“Some people say I am pushing an agenda, and I am. It’s called liberation,” said Lil Nas X Lil Nas X was honored at the Native Son Awards on Thursday, where he delivered a speech recalling how intimidating an experience coming out was for him, describing it as one of the “scariest moments” of his…
A state appeals court in Florida heard the case of a Black man who was jailed for 30 days in 2019 after writing a critical letter to the judge who dismissed a civil rights law suit he’d filed against the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. Derrick Jenkins, a 41-year-old married father, spent a month at Palm Beach…
“Unless someone in the car is shooting at police officers, you can get that car another day — but you cannot get that life back,” an expert said. Police departments across the U.S. — including in large cities such as New York and Denver — strictly limit shooting at moving vehicles because they consider the…
Dartavius Barnes is suing the city of Springfield and the Springfield Police Department for what he says is the desecration of his two year-old daughter’s cremated ashes during a warrantless search. A man is suing the city of Springfield, Illinois and the Springfield Police Department for what he says was the “desecration” of his child’s…
“What we’ve come to realize over the past decades is that police departments, with their oversized budgets and their outsized political power, are able to rise above reformist policies,” an organizer said. Monifa Bandele became a community organizer in the late 1990s, after New York City police fatally shot a young, unarmed Black immigrant named…
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones knows how to make a hit record just as well as he knows how to get the public’s attention with his off-the-wall anecdotes. Jones rarely does interviews now that he is 88 years old, but when he does it’s safe to say readers should expect a wild ride down Jones’…
Despite being seen at multiple outings together, Lamar Odom is declaring that he and Karlie Redd are “just friends.” On Friday, May 20, he made a guest appearance on “The Wendy Williams Show,” where the talk show host grilled him about what she called “a fake relationship” between the basketball star and the “Love and…
Last Friday, a federal jury decided that two brothers who spent more than three decades in prison for crimes they did not commit should receive $75 million from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Leon Brown, 63, and 57-year-old Henry McCollum, half brothers, were arrested in 1983 as teenagers, and spent 31 years in…
Tattoo boss Ceaser Emanuel’s parental woes have now taken a legal turn. TMZ reported that the “Black Ink Crew: New York” star recently filed a lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Crystal Torres after she accused the reality star of physically abusing their now-17-year-old daughter Cheyenne. The 41-year-old filed a suit for defamation against Crystal for publicly accusing him…
The trial will start on Nov. 1 Kyle Rittenhouse was present in court on Friday, and according to reports, he has retained a new attorney. Rittenhouse was charged with killing two people during protests for Jacob Blake, the man shot by police last August in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse’s first in-person court hearing was Friday, per NBC News….
