Chicago is set to pay $2.9 million to a Black woman who was handcuffed by police during a botched 2019 police raid. The City Council’s Finance Committee unanimously approved the settlement on Monday, Dec. 13, for Anjanette Young, a social worker from the West Side. “The city has never disputed Ms. Young suffered an indignity”…
The college football world is calling it the “biggest flip in history.” Cornerback Travis Hunter, 2022′s No. 2 overall college football recruit, flipped his commitment from Florida State to HBCU Jackson State University on national signing day Wednesday. Hunter had been committed to Florida State since March 2020. He is the “first five-star high school…
The brawl happened during the Legendz of the Streetz tour in October. A fight broke out on stage during a Boosie Badazz performance in Atlanta in October. Now, the rapper faces a lawsuit after promoters accuse him of orchestrating the altercation, as reported by The Jasmine Brand. Boosie was on the Legendz of the Streetz…
Antonio Brown has always skirted the line of what is acceptable in the NFL. He entered the Terrell Owens lane of the player you love to hate; he is one of the few sports entertainment professionals that gets paid for bad behavior. Now that bad behavior might have run its course with the NFL and team…
Comedian Trevor Noah sued his doctor and the hospital that he works out of for negligence. The Comedy Central staple contends in a 15-page summons and complaint filing that the orthopedic surgeon was “careless.” Law and Crime reports that “The Daily Show” host became a patient of Dr. Riley J. Williams III at the Hospital…
OPINION: If Simpson, who was discharged two months early from parole, can rekindle that emotional solidarity Black Americans felt when he was acquitted and pair it with political solidarity, perhaps he’ll be welcomed back into the fold. O.J. Simpson (Photo by Jason Bean-Pool/Getty Images) “I’m a free manI’m a free man and talking ‘bout it.”—…
“American taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay terrorist organizations, organizations that the maker of this bill is affiliated with,” Rep. Scott Perry said of Omar During a debate on a bill to combat Islamaphobia internationally, Rep. Scott Perry alleged that Rep. Ilhan Omar— the bill’s author– is antisemitic and affiliated with terrorist groups. The House…
OUI the People resists traditional beauty standards — one razor at a time. Unhealthy and unrealistic health and beauty standards are forced on consumers from every angle. Television, social media, advertisements at transportation hubs and even subliminal messages in our entertainment do a good job of reminding us all that we’re lacking something special. We’d…
“I was scheduled to work this week, but that has been put on hold,” Kyanna Parsons-Perez told theGrio. Kyanna Parsons-Perez isn’t sure what comes next for her and her four children now that a tornado has destroyed the Mayfield, Kentucky candle factory where she worked, leaving eight of her coworkers dead and those who survived…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Author, professor and profound feminist Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, died on Wednesday at the age of 69. Madame Noire reported that hooks’ cause of death was not immediately announced. bell hooks became a giant in the novel industry for her compelling stories surrounding…
