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Jussie Smollett is headed to trial in Chicago after a judge denied his latest motion to dismiss disorderly conduct charges from his alleged 2019 hate crime hoax.  According to USA Today, Smollett will stand in front of a jury beginning on Nov. 29, which will be open to the public …

A press conference held by St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones and Kansas City, Mo. mayor Quinton Lucas about their joint efforts to curb crime in their cities was interrupted by gunfire on Friday. And Jones took that as an opportunity to drive home how much a new approach to crime …

HOLLYWOOD – JUNE 28: Musicians Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel of the Fugees pose backstage at the BET Awards 05 at the Kodak Theatre on June 28, 2005 in Hollywood, California. Photo: Frank Micelotta (Getty Images) The Fugees announced Friday that their hotly-anticipated reunion tour, which was slated …

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Chicago Public Schools has agreed to a settlement to pay $1.2 million to the mother of a student who was being bullied at one of their schools and died after he attempted to kill himself. According to The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Public Schools has reached a $1.25 million settlement with …

Photo: FocusStocker (Shutterstock) A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a Black former track coach for a Connecticut high school alleges that his firing was an act of retaliation for telling police that a student spat on him last year. The Hartford Courant reports that Lorenzo Milledge believes he was …

NAGOYA, Japan—Vegetables, vegetables, vegetables. I am sitting in a cardboard cubicle at a counter inside a ramen shop, rehearsing my order in my head over and over again. My sister is in the next cubicle over—all I can see is the top of her head—and later I will learn that …

Adele is setting the music scene ablaze next month with a special concert performance and Oprah Winfrey interview as part of the event.  Ahead of the release of her long-awaited fourth album 30, CBS is set to air a two-hour special “Adele One Night Only” featuring a concert debuting the …

Six FDNY firefighters have been suspended for driving their fire truck to the office of NY state senator Zellnor Myrie’s office and threatening his staff over the city’s vaccine mandate for workers. The firefighters, who were on duty Friday, drove a ladder truck to the state senator’s Brooklyn office. The …

Former First Lady and author Michelle Obama appears onstage with Tracee Ellis Ross at Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama at the Forum on November 15, 2018 in Inglewood, Calif.Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) Black-ish is going out big—as it should. Kenya Barris’ hit ABC series, which spawned the …