Essence on Tuesday announced the honorees for the 14th annual ceremony on April 22 Whoopi Goldberg, Andra Day and Zendaya will be among the honorees at this year’s Essence Black Women in Hollywood event, which will be livestreamed during Oscars week for the first time this year. Essence on Tuesday announced the honorees for the 14th annual ceremony on…
Three white officers were accused of attacking a Black undercover officer, requiring multiple surgeries No convictions were returned for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague so severely during a protest over another officer’s acquittal that he had to undergo multiple surgeries. A jury on Monday acquitted Officer Steven…
The ‘Tonight Show’ host and TikTok star almost immediately got heat on social media for Friday night’s bit. A clip from last week’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has gone viral, and not in the good way. Fallon and Addison Rae are facing backlash for their performance of TikTok dances, many of which were…
Witness Donald Williams testified Monday that he thought Derek Chauvin used a shimmying motion several times to increase the pressure on Floyd A man who was among onlookers shouting at a Minneapolis police officer to get off George Floyd last May was to continue testifying Tuesday, a day after he described seeing Floyd struggle for…
Source: Crime Stoppers / NYPD *The report below includes an act of violence which may be triggering to some readers. The NYPD is asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect who brutally assaulted a 65-year-old Asian American woman who was on her way to to church. The incident comes as the height of…
An Asian American woman was attacked by a man who repeatedly kicked her as two people nearby who appeared to be security guards did not intervene An Asian American woman was attacked by a man who repeatedly kicked her as two people nearby who appeared to be security guards did not intervene, according to surveillance…
Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard is calling out what he sees as media biases on behalf of his fellow NFL player Deshaun Watson, and he doesn’t care who gets mad about it. The 25-year-old football player fired off a slew of tweets on Saturday, March 27, spotlighting the difference in coverage between the 19 filed…
N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s acting counsel says the state’s goal has been to implement a vaccination plan ‘that is fair and equitable.’ A New York judge has ruled that all people incarcerated in New York State prisons and jails must be vaccinated after being “arbitrarily excluded” from the state’s vaccine rollout. Justice Alison Y. Tuitt…
A Black Philadelphia woman claims her own heroism is the reason she and her grandmother survived a house fire, not the local police who told the media they were responsible for saving the two women. “I’m so upset with Philadelphia police, and then to get on camera and lie and say that you helped, say that you…
Cardi B wants better haircare options for Afro-Latinas and Hispanic people so she’s creating the change she wants to see. The “Up” rapper announced on Instagram that she is releasing a hair care line sometime this year after developing her formula at home using herself and her 2-year-old daughter Kulture Kiari Cephus as test subjects….
