During recent oral arguments, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised questions about the legal proceedings against the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, leading to backlash against the conservative justice, who is accused of downplaying the severity of the insurrection that has led to hundreds of rioters facing prosecution. According to a CNN report, the conservative…

Several students at a Memphis high school have faced discipline for their part in a fight that cellphone video shows broke out between a teacher and a student. That viral video shows a fight between a teacher in a purple shirt and a student in a wife beater at Trezevant High School on Tuesday. The…

An Akron, Ohio, teen is “traumatized” after getting shot by a police officer while holding a fake gun.  Tavion Koonce-Williams’ family likened the incident to the death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed in 2017 by a white police officer who confronted the boy as he sat in a park gazebo with a…

Grammy winner Ne-Yo wants to explore relationships on his own terms — that is, multiple relationships all at once. Fresh off a contentious divorce from “Bold & Bougie” star Crystal Renay, the singer is experimenting with being in a “throuple” for the first time and he believes polygamy — the practice of having more than…

Source: F. Carter Smith / Getty Reprieve, a non-profit organization advocating against the death penalty, shed light on a troubling aspect of the controversial form of capital punishment in a new report.  According to the organization’s latest study, Black individuals have experienced botched lethal injection executions at an alarming rate compared to their white counterparts,…

The wife and mother of Greg and Travis McMichael has launched a website countering “media-driven narratives” about her convicted family members and presenting her account of what happened the day Ahmaud Arbery was killed. The McMichaels are serving life sentences in state prisons for Arbery’s murder on Feb. 23, 2020. Cellphone video shows the father-son…

Source: SeventyFour / Getty Two years ago, 37-year-old Tremar Harris was a pre-trial detainee in solitary confinement at the Appling County jail in Brunswick, Georgia. Now, Harris has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against three correctional officers, one of whom can be seen in surveillance video wrapping a chain around his neck…

Acting veteran Lela Rochon is strutting her way into her seventh decade after celebrating her 60th birthday earlier this week. The beloved actress shared a recent video of dancing in leather to Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” hit “Texas Hold ‘Em,” and fans are gushing over how good she still looks at age 60. Folks online have…

Source: Sean Pavone / Getty “It never ends,” began Nsombi Lambright-Haynes during an exclusive discussion with NewsOne about Mississippi’s Goon Squad members, Brett McAlpin, who filed a notice of appeal this week despite having plead guilty to torturing two Black men, his attorney Aafram Sellers reported. Lambright-Haynes is the executive director of Mississippi OneVoice, a…