The Athletics Integrity Unit said the American’s second career ban was for “tampering within the results management process” of doping control samples Olympic hurdles champion Brianna Rollins-McNeal was banned for five years on Friday in a doping case, ruling her out of this year’s Tokyo Games and the 2024 Paris Games. The Athletics Integrity Unit…
Taylor Skidmore, assistant principal at Sacajawea Middle School, offered to remove the 14-year-old twins from their class when their mother called to raise concerns A family in Spokane, Washington, is demanding that a school administrator be removed after he suggested he could segregate two Black middle school students who were directed to clean freshly picked…
Natasha Ashworth sued Gooding in 2019, saying he repeatedly groped her backside at the nightclub where she worked. The female bartender who accused Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. of groping her has won a default judgment against him after he refused to respond to her lawsuit for over a year. Natasha Ashworth sued the…
O.J. Simpson listens to the not guilty verdict with his attorneys F. Lee Bailey (left) and Johnnie Cochran Jr (right) in 1995. | Source: MYUNG CHUN / Getty F. Lee Bailey just may be the only white person in history to publicly say the N-word (hard R and all) and receive a widespread pass from…
New York Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman recently spoke out about a comment made by former Major League Baseball player and manager Bob Brenly that he said had “racist undertones.” It was while Stroman was pitching in Tuesday’s televised game between the Mets and the Arizona Diamondbacks, when Brenly, a Diamondbacks television analyst, jokingly remarked that…
Community members rebuilt a makeshift barrier around the location of George Floyd’s death at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis after city workers removed artwork, flowers, and barriers from the site early in the morning on June 3. In the unannounced move, Minneapolis Public Works crews reopened the area to traffic after it had…
Tyler Terry and Adrienne Simpson, facing murder charges in South Carolina and Missouri, are suspects in another killing. A real-life Bonnie and Clyde couple is accused of killing people in three states. Tyler Terry, 26, and his 34-year-old girlfriend, Adrienne Simpson, have already been charged with two counts of murder in South Carolina, as well…
Black head coaches and executives in professional sports is something longtime sports television personality Stephen A. Smith has long advocated for. Earlier this week, the “First Take” commentator seemingly reached his boiling point after blasting NBA players for not pushing for more Black representation in areas off the court, which ultimately resulted in him storming…
Other hotel guests chanted “Shame!” at the women, a scene reminiscent of the HBO medieval drama “Game of Thrones.” Several white women were escorted out of a hotel pool recently after complaining about a Black queer couple kissing publicly. The women grumbled that there were “children present.” A video of them quickly went viral over…
President Joe Biden and his administration are ramping up their efforts to get more Americans vaccinated before the next major holiday, which would include free items, according to a Fact Sheet released by the White House on Wednesday, June 2. Biden unveiled his “National Month of Action” initiative this week that included an outline of…
