Tamar Braxton was hospitalized last night (July 16).  The Braxton family has now released a joint statement.  According to the New York Post, a spokesperson for the family stated, “Tamar has had a very tough and emotional day – more information will be coming in the next few days. Please pray …

Screenshot: NBC News The statistics about police shootings in the United States are horrifying: Despite a pandemic, when stay-at-home orders affected many cities and towns across the country, police shootings are on track with previous years. As of July 17, more than 1,000 people have been the victims of police …

I also knew, slightly, a woman whose appearance, in a leopard-skin miniskirt, was the most notable thing about the magazine’s cover photograph: Laura Ingraham, who had been a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and was then an attorney at a tony law firm. In the penultimate paragraph Atlas …

The Government Oversight and Audit Committee of the Louisville Metro Council has passed an order to investigate the city’s mayor, Greg Fischer‘s, handling of Breonna Taylor’s death at the hands of police. The order, passed on Tuesday (July 14), will also investigate the death of David McAtee and the protests …

Emmy Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien will host a BET news special next week about the national call to defund and reform police institutions triggered by the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Titled American Injustice: The Fight for Police Reform, the BET News special will address this pivotal …

Photo: Doug Pensinger (Getty Images) Oh boy. For the past week, there have been rumblings about a bombshell report coming out that would expose the rotten underbelly of Washington’s NFL team, and on Thursday we finally found out what it was. The Washington Post reports that 15 former employees of …

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is responding to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s lawsuit to stop her mandate that masks be worn in her city to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. “I am not afraid of the city being sued and I’ll put our policies up against anyone’s, any day …

Share0 (iStock.com/Gwengoat) The Oregon Legislature’s Emergency Board designated $62 million to a fund providing direct assistance to Black businesses, individuals, and families. According to We Buy Black, the Oregon Cares Fund will give grants of up to $3,000 to families and up to $100,000 to Black-owned businesses. The money was …