Nine women and two men testified during the trial, alleging the disgraced singer sexually abused them. R. Kelly’s lawyer compared him to civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the closing argument of the singer’s federal racketeering trial in Brooklyn. Attorney Deveraux Cannick noted on Thursday that prosecutors have a responsibility to…
Washington stars alongside Frances McDormand in the Shakespearean tragedy. Denzel Washington is tackling the William Shakespeare classic of Macbeth. Apple and A24 released a trailer for The Tragedy of Macbeth. The film will be released in theaters on Christmas Day and become available for purchase on streaming via Apple TV Plus on Jan.14, 2022. Joel…
Baltimore artist Amy Sherald’s larger-than-life painting of slain emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor now has a new home. Following a joint acquisition in March by the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, museum-goers will now be able to view the portrait of…
OPINION: As a Haitian-Cuban woman, Blue Telusma writes that it’s important to raise awareness in Haiti and all those in the diaspora During the last election cycle, whenever I would talk to people about why we needed to band together against Donald Trump, there would always be those people who quoted the infamous line that…
Police say the shooter is also dead in the nation’s latest mass shooting at the Memphis area store A shooter attacked a grocery store in an upscale Tennessee suburb on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding 14 others before the shooter was subsequently found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store,…
The celebration will take place at The Potter’s House in Dallas later this month After 45 years in ministry, famed Bishop T.D. Jakes is being honored at a special worship service later this month. Jakes has had an incredibly impressive career. The senior pastor of The Potter’s House in Dallas, Business Insider reports that Bishop Jakes has, “blazed the trail in…
Darren Lee Osborne says he thought his son was involved in a drug deal gone bad Some fathers help their sons learn how to tie a tie, to throw a ball, or how to shave. Darren Lee Osborne, 56, of St. Paul, Minnesota, helped his son, Antoine Suggs, 38, hide four bodies, according to police…
The father worked a full day’s work, believing he dropped his twins off at daycare, according to police South Carolina investigators have decided not to file charges against the father of 20-month-old twin boys, Brycen and Brayden McDaniel, whom he accidentally left inside of an overheated car. PEOPLE Magazine reports that the toddler twins were…
A California man finally regained his freedom after spending a little over two decades in jail for a double homicide that he and the Loyola Project for the Innocent at Loyola Marymount University say he did not commit, citing new evidence. On Sept. 11, 2000, then 20-year-old Dwight Jones was found guilty for a 1999…
“Amen” alum, former Broadway star and voiceover actress Roz Ryan revealed more about her past as a Detroit nightclub singer, how she made her mark coast to coast, and how she has learned to embrace the next phase of her career and her life during the pandemic. Roz Ryan may have entered into many homes…
