A Texas Army veteran who was convicted of murdering a Black man in a racially motivated shooting in 2021 was sentenced last week to 40 years in prison but avoided a life term from the judge, which could set him free after serving half the time. Christopher Lee Powell, 36, of Killeen, was found guilty…
Churchgoers about to enter Rev. Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church for its ministry’s Spanish-language service at 2 p.m. on Feb. 11 were met with terror and fear instead of praise and worship after a woman opened fire inside the Texas church, leading to an exchange of gunfire with police on the scene that left her dead…
The United States Justice Department says it has proposed updated rules for its Office for Victims of Crime, which oversees programs and grants aimed at helping violent crime victims, with the goal of increasing victims’ access to compensation. The federal guidelines overhaul could help address issues with racial disparities and lower the number of subjective…
A general view of Morehouse College on January 22, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Video footage recorded at a renowned historically Black college in Atlanta purports to show a student removing an Israel flag that was hanging in a campus chapel before being publicly reprimanded by a professor for the…
A federal appellate court in New York ruled last year that the U.S. government must defend its decision to keep thousands of dollars seized from a Rochester, New York, woman in 2020 as part of a drug investigation involving her former boyfriend, and now the agency that had been keeping her money for more than…
Imagine a major company that generates nearly $30 million a year in annual revenue scoping out your viral video and lifting your idea for a commercial to air during one of the biggest sporting events, only behind events like the World Cup and the Olympics, without consulting you. That is exactly what TikTok creator Sharon…
A popular Lowcountry seafood restaurant owned by a prominent Black chef in Asheville, North Carolina, was targeted in an apparent racist attack when hooligans bum-rushed the business at closing time, cut the power and defaced the entrance before fleeing. No physical violence was reported in the Feb. 3 incident at the Good Hot Fish, but…
A video board displays a logo for Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium on February 1, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Famous in part for its commercials, the Super Bowl’s annual telecast didn’t fail to produce any number of conversation-generating ads that ran throughout the NFL’s championship game on…
Source: SOPA Images / Getty It’s been nearly a year since Hulu first announced that it would be releasing a documentary titled Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told, which is pretty self-explanatory if you ask us. However, 2023 came and went with nothing more than the massive amount of social media chatter it created. To…
Former President Donald Trump spent about $50 million from Republican donors on legal bills in 2023 as he faced a panoply of criminal and civil charges, according to a report by The New York Times. Thus far in the 2024 primary, Trump’s Save America PAC, has spent about as much money on legal bills as…
