“Thinking the firearm was free of live rounds, Ms. Holt said she went to pass the firearm over to her sister, Ms. Ponder (who was sitting behind the driver), but accidentally shot her,” Miami Beach police said in a report. An Atlanta woman will likely be charged with manslaughter after accidentally shooting her teenage sister….
In her acting career, Taraji P. Henson is known to play some beloved and funny characters in many of her films and TV shows. One thing many of her roles have in common is their fierce persona. Now Henson will get to bring that same energy into a different kind of role. It was announced…
An April report published by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project found that two property companies owned by major private equity firm Pretium Partners are more likely to evict renters in majority Black communities than communities that are primarily white. According to the report “PANDEMIC EVICTOR: Don Mullen’s Pretium Partners Files to Evict Black Renters, Collects…
OPINION: Black voters who elected Democrats to do something deserve better, and White moderate Dems seeking bipartisanship with white nationalists are a threat to our health and safety. U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) stand in the way of justice, freedom and democracy, and pose a threat to the lives of Black…
Shanetta Wilson contracted it six months into her pregnancy and fell into a coma. Her newborn son died days after his birth last month. While many Americans prepare for the inevitable reopening of the country and the eventual end of the coronavirus pandemic, one family in Washington, D.C. wants to remind people that many are…
A school official in Boston has stepped down from her position on a powerful committee after text messages about “white racists” were made public more than a year after they were sent. The text messages were exchanged during a committee meeting and were made in reference to white parents of students in the West Roxbury…
The Senate report is the first — and could be the last — bipartisan review of how hundreds of Trump supporters were able to violently push past security lines and break into the Capitol A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has uncovered broad government, military and law enforcement missteps surrounding the…
“Somebody pinch me!!!!” Taylor wrote on Instagram. “Maxim Hot 100 to be named the ‘Sexiest Woman alive’ by literally living in the skin I’m in.” Singer and actress Teyana Taylor was dubbed the “Sexiest Woman Alive” by Maxim this weekend, the first Black woman to be so named. “A graceful choreographer-dancer, actor-director and top ten…
The video shows a man slapping Macron in the face and his bodyguards pushing the man away French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped Tuesday in the face by a man during a visit to a small town in southeast France. Macron’s office confirmed a video that is widely circulating online. The French president can be…
A Spokane, Washington, mother is furious after she claims her twin daughters were asked to clean cotton for a classroom assignment. When she took the issue to the school, she says their suggestion was to remove the girls from the classroom. Now the mother wants the school administrator removed from the school, KXLY reported. Black…
