Bodycam video showing a former Cleveland police officer using excessive force against Black men was recently released by city officials. Patrolman John Petkac, 30, was stripped of his badge in December after findings from an internal investigation revealed he “repeatedly used excessive, unnecessary and objectively unreasonable uses of force” between 2018 and 2019. Cleveland Public…

Angela Simmons flooded her fans’ Instagram feed on March 1 with two glamour uploads, including a solo shot and another with her older sister Vanessa Simmons. The photo that generated the most attention and likes was the post that included Vanessa, because fans deemed it’s been awhile since the duo have been seen together. Angela, who sported…

Head coach Greg McDermott of the Creighton Bluejays tweeted Tuesday that he ‘immediately recognized my egregious mistake.’ The head coach of Creighton University’s basketball team apologized Tuesday for a recent remark in which he told his players to “stay on the plantation.”  After losing a game this weekend, Coach Greg McDermott made the comments in…

Since his early days in the group N.W.A., rapper Ice Cube has never been one to mince words with those who brought displeasure to him or the Black community. Decades later, this reality remains the same as the 51-year-old calls out Warner Bros. for opting to not move forward with another film in the “Friday”…

‘It is okay not to know who you are,’ she said, addressing America’s young, ‘or exactly what you want to be or do right now.’ America’s “Forever First Lady” Michelle Obama announced the release of a young readers’ edition and a paperback edition of her best-selling memoir, Becoming, on social media Tuesday.  In her video,…

UPDATED: 9:45 a.m. ET, March 3, 2021 — The Senate voted 95-4 in favor of Cecilia Rouse‘s confirmation on Tuesday, sealing her mark in history as the first black person to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers. As President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser Rouse will help the Biden-Harris reverse course from the…

It has been about half a year since Tamar Braxton and her ex-boyfriend David Adefeso went through their messy breakup. In September, Adefeso went on a YouTube livestream and accused Braxton of domestic violence. He claimed that she punched him in the jugular while he was driving, causing him to crash his vehicle. Braxton has…

‘They’re using the filibuster to deny progress, basically, to low-income people,’ Clyburn said, blasting his Republican colleagues. South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking House Democrat, scolded Republicans for their opposition of an increase in the minimum wage.  “You see that our Republican colleagues are now adhering to the political philosophies that are a throwback…

Different kinfolk can rotate the slot, but only one will be let in court at a time — and the same applies to the accused’s family. A Minnesota judge has ruled that only one member of George Floyd’s grieving family will be able to attend the pending trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who…

For 14 years, Young has worked on the staff of the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, the last four as its staff director. Shalanda Young, who was being vetted for confirmation as the deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is now being considered for director after Neera Tanden withdrew her…