Jones Helps Lead Liberty Past Mystics Photo: Special to the NY Beacon New York Beacon intern Summar Lowe covered the Commissioner’s Cup game last June. NY Liberty Narrowly Defeats Washington Mystics in Commissioner’s Cup GameBy Summar Lowe In a closely contested Commissioner’s Cup game, the […]
Aleah Wallace, a 25-year-old Texas mother of four, fatally shot a 14-year-old boy named Devin Baker when he tried breaking into her daughter’s bedroom window on Dec. 14. The incident came about after Wallace’s house had already been targeted by burglars less than 24 hours […]
A former Starbucks regional manager was just awarded $25.6 million after she was fired from her job following the arrests of two Black men at a Philadelphia store five years ago in a case that set a categorical example of racial profiling and implicit bias. […]
Viviane Faver Many stars shine bright in the Big Apple, including an artist who creates beauty and sanctuary through knitting, a photographer-historian with a distinctive lens on local life, a television network executive turned founder of a convention that champions black creatives, an entrepreneur dedicated […]
Ntozake Shange’s revered choreopoem, ““for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” made a highly anticipated return on Broadway earlier this month. It originally opened in New York City’s Booth Theatre in 1976. Shange pioneered the term “choreopoem,” which combines elements of music, dance and […]
*A Wisconsin woman reportedly told police that they “were going to have fun trying to find all of the organs” of the dismembered 25-year-old man she killed during sex while high on meth. Knicks Rebound After Brutal Loss Taylor Schabusiness, 24, has been charged with […]
A Tennessee college student faces more than 300 gun charges after prosecutors say he sold dozens of guns to an undercover NYPD officer. NBC 4 reports Shakor Rodriguez, 23, who was attending Austin Peay State University in the Volunteer State, faces 304 counts. The Bronx District […]
Regardless of how you feel about Kyrie Irving’s stance on the COVID-19 vaccine, or the Brooklyn Nets’ decision to reverse course and welcome him back with open arms after Omarion Omicron did the Bankhead Bounce all throughout the league, the seven-time NBA All-Star is primed to return to a court near you […]
New York City Police officials have labeled an activist a domestic terrorist after he warned the mayor-elect there would be riots and “bloodshed” if the city reactivates plainclothes street units. Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, had a heated […]
Rev. Jesse Jackson celebrated his 80th birthday at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, New York. Families and friends gathered at the location on October 22 to salute the civil rights leader. He turned 80 on October 8. “In New York today with @real_sharpton,” Jackson wrote […]
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