Amy Cooper notoriously called police and made false claims against Central Park bird watcher Christian Cooper, a Black man. In an Instagram post this weekend, Tina Knowles-Lawson questioned if actor Jussie Smollett would receive “the same compassion” shown to Amy Cooper, who notoriously called police and made false claims against Black Central Park bird watcher…
Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump said he plans to move forward with a lawsuit against Louisiana’s agency overseeing child welfare over years-old allegations that Black children were sexually abused while in the state’s custody. Crump, who represents a woman claiming that she and her sibling were raped by “wealthy white men” when they…
“I’m sitting in here doing life plus 25 for a crime that was never committed for something I’ve never done, and I’m in my own house trying to protect myself,” Prentice Ponds II, 48, laments from an Oklahoma state prison. Ponds is serving a life prison sentence after being convicted of robbery and insurance fraud…
It turns out that there is a world where an incident involving a violent and overzealous school resource officer (SRO) body-slamming, manhandling and/or brutally assaulting a student results in immediate action that doesn’t include putting a victim on trial for their own attack—it’s the world where the officer is Black and the child is, well,…
Bow Wow unwittingly found himself entangled in 50 Cent and Madonna’s social media disagreement after one of his double-taps sent the “In Da Club” rapper the wrong message. The 34-year-old rapper, born Shad Moss, liked a post made by The Shade Room that shared Madonna’s second response to 50 Cent after he poked fun at…
Trevian Kutti, a publicist who used to work for West, is being disavowed by the rapper-producer’s current camp. A publicist who formerly worked for Kanye West is being disavowed by the superstar rapper-producer’s camp. A spokesperson told Reuters that Trevian Kutti was “not associated” with West when she visited an election worker in Georgia demanding…
An aerial view of debris and structural damage is seen at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory as search and rescue operations are underway after a tornado hit Mayfield, Kentucky, on December 12, 2021. | Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty Throughout the chaos of the deadly tornado that devastated a wide swath of Kentucky and…
Michael Strahan has completed his first space mission and was so amazed by what he experienced that he’d do it all over again. The former NFL player and “Good Morning America” co-host took a quick trip to space on Dec. 11 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The flight, which lasted 10 minutes and 13…
Joe Morrow, a Minnesota man, was the victim of what many call “banking while Black” after being put in handcuffs after attempting to cash his paycheck inside a U.S. Bank branch in suburban Minneapolis last October. Morrow told KSTP-TV reporters that despite having an account with the bank, employees at a branch in Columbia Heights,…
Kanye West’s publicist Trevian Kutti was caught on tape seemingly bullying a temporary 2020 Georgia election worker into confessing to bogus ballot tampering claims boosted by former President Donald Trump. According to police body camera footage obtained by Reuters, on Jan. 4, two days before now-President Joe Biden’s election victory was certified, Kuttie, a Black woman, appeared…
