Trick Daddy had another run-in with the law. According to an arrest report obtained by TMZ, police found the rapper asleep behind the wheel early Saturday morning (January 11) in Miami and in possession of cocaine. Cops say they asked Trick where he was coming from and were informed that …
Read More »Black Woman Dies After Waiting Hours in ER for Help
Photo: Tashonna Ward, Submitted by Andrea Ward It is often suggested that women, especially black women, go ignored and/or unseen due to implicit bias in the American healthcare system. Such may have been the case for Tashonna Ward, a 25-year-old day care teacher from Milwaukee who died Jan. 2 while …
Read More »Bernie Sanders Has Something New to Talk About
Sanders is already putting more of an emphasis on his foreign-policy platform. Last Saturday, the senator kicked off a campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa, by calling for immediate action from Congress to prevent a war with Iran. He’s especially contrasted himself with Biden, his biggest 2020 rival, who, notably, did …
Read More »Meghan Markle Lands An Epic New Deal
Meghan Markle quit the everyday stress of the royal microscope and has already moved on to living her best life. According to Deadline, the Duchess of Sussex has reportedly signed a deal with Disney on an “unspecified project in return for a donation to an elephant charity.” The elephant charity …
Read More »More Damage to Puerto Rico as Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake Rocks Island Saturday Morning
A car is crushed under a home that collapsed after the previous day’s magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Yauco, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. More than 250,000 Puerto Ricans remained without water on Wednesday and another half a million without power, which also affected telecommunications.Photo: Carlos Giusti (AP) America’s “Island …
Read More »Was Nancy Pelosi’s Delay Worth It?
Indeed, it was. Ultimately, McConnell refused to budge on even the most anodyne of Pelosi’s demands—that he disclose the specific rules he planned to propose that would govern the Trump trial. Pelosi relented after a number of Senate Democrats—and a couple of her own members—seemed to grow weary of the …
Read More »Florida Officer Fatally Shoots Black Teen After Car Chase
One man is dead and another is in critical condition following a car chase that escalated into an officer-involved shooting in Jacksonville, Florida On January 5, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office claims one of its officers attempted to pull over a car that was traveling in the wrong direction on Moncrief …
Read More »Yo Gotti and Roc Nation's Threats to Sue Mississippi Over 'Inhumane’ Prison System Already Yielding Fast Results
If you listen to some of their lyrics, you would think that they could give zero f—-s about other people’s problems. But don’t ever say that Yo Gotti and Jay-Z didn’t use their powers for good. The Memphis born rap artist and New York born hip hop mogul threatened to …
Read More »<em>Just Mercy </em>Is a Stark True Story of Good and Evil
As a result, Just Mercy often lacks ambiguity: Stevenson is good, McMillian is innocent, and the system that put the latter in jail is biased, heartless, and almost impossible to overcome. Cretton wisely refrains from injecting the harsh reality he depicts with the hackneyed subplots that fill out so many …
Read More »Evelyn Lozada Is Trying To Sue ‘Basketball Wives’ Co-Star
Evelyn Lozada is attempting to sue her Basketball Wives co-star for defamation but hasn’t been able to serve her. According to Bossip, Lozada was granted an emergency hearing just before Christmas where she pleaded with the judge to be able to serve Chijindu “OG” Ogom by printing a notice in …
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