A Black man who was wrongfully convicted for more than four decades received a multi-million settlement from officials in Concord, North Carolina. The city awarded Ronnie Long $22 million, and he received $3 million from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation for spending just over 44 years behind bars. Long was convicted in 1976…
A new lawsuit claims that the mayor of Spotswood, New Jersey, tried to have a Black man removed from a municipal building because of his race. Mayor Jackie Palmer reportedly ordered officers from the Spotswood Police Department to remove the man on April 22, 2022. The lawsuit was filed on Jan. 15 in the Superior…
Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph knows a thing or two about being a “diva.” Outside of her nonprofit organization being named The D.I.V.A . Foundation, she has played a diva on big and small screens and got her start on Broadway in 1981 as Deena Jones from the Tony Award-winning musical “Dreamgirls.” While the production received…
New court documents revealed a lengthy collection of racist text messages showing a former San Jose officer candidly using the N-word and condemning a civil rights lawsuit brought against him by a Black man he shot last year. Former officer Mark McNamara was sued for shooting college football player K’Aun Green last March after Green…
Corey Holcomb is receiving backlash after calling her the B-word on the latest episode of his YouTube podcast, “The Corey Holcomb 5150 Show.” Clips of the comedian-turned-podcaster hit the internet after the show went live on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and people are saying that “some things you can’t take back.” Corey Holcomb gets backlash for…
The New York City Council is facing off against Mayor Eric Adams, who wants to scrap a law that would require NYPD officers to document all encounters they have with the public. The tension between Mayor Adams and the city council was on full display on Tuesday when the mayor’s deputy chief of staff abruptly…
While many fans were captivated by the on-and-off screen romance between Jamie Foxx and Garcelle Beauvais during the production of the popular ’90s sitcom “The Jamie Foxx Show,” there’s another couple that emerged from the series that might have flown under the radar: Christopher B. and Susan Wood Duncan. Christopher played opposite Foxx’s lead, Jamie…
Source: PA Images Archive / Getty In the world of sports, certain stereotypes have persisted over time and have perpetuated misconceptions about the abilities of different racial and ethnic groups. One stereotype is the belief that Black people are inherently more athletic than others, but the taboo simply isn’t true and has done more harm…
A New York man is slamming officers from the White Plains Police Department for handcuffing his teenage daughter when she reached out to them for help during a mental health crisis. Clifton Moody’s daughter called the police to her building last Saturday, Jan. 20, while having a panic attack, WABC reported. During a panic attack,…
Sofía Vergara is on a press run to promote her lead role in the new Netflix series “Griselda,” and the Colombian actress got into a seemingly friendly exchange with Kelly Clarkson during an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Jan. 25. “Griselda” is about Griselda Blanco, a Colombian woman known as “The Cocaine Godmother”…