Source: Robert Gauthier / Getty At this point, it almost seems reasonable to assume that every single police department in America is rife with police officers who openly discuss their racist contempt for various ethnic groups when they don’t realize they’re being recorded or think their bigoted text exchanges won’t come to light. But even…
Wendy Williams attends the 2019 NYWIFT Muse Awards at the New York Hilton Midtown on December 10, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Lars Niki/Getty Images for New York Women in Film & Television) Wendy Williams was taken to a hospital by NYPD amid murmurs of an upcoming appearance on ‘The View.’ Wendy Williams…
Tyra Banks, the former host of “America’s Next Top Model,” turned heads with a striking new look at the Balenciaga Fall/Winter 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week at Les Invalides. Fans were quick to react to the supermodel’s bold style choice, noting that the latest trend she embraced left her nearly unrecognizable as she appeared…
UFC bantamweight Chito Vera couldn’t have played it cooler. Too cool, perhaps. A viral video surfaced on Friday showing Vera running off a man in a mask and hoodie not with his fists, but a large shotgun conveniently within his reach after he first notices the man, armed with a knife, walking up his driveway in broad…
Source: TIMOTHY A. CLARY / Getty An activist who was a key organizer of the pro-Palestinian student protest movement at Columbia University was arrested by ICE over the weekend. The effort to detain and deport student activists by President Donald Trump took a new turn as federal authorities arrested an activist who helped organize pro-Palestinian student…
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 30: (L-R) Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean perform onstage during the 2024 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Hill and her Fugees bandmate, Wyclef Jean, along with Stevie Wonder and others paid tribute to Flack during her service in…
Several Los Angeles police officers are at the center of a complaint alleging they made racist, sexist, and homophobic comments about their colleagues, potential recruits, and L.A. citizens. According to the L.A. Times, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department secretly recorded dozens of conversations in the department’s recruitment office between March and…
Source: Berryspun / Getty After spending more than two decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, an Evanston, Ill. man is pursuing justice against the police who he says framed him of the crime and beat him into making a false confession. Frank Drew was convicted of a murder in 1998, and served…
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Eric Scott Turner testifies during his Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Scott Turner has announced the…
Last November, Jennifer Piggott pulled the lever for Donald Trump a third time. But the church-going conservative, the heart of the president’s base, says she will never do it again. Piggott was one of 125 people recently fired from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Services in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Reuters reports. Nearly 4 percent…
