Keenan Scott II was pressed into service when pandemic shortages meant the show might not go on Keenan Scott II made his Broadway acting debut this week in Thoughts of a Colored Man, which is a remarkable milestone. It’s even more remarkable when you consider he also wrote it. The actor-turned-playwright was pressed into acting…
OPINION: Given that juries often side with police, it was imperative the prosecution presented evidence that demonstrated Potter acted unreasonably and recklessly in causing Daunte Wright’s death. Damik Wright (C), Emajay Driver (R) and Dallas Bryant (2nd R), brothers of Daunte Wright wait for the verdict in Kim Potter’s trial over the death of Daunte…
How it’s going vs. how it started for Kim Potter. | Source: Hennepin County Sheriff and Court TV screenshot Call it a tale of two biddies. Kim Potter‘s new smiling mugshot following her convictions on Thursday for the first- and second-degree manslaughter killing of Daunte Wright provided even more reason to doubt the sincerity of…
An Oklahoma sixth grader has been recognized by Muskogee County officials as an honorary member of their police force after showing an extraordinary degree of bravery and heroism. The 11-year-old saved his classmate and a woman in a burning building on the same day. According to Enid News & Eagle, Thursday, Dec. 9, was a busy…
The teen was in a clothing store dressing room Thursday when officers fired on an assault suspect and a bullet went through the wall and struck the girl, authorities said. Los Angeles police fatally shot a 14-year-old girl who was in a clothing store dressing room Thursday when officers fired on an assault suspect and…
“He might be the type of person that never really settles with somebody,” the comic-actress said of her ex-boyfriend. Tiffany Haddish is speaking out about her breakup with rapper-actor Common, saying she was “disappointed” in what he said about them calling it quits. “He might be the type of person that never really settles with…
The Nov. 29 ban barred nearly all non-U.S. citizens who had recently been in South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The U.S. will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries that it imposed to try to blunt the spread of the COVID omicron variant, the White House announced Friday. The…
Hip-hop mogul and current resident of San Diego’s RJ Donovan Correctional Facility Suge Knight reportedly has just made a deal to have his life story told by producer Steve Whitney and his company TSW Films. Now the man behind the 2005 remake of “The Amityville Horror” film is enlisting Nick Cassavetes and Anthony Thorne to…
OPINION: If you love a great story, the film inspired by a viral 148-tweet thread is an irresistible yarn. Riley Keough and Taylour Paige in “Zola.” (Anna Kooris/A24 Films) You wanna hear a story about my favorite movie of the year? It’s short and there ain’t much suspense in it, but still, when I saw…
James Whitfield—the man who was the first Black principal at Colleyville Heritage High School in Texas, but was placed on administrative leave and later forced to resign because a white fragility-infused parent claimed, without evidence, that he was promoting “conspiracy theory of systemic racism” via critical race theory—is not done fighting to preserve non-whitewashed education…
