The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday, Feb. 1, that a former Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer has been indicted on multiple charges after he allegedly abused a 63-year-old Black man in Boston last April, then filed a misleading report about the incident. Ex-MBTA Officer Nicholas Morrissey, 41, was indicted on a civil rights…
EXCLUSIVE: In the beginning days of the Biden administration, officials are creating a task force to reunify families The southern border is the focus of another presidential administration. During the Trump administration’s four years, the efforts to prevent the browning of America focused on the southern border from a wall that Mexico was allegedly going to…
The documentary explores the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, known as ‘the Black Woodstock’ Questlove’s directorial debut, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), won big at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival this week. The documentary earned the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary category. Summer…
The memoir has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its November 2018 Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir, “Becoming,” will soon be released in both a young readers and a paperback edition. “Becoming” has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its November 2018 release, and Netflix further explored it in a 2020 documentary….
The project will finally get underway in Chicago four years after delays Construction on former president Barack Obama’s state-of-the-art presidential center in the South Side of Chicago will break ground this year. Obama announced on social media Wednesday that the project will finally get underway four years after delays, Chicago Tribune reports. “I’m proud to…
Adam Coy has been charged with one count of murder, one count of felonious assault and two counts of dereliction duty Less than two months after former Columbus police officer Adam Coy was fired for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man, he was indicted Wednesday on murder charges. Coy, who is white, was “relieved of duty”…
‘No Joke: Chris Rock and Gayle King’ features exclusive extended footage from the comedian’s latest Netflix special. BET and CBS News teamed up to create a new, exclusive special with comedian Chris Rock titled No Joke: Chris Rock and Gayle King. Read More: Gayle King reveals she turned down ‘opportunity’ to take over Oprah’s show According to…
‘Passing’ premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival In 2018, Rebecca Hall made headlines announcing her directorial debut of Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal novella of the same name. Passing has been widely revered in the Black community since its 1929 publication, and needless to say, people had some criticism about what…
The former NBA star and the pop star have agreed to square up in June in Atlantic City Lamar Odom and Aaron Carter will meet in the boxing ring. The former NBA star and the former Disney star and recording artist have agreed to battle it out in the ring in June. Both men have already…
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty A proposal to rename the main airport in Las Vegas for one of Nevada’s longest-serving Senators could get tricky if the current racial reckoning happening across the country has anything to do with it. State officials have called to rename McCarran International Airport after former Sen. Harry Reid, who served…
