On Tuesday, June 29, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would have provided a way for juveniles to have their records expunged after completing a behavioral program. The veto shocked lawmakers after the proposal, which supporters say would have removed barriers to housing, education and employment, moved through the legislature with little opposition….

Long Beach residents found the statue sprayed with white supremacist, Nazi-affiliated symbols Friday and called police. A statue of iconic civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was recently vandalized in Long Beach, California.  Residents discovered the statue had been sprayed with white supremacist, Nazi-affiliated symbols on Friday afternoon and called local police,…

Fatima Johnson was found dead, wrapped in a blanket, with her hands tied behind her back and her mouth gagged. A well-known mother of six was found slain in her in South Los Angeles home, and police are looking for the attacker.  Fatima Johnson was reported missing after she failed to show up at the…

Naturi Naughton called out her former 3LW bandmate Kiely Williams on Tuesday, July 6, after Williams seemingly exposed her role in the infamous KFC altercation between the two women by confirming she wanted to throw a “two piece” at the “Power” actress following her vouch for Phylicia Rashad.   The former 3LW members’ fight occurred in the early 2000s during Naughton’s…

Naughton took to her Instagram stories to defend Rashad, writing that “we are all allowed to have different opinions” amid the backlash surrounding her comments Naturi Naughton is speaking out. In a recent Instagram post, the singer came to Phylicia Rashad‘s defense after her controversial post supporting Bill Cosby following his conviction was overturned last…

Maintaining an active career in the entertainment industry isn’t a smooth task, even though rapper Ice-T‘s tenure on the longest-running live-action show in history, “Law and Order: SVU,” makes it appear otherwise. Ice joined the hit drama series in 2000 as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, right before the start of the show’s second season, and…

Lightning forced rescuers to pause their work for two hours and stiff winds of 20 mph hampered efforts to move heavy debris with cranes, officials said The discovery of four more victims in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium building raised the death toll to 32, officials said Tuesday as a ramped-up search effort…

Nikole Hannah-Jones announced on Tuesday, July 6, that she has declined The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s tenure offer and will instead join the faculty of Howard University. Hannah-Jones made the announcement on Tuesday’s episode of “CBS This Morning,” saying, “Well I’ve decided to decline the offer of tenure. I will not be…

In 2018, six of Gosar’s nine siblings endorsed his opponent, claiming his extreme views made him unfit for Congress. Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar has long been identified as a white nationalist sympathizer, but the Republican’s allegiances to one prominent group and their leader is drawing new scrutiny.  Nick Fuentes praised Gosar this week on his…

Japan’s Asahi newspaper, citing unidentified government sources, said the opening ceremony at the 68,000-seat National Stadium is likely to be limited to VIP only The pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics are shaping up as a TV-only event with few spectators — if any — being allowed when they open in just over two weeks. Japan’s Asahi newspaper,…