Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty UPDATED: November 9th, 2021 2:45PM Fred Hampton, the leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers who was assassinated in a home by Chicago police 51 years ago, was the living personification of the word “revolutionary” by any standard. He was only 21 years old when he was killed…
Former Glynn County Police Officer Ricky Minshew — now a paper mill worker — says Arbery “appeared to be deceased” when he arrived. Former Glynn County Police Officer Ricky Minshew was the first to arrive at the scene when Ahmaud Arbery was shot in late February 2020. On Monday, during some of the earliest testimony…
A new study finds that Latinos view skin tone as having an impact on their social mobility in the United States. The study released by Pew Research Center underscores the not-often highlighted race related conversations among a non-Black ethnic group. Pew said the focus of the study was to determine in what way Latinos experience…
William ‘Roddie’ Bryan Jr., who filmed father and son Greg and Travis McMichael pursuing Arbery, never told the young man he was “under arrest.” A new report out of the trial of the three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery notes that one of the men involved never told the responding officer that he and…
It’s over for Stevie J and Faith Evans‘ marriage. It has been reported that the “Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta” star, born Steven Aaron Jordan, filed for divorce from Evans after just three years of marriage. According to TMZ, divorce documents were filed by Jordan on Monday, Nov. 8, at the Los Angeles County Superior…
The Ahmaud Arbery murder trail is officially underway following an extended and controversial juror selection procedure. After an 11-day process, the defense selected a jury with 11 white members and one Black member. Many believe that a majority-white panel may influence the fate of Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and a neighbor William “Roddie”…
Ye invited the Toronto rapper to perform at a benefit concert for Larry Hoover in Los Angeles. Kanye West is ready to squash his beef with Drake and he’s hoping the rapper will accept his invitation to perform on stage with him for a benefit concert in Los Angeles. Music executive J. Prince shared a…
Source: twitter / @TheTNHoller Sunday service was both frightening and thrilling for a congregation at a Nashville, Tennessee, church after a man stood in front of the pulpit, not to preach the good word, but to brandish a gun at parishioners. Thankfully, this incident didn’t end in senseless tragedy and mass murder, but instead, it…
Dr. Andia Augustin-Billy made history on Nov. 4, 2021, when she became the first Black professor to earn tenure at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. “Centenary and other predominantly white institutions need to reckon with their statements of diversity,” Augustin-Billy said. Dr. Augustin-Billy teaches French and Francophone studies at the small liberal arts college, which…
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, one Houston injury attorney filed seven lawsuits against Scott on Tuesday morning. The inevitable bevy of lawsuits expected to face rapper Travis Scott in the wake of the tragedy at his recent Astroworld Festival has reached double digits. According to court documents obtained by TMZ, one Houston injury…
