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…
As the “Insecure” chapter of Rothwell’s life comes to a close, the writer, actor, producer and director is penning many more. In one of the last scenes of Insecure, Issa, Molly, Kelli and Tiffany are having a girls night-in when one of them gets a little emotional and they all come in for a hug….
A family is seeking justice for their loved one featured in a newly released police body camera video that showed Norfolk, Virginia, police tackling a Black bicyclist, Derrick Rountree, for riding around without a headlight nearly three years ago on Christmas Eve. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper obtained the nearly 30-minute police body camera video, which they…
Judge J. Michelle Childs and Nancy Gbana Abudu have been nominated to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for D.C. and 11th circuits. President Joe Biden on Thursday made two final nominations to the federal bench this year as he caps his first year in office with 40 judges confirmed, the most since Ronald Reagan was…
