Jacob Blake was shot by Officer Rusten Sheskey last August and the D.A. said self defense could be argued A Wisconsin prosecutor announced Tuesday that he will not file criminal charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in the back in Kenosha last summer, leaving him paralyzed and setting off sometimes…
Calls are growing to charge the ‘SoHo Karen’ in assault of teenager Keyon Harrold, Jr. Miya Ponsetto is still free after she was captured on video attacking a 14-year-old Black teenager – but she won’t be for long if Ben Crump has anything to do with it. During the Dec. 26th incident which has since…
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the extreme-right group Proud Boys, has been arrested for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was stolen from a historic Black church during protests in Washington, D.C., last month. The arrest happened on Monday, Jan. 4, when Tarrio, 36, arrived in the capital ahead of the scheduled rally to protest…
Missy Elliott is debunking a longtime misconception about singer Tweet’s 2002 hit single “Oops (Oh My).” With lyrics like “Oops, there goes my skirt dropping to my feet, oh my” and “Oooh, some kind of touch caressing my face, oh my,” it’s not hard to imagine why listeners would’ve thought that “Oops” was about self-pleasure. Missy…
Weeks after Washington D.C. Black Lives Matter activists called out city leadership over their failure to stop the Proud Boys from rallying near the White House, the National Guard will be called in to support city police in ensuring “safety” as the white supremacist group intends on protesting against the election results on Wednesday. The…
She’s used the ad before, but her camp reportedly spent 10 times more boosting the darker-Warnock version. Appointed Republican Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler ran a Facebook ad last week which artificially darkened the skin of Rev. Raphael Warnock, her Democratic challenger in today’s highly-anticipated runoff election. According to reports, Loeffler has used the same two…
Taraji P. Henson is kicking off her new year with a new look. On Saturday, Jan. 2, she uploaded three photos to showcase her beautiful hairstyle. Her hair appears to have been put in purple box braids and styled in a gorgeous curly updo. Continuing with the theme, she finished her look off with purple…
Black Twitter is not here for ESPN’s “subtle racism” when it comes to how they cover Black and white coaches. Recently, on its Twitter account for “SportsCenter,” the network tweeted NFL teams had “parted ways” with head coaches Adam Gase of the New York Jets and Doug Marrone of the Jacksonville Jaguars but when it…
Eric Jerome Dickey, the prolific Black author who helped bring the innermost workings of Black love, relationships and Black contemporary life to the mainstream, has reportedly died after battling a longtime illness. He was 59-years-old. Dickey’s death was initially shared by his cousin named La Verne Madison Fuller and was later confirmed by his publicist….
Fans were devastated to learn of the death of the best selling author of ‘Sister, Sister’, and ‘Before We Were Wicked’ New York Times best-selling author Eric Jerome Dickey who penned such classics as “Sister, Sister” “Before We Were Wicked” and “Friends and Lovers” about Black life, revolutionizing storytelling in the contemporary fiction genre, has…
