On Thursday, even as former Empire actor Jussie Smollett protested his innocence, he was sentenced to 150 days in jail, 30 months of felony probation, and ordered to pay restitution of more than $120,000 and a $25,000 fine for lying on police reports in a hate crime hoax in January …

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett arrives at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building for his sentencing hearing on March 10, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Though its been fivescore and 50-leven years since the curious case of Jussie Smollett and the Fake Hate Crime took over the …

Bodycam footage of Ryan Coogler being detained inside of a Bank of America in Atlanta was released on Wednesday showing how the Black Panther director reacted to being mistaken for a bank robber. Video shows Coogler was approached by police while he was standing at the bank teller counter on …

Tasha Cobbs Leonard has a new son. The gospel singer and her husband, music producer Kenneth Leonard, announced that they have welcomed a baby boy, Asher, through adoption. Although they gained their new addition over eight months ago, the two are finally disclosing details about the expansion of their family. …

Photo: Sergey Zaykov (Shutterstock) The cosmetics industry has a long history of furthering the potentially dangerous and definitely racist notion that a person’s self-worth is tied to the color of their skin. And skin-whitening products are one of the most egregious examples. But alas, folks are spending a lot of …

“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. The world is full of outsiders: students away at a university far from home, …

Last year, in solidarity with Breonna Taylor’s family, artist and curator Lady Pheønix developed “Breonna’s Garden,” a revolutionary framework for veneration through augmented reality (AR). Now, less than a full year later, the project is providing virtual safe spaces to larger audiences through fully immersive VR. The development of the project began …

Through her “tell-it-like-it-is approach,” Judge Mablean Ephriam brings joy, laughter and truth to the courtroom. In October 1998, Twentieth Century Fox offered the former prosecuting attorney the opportunity to take up the gavel on “Divorce Court,” the first woman and Black person to do so. The role launched her career …

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, March 3, 2022.Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc (Getty Images) Sen. Lindsey Graham stated his reasons as to why he’s leaning towards a no vote on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to …

If you’re an American schoolchild, you’ve probably spent much of your recent life alone at home in the mesmerizing glow of a screen, twitching between Google Classroom and innumerable online distractions. Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to spend most days in an actual classroom with two-thirds of your face wrapped …