The Department of Justice announced Monday, June 21, that an Indiana man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release after making racially motivated threats to a Black neighbor in June 2020. Shepherd Hoehn, 51, of Lawrence, pleaded guilty in February to violating the Fair Housing Act and for…

Police responded to the singer’s home in Tarzana on Friday, where an unidentified woman said Brown slapped her forcefully. Embattled singer Chris Brown is once again under investigation for violence against a woman.  Police responded to the singer’s home in the San Fernando Valley on Friday, where an unidentified woman claimed Brown had slapped her…

Source: Getty Images / Getty Tamir Rice‘s mother used no uncertain terms when addressing Shaun King in a recent social media post that called him out for sharing the details of a recent conversation they had. Samaria Rice, mother of a 12-year-old boy gunned down in 2014 by police in Cleveland within seconds of seeing…

Earlier this year, Tiffany Haddish shocked the world with a bold blond new hair color; now she’s gone through another physical transformation.  In a chat with “Extra,” she discussed the 50 pounds she lost during the pandemic. She showed the outfit she was wearing and shared that she would be wearing the outfit later on…

Kyanni Williams was supposed to be delivered via natural birth at Denver Health, but her mom’s labor was induced A couple in Denver, Colorado was traumatized when the birth of their newborn required an emergency cesarean section, resulting in a cut to the baby’s face that required 13 stitches.  Damarqus Williams said the injury to…

Thirty states currently exempt braiders from licensure, according to the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit civil liberties organization People would be allowed to braid hair without a license under a bipartisan bill the Wisconsin Senate was set to send to Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday. The Black community has been pushing to deregulate braiding for…

One doctor said health workers at the scene reported “more than 80 civilian deaths.” An airstrike hit a busy market in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday, according to health workers who said soldiers blocked medical teams from traveling to the scene. Dozens of people were killed, they and a former resident said,…

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and a team of lawyers spent eleven months putting together a case to convict former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.  Ellison, who, like many others, witnessed cops walk away as free men after the public beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, was never certain…

Although the White House has characterized voting rights as “the fight of his presidency,” Biden has prioritized his economic initiatives When New York Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones was at the White House for the signing of the proclamation making Juneteenth a national holiday last week, he told President Joe Biden their party needed him more involved in…