‘We can’t expect people to continue to emotionally and mentally keep moving forward when there hasn’t been any justice yet for Breonna Taylor,’ said Rep. Attica Scott Their numbers have dwindled since protesters first flooded Louisville’s streets after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her home a year ago, but their push for justice has…
‘My mom was a little bit of a free thinker,’ Obama says in Monday’s episode of Spotify’s ‘Renegades: Born in the USA’ Former President Barack Obama reveals in an upcoming podcast with rocker Bruce Springsteen that he chose a career of public service in part due to his mother, an acknowledgement that lands in the…
Six more alleged victims have come forward with accusations that celebrity couple T.I. and Tiny sexually assaulted them, a New York attorney said this week. Tyrone A. Blackburn is representing 11 of now nearly 40 accusers who said they were drugged, sexually assaulted, kidnapped, threatened, or falsely imprisoned by the Atlanta-based duo. “If I was…
The series will focus on a girl with sickle cell anemia and the competitive roller skating squad she leads. A pilot for Saturdays, a series produced by 16-year-old Black-ish talent Marsai Martin, has been ordered at Disney Channel. Saturdays comes from the mind of Norman Vance Jr., who wrote the popular 2005 film Roll Bounce…
A Black Arizona couple is not only breathing easier, but happy to be breathing after a white man reportedly tried to pull a gun on them during a business meeting. Solomon Odubhao and Brittney Myers told KNXV-TV ABC15 they were meeting with Tom Toot, the life partner of the owner of Chef’s Shared Kitchen in…
The measure was filed months after Louisville, the state’s largest city, became the site of huge protests in the wake of the police killing of Breonna Taylor It could become a crime to taunt a police officer in Kentucky, under a bill that passed the state Senate on Thursday. The measure was filed months after…
It was throwback Thursday, and Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris made the cutest video that fit the theme of the day perfectly. Willow was the first to make an appearance in the video. She started dancing, and the words “My Mom Back In The Day” popped up over her head. Soon afterward,…
Three of the jurors seated are white, one is multiracial, one is Hispanic and one is Black A man who said he has a “very negative” impression of Derek Chauvin nevertheless became the sixth juror selected for the former Minneapolis police officer’s trial in George Floyd’s death. The man, who told attorneys he could set that…
The former New York Knick said he was stopped by security in the building where his jersey hangs. New York Knicks legend Patrick Ewing said he was treated disrespectfully at Madison Square Garden on Thursday. Ewing, the ex-NBA superstar who serves as head coach of the Georgetown University Hoyas basketball team, said he was stopped…
“This is by no means the end of our work to address the many structural issues of racism reflected in this painful incident.” The Georgetown University Law School professor who commented that her lowest-performing students are Black on a Zoom call has been fired. Dean Bill Treanor issued a statement that he called “A Message to the…
