Jimmy Fallon apologized on Tuesday (May 26) for putting on blackface to impersonate his fellow comedian Chris Rock in a twenty-year-old Saturday Night Live skit. Video of the skit resurfaced this week, prompting Twitter to throw a #JimmyFallonIsOverParty. RELATED: Jamie Foxx And Shaq Surprise A 5-Year-Old Fan “In 2000, while …
Read More »Alabama High School Star Athlete & UAB Football Signee Jamari “Chop” Smith, 18, Dies After Drowning in Lake
Jamari “Chop” Smith—a standout athlete out of Montgomery, Alabama and rising UAB freshman—has died at the age of 18 after an accidental drowning at a lake in Auburn. News of Smith’s death spread on social media Wednesday evening (May 27) after Auburn police said that a Montgomery 18-year-old had …
Read More »West Virginia Mail Carrier Charged With Election Fraud for Altering Absentee Ballot Applications
Photo: Shutterstock Many conservatives—including y’all’s president—have had a lot to say about mail-in voting and the potential it has to cause voter fraud. Of course, there’s not much evidence supporting the idea that absentee ballots will result in fraud on the part of voters, but in West Virginia, one case …
Read More »Teenage Sister of Reality Star Betty Idol Fatally Shot in the Head, Police Believe it Was an Accident But Family Wants Justice: “Being Shot in the Head is NO ACCIDENT”
The teenage sister of reality star Betty Idol was tragically shot and killed, and now the family wants more answers and are demanding the police to investigate further. 17-year-old Giselle Rengifo was shot in the back of the head last Monday (May 18) while at a Miami Airbnb with …
Read More »<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Elon Musk Comes Within 20 Minutes of History
1. This is an unprecedented moment in American spaceflight history. “NASA has outsourced perhaps its most consequential task: delivering human beings beyond the boundary that separates us from the rest of the universe, and then bringing them home. And it has given the job not to a fellow spacefaring …
Read More »“I Just Want to Live”: Video of Young Black Man Singing About Racial Injustice Brings Social Media to Tears
A video of a young black man singing about racial injustice has gone viral on social media … and it’s bringing those who watch it to tears. Wearing a shirt that reads “8L4CK 1N73LL163NC3” (or: Black Intelligence), 12-year-old Keedron Bryant sings his heart out about the trauma that is …
Read More »Minneapolis Cops Officers Fired After Death Of George Floyd
UPDATE: Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey announced via Twitter that four police officers have been fired in relation to the death of a Black man, George Floyd, while in police custody. Floyd was seen on video gasping for breath while a white officer had his knee on his neck. Floyd later …
Read More »George Floyd Was “Unresponsive” & Had No Pulse When He Was Put Into Ambulance, Incident Report Says
George Floyd had no pulse and appeared to be already dead when he was placed into the back of an ambulance at the scene of his arrest Monday (May 26), an incident report from the Minneapolis Fire Department states. According to the document, which was released by the city …
Read More »Minneapolis is Starting to Look A Lot Like Ferguson After Protests Erupt Following George Floyd’s Death
Last night, people took to the streets in Minneapolis to protest the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who was killed by police officers on Monday. Not long after people gathered, they were met by officers wearing riot gear and reportedly using excessive force and tear gas to …
Read More »Venus Williams launches new sunscreen line for women of color
Venus Williams hosts an immersive experience presented by American Express Travel at the Greenwich Hotel, in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for American Express) Venus Williams may be a world-renowned athlete but now the legendary tennis player is parlaying her love of skincare into a new business …
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