Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty Last week, Empire actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail and ordered to pay restitution of $120,000 and $25,000 in fines after he was convicted in 2019 of staging the hate crime he said he suffered. Well, according to the New York Times, “An Illinois appellate court ruled…
A West African architect who won a prestigious industry prize makes it a point to build with local materials and artisans from his home country. Diébédo Francis Kéré made history on March 15, as the first African-born winner of the Pritzker Prize often referred to as the Nobel prize of architecture. When he pursued his…
Joe Budden‘s appreciation video to his ex Cyn Santana took a turn on March 16, after the model dismissed his remarks. The former couple, which shares a 4-year-old son named Lexington Budden, split in 2019 after Santana allegedly found nude photos of other women on Budden’s phone, which he ultimately denied. Santana and Budden first started…
Roughly 13% of mail ballots returned in the March 1 primary were discarded and uncounted across 187 counties in Texas Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans…
Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges A Moscow court has extended the arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, according to the Russian state news agency Tass. Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February after Russian…
Source: recep-bg / Getty Another day, another institution of learning catches heat over a racist and arbitrary policy against Black hairstyles. While Republican legislators are blocking the passing of the Crown Act, which would prohibit employers and schools from banning protective hairstyles like braids and locs as well as afros, a Florida high school is…
The bill, HB 1354, creates clearer guidelines and standardizes compensation for those wrongfully convicted of crimes. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives in Georgia cleared the way for a bill that would give exonerated former inmates $50,000 to 100,000 for each year they wrongly spent in jail, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The bill, HB…
A former Ku Klux Klan leader has qualified to run for office in North Georgia. Chester Doles once held the title of Grand Klaliff of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and now he wants to be a Lumpkin County commissioner. Chester Doles is a political candidate who once lead the Ku…
EXCLUSIVE: Vice President Kamala Harris, along with department officials, announced that “Project Serve Grants” will provide up to $150,000 per school. The Biden-Harris administration is leaning in on addressing the countless bomb threats made against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority and religious institutions this year. In response to the threats of…
The child was on her period at the time she was made to undress without another adult present, according to a review. Scotland Yard has apologized for its officers’ strip-search of a Black schoolgirl who was wrongly accused of carrying cannabis. The child was on her period at the time she was made to undress…
