounting questions remain more than two months after Thomas was killed and are the subject of a…
Tisha Campbell had the opportunity to reunite with her “My Wife and Kids” co-star and on-screen daughter Jennifer Freeman at a fancy restaurant as they celebrated their birthdays. Both of the women have birthdays in the month of October — Campbell’s being the 13th while Freeman’s is the 20th — so they thought it would…
An Ohio officer who shot a Black man firing celebratory gunshots in his backyard on New Year’s Day won’t face criminal charges, and the city review board says he acted appropriately. Reports show an internal review of the incident by a panel of Canton’s top law enforcement officials and the city attorney concluded that officer…
Source: Kent Nishimura / Getty Nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court decided Grutter v. Bollinger, which narrowed the use of race as a mere factor to be considered in college decisions, students are once again front and center in the fight to protect affirmative action. Now, the anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions…
Will Smith is giving high praises to an unlikely friend. Following a recent private screening of his upcoming film “Emancipation,” the Academy Award winner took a moment to talk about championship boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., who Smith said called for nearly two weeks straight to check up on him following his infamous altercation at the…
Kanye West’s storm of anti-Semitic remarks and conspiracy theories surrounding George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers in May 2020 appears subdued after the “Donda” emcee attempted to sympathize and apologize to the family of Floyd. West recently falsely suggested fentanyl played a role in the 46-year-old’s passing. The comments came after multiple…
Source: PABLO PORCIUNCULA / Getty Brazilian voters rejected a second term of far-right rule Sunday evening. With over a two million vote lead, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as simply Lula, is now president-elect. Lula beat Bolsonaro by approximately six million votes in the first round, but not enough to beat incumbent…
TV personality Sheryl Underwood looked absolutely stunning on Oct. 28 as she partied alongside Bell Biv DeVoe for her surprise “Ultimate House Party” on her Daytime Emmy-winning talk show, “The Talk.” Underwood rocked a skin-tight purple dress with high heels and debuted her new body to the audience to showcase the progress of her health…
A suburban Detroit man is suing a local police department, its chief and officers for $1 million after he was arrested, he says, without probable cause and with excessive force. David Hurley, 59, said Farmington Hills police officers crushed his back, smashed his face to the ground and jammed a knee into his neck while…
