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FILE – In this Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, then-Pierce County Sheriff’s Dept. spokesman Det. Ed Troyer answers questions during a news conference in Tacoma, Wash. The Washington state attorney general on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, filed two misdemeanor criminal charges against Troyer, now the Pierce County sheriff, stemming from …
Read More »Jussie Smollett Trial Set For November
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 …
Read More »St. Louis Mayor’s Press Conference On Crime Interrupted By Gunfire
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 …
Read More »Fugees Postpone Long-Awaited Reunion Tour Until 2022
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 …
Read More »These Men Showcased Sexy Beards At The BET Hip Hop Awards
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Read More »Are sexy Halloween costumes empowering or problematic?
(Photo: Adobe Stock) As a self-identified intersectional hood feminist, I love the freedom that Halloween offers to express oneself in the campiest and sluttiest of outfits. This phenomenon has always intrigued me, and as a sexologist, I am perfectly pro-Halloween and all its campy, cleavage-wielding scantily clad costumes. I often …
Read More »Chicago Public Schools Settles $1.25 Million Case For Student Who Attempted Suicide and Later Died
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 …
Read More »A Black Ex-High School Track Coach Alleges His Firing Was a Racially-Motivated Act of Retaliation Against Him
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 …
Read More »If Silence Is the Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It
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 …
Read More »Kevin Faulk Taking Time Away From Coaching At LSU After His 19-Year-Old Daughter Dies
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