Former NWA member and rapper Ice Cube revealed that he almost punched a man’s clock for scamming his mother of $20. Cube, born O’Shea Jackson, disclosed the sordid details on In Depth With Graham Bensinger. “Somebody I knew and went to school with — who we knew was heavy on …
Read More »A Black Representative for Queen Elizabeth II Says the Royal Family Supports Black Lives Matter
FILE – In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 file photo, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II visits the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, England. Photo: Ben Stansall (AP) In the royal family’s latest attempt to show to the world that they aren’t racist, a senior representative told Britain’s …
Read More »‘I Was Responsible for Those People’
Updated at 11:30 a.m. on September 10, 2021. On the evening of September 4, 2021, one week before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Glenn Vogt stood at the footprint of the North Tower and gazed at the names stamped in bronze. The sun was diving below the buildings across the …
Read More »R. Kelly Accuser Says She Was Drugged, Starved Prior To Rape
A woman reportedly testified that R. Kelly locked her up without food or water for at least two days and then drugged her before he sexually assaulted her. The New York Post reports that the accuser was interning at a Utah radio station in 2003 when the incident occured and …
Read More »Teyana Taylor’s Five-Year-Old Daughter, Junie, Turns New York Fashion Week Out
New York Fashion Week served a dose of Black girl magic on Thursday. Earlier this year, the Instagram-famous clothing brand Pretty Little Thing released a collaboration with Teyana Taylor. The new gear hit the runway for this year’s highly-anticipated fashion week. Teyana’s daughter, Junie, stole the show and the audience’s …
Read More »'I Knew If He Got Me on the Floor, I Would Be Dead': Black Woman Describes Physical Altercation with Chicago Cop
Screenshot: ABC News/Good Morning America Weeks after a Chicago police officer was captured on cellphone video aggressively grabbing a Black woman walking her dog along the lakefront, the woman spoke publicly about the altercation for the first time in an interview with Good Morning America. Attorneys for Nikkita Brown have …
Read More »How 9/11 changed air travel: more security, less privacy
DALLAS (AP) — Ask anyone old enough to remember travel before Sept. 11, 2001, and you’re likely to get a gauzy recollection of what flying was like. There was security screening, but it wasn’t anywhere near as intrusive. There were no long checkpoint lines. Passengers and their families could walk …
Read More »America Did Al-Qaeda’s Work for It
Alex Majoli / Magnum The United States today does not have so much as an embassy in Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Syria, or Yemen. It demonstrably has little influence over nominal allies such as Pakistan, which has been aiding the Taliban for decades, and Saudi Arabia, which has prolonged the conflict …
Read More »Trina Casually Drops An Epic Relationship Status Update
Is Trina getting ready to walk down the aisle? On Sept. 9, the rapper revealed during a FaceTime call with life coach Stormy Wellington that someone put a ring on it. She didn’t say who the lucky man is but she showed off the rock, saying, “I had a big …
Read More »Tiffany Haddish Stars In New Drama ‘The Card Counter’
Tiffany Haddish is always ready to make us laugh, but in her upcoming role as La Linda in the new crime drama, “The Card Counter”, she’s not joking around one bit. The revenge thriller will follow an ex-military interrogator who becomes a gambler and tries to hide his past decisions …
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