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‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Officials with the Louisville Metro Police Department have identified the man in custody who they say shot and wounded two police officers Wednesday night (Sep. 23) amid protests in the city. Larynzo Johnson, 26, was arrested at 8:40 p.m., according to his …

Photo: Apu GOMES (Getty Images) The only person to face charges for his actions in the early hours of March 13, the day Breonna Taylor was killed, was a former Louisville Metro Police officer who, in fact, wasn’t charged with her fatal shooting at all. On Wednesday afternoon, a grand …

Photos: Wuhan under quarantine If 76 Days has a narrative, it’s about order being slowly and painfully reborn out of total confusion, of humanity reasserting itself in the face of an uncompassionate and destructive disease. The main characters are health-care workers, nurses and doctors who flit from patient to patient …

As the country is waiting to see if the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor in her own home will be charged, reality tv star Porsha Williams is speaking out about her activism for the 26-year-old EMT worker. In an essay for PEOPLE, Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams …

‘);var c=function(){cf.showAsyncAd(opts)};if(typeof window.cf !== ‘undefined’)c();else{cf_async=!0;var r=document.createElement(“script”),s=document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0];r.async=!0;r.src=”http://srv.clickfuse.com/showads/showad.js”;r.readyState?r.onreadystatechange=function(){if(“loaded”==r.readyState||”complete”==r.readyState)r.onreadystatechange=null,c()}:r.onload=c;s.parentNode.insertBefore(r,s)}; })(); Savior Mowry, the younger brother of Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Tamera Mowry-Housley and Tahj Mowry, is officially a married man! Tavior, 27, tied the knot with his fiancée Zandy Fitzgerald Monday (Sep. 21) at the Graystone Quarry, a reclaimed rock quarry outside of Nashville. …

Queen Latifah has announced that she’ll be collaborating with the American Lung Association for its first-ever livestream benefit, #Act4Impact where she will be the host. The event, that will raise money for the ALA COVID-19 Action Initiative, will take place on Sept 26.  People reports that Latifah was drawn to …

Vanessa Bryant is fighting back against the Los Angeles County Sheriff and his department due to leaked photos of the crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna Bryant. Los Angeles-based KTTV says the lawsuit read, “no fewer than 8 sheriff’s deputies at the crash site pulled out …

Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf told several Black employees during a Zoom meeting earlier this summer that the bank had trouble reaching diversity goals because there were not enough qualified minority talent. Two participants in the meeting told Reuters Scharf made the same comment in a company-wide memo on June …

Dwyane Wade And Gabrielle Union’s support of Zaya Wade is one of the many things that helped land them on this year’s TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people. However, the proud parents are giving Zaya much of the credit. On September 22, Union told Good Morning America, …

Debra Ray, the aunt of Dijon Kizzee, is hugged after speaking to protesters gathered at a makeshift memorial on September 1, 2020 in Los Angeles, at the location where Dijon Kizzee was shot and killed the previous day by Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies. Photo: Robyn Beck (Getty Images) Earlier this …