‘I believe it should have been more, but I feel good,’ Flowers remarked Curtis Flowers has been awarded $500,000 from the state of Mississippi after being wrongfully imprisoned for more than 20 years. Read More: Mississippi has gone 2 weeks without safe drinking water since storm theGrio reported charges against Flowers were dropped in September…
‘I look forward to returning to work to continue to make a difference in racial injustices,’ said Rev. Jackson. Rev. Jesse Jackson has healed and says he’s ready to get back to work. The civil rights icon was released from the Northwestern-affiliated Shirley Ryan AbilityLab after a three-week stay. According to Chicago Suntimes, he was initially…
Bryant is featured in People magazine’s ‘Women Changing the World’ issue Vanessa Bryant, on the latest cover of PEOPLE Magazine, says that her pain is still “unimaginable” after the loss of her husband Kobe Bryant and her daughter Gianna Bryant, but that they still “motivate her.” It’s been over a year since Kobe Bryant and…
Last year, fans of the popular ’90s sitcom “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” were elated to discover that Will Smith and his former co-star Janet Hubert had hashed out their differences after following her nearly three-decade-long dispute with him. The pair reunited during a reunion special that debuted on HBO Max in mid-November 2020, where they shared an…
Rapper Bun B had some harsh words for Texas’ governor recently after the Lone Star State’s top government official lifted mask mandates and all coronavirus restrictions on businesses even as the pandemic continues to rage. The Houston native took to his Instagram account on Tuesday, March 2, where he uploaded a news article’s screenshot announcing the controversial…
A white Dutch author has stepped down from translating U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s work into the Dutch language after a supposed “uproar” the job didn’t go to a Black person. However, not everyone is upset about it. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, 29, a white writer that made history in 2020 as the youngest person…
Under Mastronardi’s leadership, the Civilian Complaint Review Board logged 1,364 complaints of police misconduct Change is coming to Brooklyn’s 75 Precinct. Deputy Inspector John Mastronardi will no longer hold the position by the end of the month, as reported on Tuesday by The New York Post. “The department is moving him because of some retirements,” a police source told…
The changes came with Republicans, who may unanimously oppose the legislation, lashing the bill as an overpriced Democratic wish list President Joe Biden and Democrats agreed Wednesday to tighten the upper-income limits at which people could qualify for stimulus checks, a Democratic official said, a major concession to moderates as party leaders prepared to move…
Jordan stars in the action thriller of Tom Clancy’s 1993 novel of the same name Michael B. Jordan has always sizzled on screen but in the new trailer which has just been released for his upcoming film Without Remorse, he is in full action hero mode. According to IndieWire, the action thriller is an adaptation…
The actress took to her Instagram stories to speak out against an educational Refinery29 post Zoe Saldana is being called out for her reported comments surrounding an educational Instagram post on Afro-Dominicans and Dominican Independence Day. Refinery29’s Somos is seeking to “elevate, educate, and inspire a new generation of change-makers committed to LatinX visibility.” Through…
