Imagine you’re celebrating your favorite NFL team making it to the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years, only for it to be ruined by police officers arresting you in the most brutal way possible. That’s what happened to Daysheion Renee Ponds. According […]
Grieving families in Florida were upset to learn that a local funeral director mishandled their loved ones’ ashes. Elliott Maurice Graham, a 49-year-old overseeing Marion Graham Mortuaries, was arrested and charged with improper preservation of a human body and grand theft. For Pauline Durden’s family, a recent […]
After the University of Pennsylvania announced the reburial of the 19 Black people whose bones were used for racist scientific research, the community criticized officials at the Philadelphia school for their lack of involvement in the decision. Spearheaded by physician Samuel George Morton in the 1830s, The Associated Press […]
(CNN) — The Colorado city of Aurora said Monday it has reached a $1.9 million settlement with a Black family who had guns drawn on them in a stolen vehicle mix-up in 2020. “The Aurora Police Department remains committed to strengthening the relationship with the community through accountability […]
Source: General / Radio One The police shooting of a woman in Texas this past weekend is “reminiscent” of the shooting of Breonna Taylor, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in announcing he is representing the victim of law enforcement violence. Deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s […]
Leland Brown Jr. had a thing going, living out of a massive storage unit, saving money for an RV and successfully finding a loophole around the skyrocketing rental prices. However, following a viral video documenting his life as a storage unit tenant, he learned quickly that […]
The woman who was hit on the head by a microphone thrown by 50 Cent at a concert reportedly has filed a lawsuit against the rapper. Los Angeles radio host Bryhana Monegain was hospitalized after the artist threw two separate microphones into the crowd during his concert at the […]
Colman Domingo is getting in the director’s chair for an upcoming biopic about 1950s crooner Nat King Cole. Variety reports that Domingo, fresh off his successes in Rustin and The Color Purple, will now direct and star in a Nat King Cole biopic. The film will be his directing […]
Pharrell Williams has set an upcoming LEGO movie inspired by his life. Piece By Piece hails from Focus Features and is directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville and produced by Neville and Caitrin Rogers via Tremolo Productions. Williams, Mimi Valdés and Shani Saxon also produce via i […]
A Portland white man has been charged in what prosecutors said was a racially motivated attack, but allegedly he was rejected from being locked up and serving jail time on multiple occasions. Adrian Cummins, 25, was slammed with a 12-count indictment in connection to stabbing two […]
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