Emery Mizell, a 17-year-old student at New York’s Metropolitan Soundview High School, had been looking forward to prom and high school graduation. All that changed when a dispute with another teenage girl ended with Emery being stabbed to death after walking home from school in the Bronx on May 2. “I’m devastated, I’m numb, I’m…
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis listens during the final arguments in her disqualification hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: ALEX SLITZ / Getty While Donald Trump is currently on trial in New York for allegedly paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and falsifying…
Oscar award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has issued a response to allegations linking him to a group of people implicated in a civil lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs. The lawsuit, filed by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, alleges sexual harassment and assault by the Bad Boy founder and listed many celebrities, including Prince Harry, Yung Miami,…
Source: South_agency / Getty Damn right they do. In fact, with Mother’s Day just around the corner, I can’t help thinking about how the women I love and respect are walking around every single day with real issues on their minds and impacting their lives. From education to healthcare to everything in between, these issues…
A Black college-bound Louisiana teen who witnessed the violent arrest of his mother by police officers in 2020 will receive $185,000 in damages if a recent verdict in his civil rights lawsuit stands. On May 1, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana found that a deputy from the…
Comedian Gary Owen has been called out for continuing to speak about his ex-wife, Kenya Duke and their three children, who have chosen not to engage with him. Over the past week, he shared on his “Get Some” YouTube show, that he recently saw Duke and pre-warned her about his appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s “Club…
Source: General / Radio One Almost three years after the tragic series of events at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival left 10 attendees dead, Live Nation has settled nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits related to the catastrophe. Terms of the settlements are confidential. What now remains is a lawsuit filed by the family of…
Queens rapper 50 Cent took to social media to slam the governor of his home state for saying young Black youth in an adjacent borough did not know what a computer is. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made the erroneous and what some believe is racially charged statement on Monday, May 6, at the Milken Institute…
A Missouri man has been charged with his wife’s murder after confessing that he strangled her at a hospital because he could no longer afford her medical bills. Police charged 76-year-old Ronnie Wiggs with second-degree murder in the death of his 72-year-old wife, Ellen Wiggs. Wiggs’ wife was admitted to the Centerpoint Medical Center in…
Source: Afro Newspaper/Gado / Getty The late great Civil Rights leader and journalist Daisy Bates was honored with a statue unveiled Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol. According to Reuters, the bronze statue depicts Bates with a newspaper in one hand and a notebook pen in the other, signifying her legacy as a respected media and…
