Source: RudyBalasko / Getty A man was shot and killed by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, and the local police department says the victim pulled a knife and injured the cop who killed him. While neither the officer nor the civilian has been publicly identified yet, protesters have been gathering in Madison, indicating…
Nolan Wells (Famiily) | Trey Reed (Facebook) As both families pursue independent autopsies or reviews, advocates are raising broader questions about several disputed death investigations in Mississippi. Mississippi’s chief medical examiner is facing renewed scrutiny after handling several high-profile death investigations involving Black residents. In a state with a long history of racial injustice, advocates…
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, bristled at Rep. Bill Foster during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on July 15. The Illinois Democrat, who also is a Ph.D. physicist and manufacturer, used his five minutes to drag Vought through a bruising tour of everything the Trump administration is dismantling at…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 03: Tyler Perry attends “Tyler Perry’s Straw” New York Screening at The Plaza on June 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) The Atlanta facility will use LED technology and real-time digital environments while keeping production crews central to the filmmaking process. A virtual production…
A South Carolina man who admitted to shooting at a Black man because of his race will now be behind bars for nearly a decade. Jonathan Andrew Felkel, 34, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison on Thursday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The case stems from a shooting that happened on…
Donald Trump should have represented dignity and honor at a military service. Instead, he became a distraction. The president, 80, participated in the dignified transfer of four fallen U.S. soldiers on July 22 at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. He wore his commander in chief uniform, a blue suit, a white-collared dress shirt,…
President Donald Trump has been hit with several setbacks over his planned Washington, D.C., beautification initiative. In particular, his attempt to modernize the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been a disaster so far. The renovation transformed the National Mall attraction into an embarrassment for the Trump administration. The Interior Department awarded multiple companies no-bid contracts…
Donald Trump showed up in Georgia Wednesday afternoon looking like the big man on campus. The president gave a speech at a suburban Atlanta high school about affordability and American economics ahead of November’s midterm election. A yawning bystander at Trump’s recent Georgia rally has reignited mockery of his rambling speeches. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via…
Getty Images The chart toppers and gospel hitmakers will be honored with awards highlighting not only their career achievements but also their influence as worship leaders and their role in spreading the power of Gospel music through music and ministry. The upcoming Stellar Gospel Music Awards will be a momentous one for Tasha Cobbs Leonard…
They’ll say it was a misunderstanding. A group of Black soccer fans enjoying a World Cup watch party at a swanky Atlanta bar reportedly caught a man from Argentina saying something derogatory — and outed him on the spot. “What did you say to me?” demanded a towering Black man — described by one person…
