Six months after Miriam Carey (pictured), a 34-year-old Mother, from Connecticut was shot dead in the nation’s capital under questionable circumstances, her autopsy report has finally been released. Carey was shot five times, including once in the back of the head, according to the report. Video of the shooting indicates that officers fired at least seven […]
Spike Lee is on rant mode once again and this time his discontent is directed at New York Times film critic A.O. Scott who wrote a column discussing the director’s gentrification remarks from February. Thing is, Lee attacked Scott for critiques that the columnist really didn’t make. RELATED: What Do Native Brooklynites Think About Gentrification? […]
For more than a year, Zaida Pugh, known as “msmuffinpranks” on social media, has been fooling New Yorkers — including journalists and viewers all over the social web — with her prank YouTube videos that have featured her posing as a pregnant woman in labor near a Brooklyn beach, a ratchet costumer twerking inside of […]
Two days after Lupita Nyong’o accepted the “Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress” for her riveting portrayal of “Patsy” in “12 Years A Slave,” Jamie Broadnax sent out a tweet to her 15,000 followers saying that the Kenyan beauty should be America’s next shero: Unexpected support from that tweet lead Broadnax, 34, to create a […]
Ebony Wilkerson‘s (pictured) mental health and well-being of her unborn child continue to be issues of concern for her defense attorneys and psychiatrist who treated her based on testimony during her bond hearing Monday. RELATED: If Ebony Wilkerson Does Have A Mental Illness, It’s A Wake-Up Call For All African Americans According to the Orlando Sentinel, […]
Ebony Wilkerson is sitting inside a Florida jail cell, but should she be viewed as a cold-blooded criminal or a mentally-ill person in need of long-term mental health care? Wilkerson, 32, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and is being held on $1.2 million bail after she drove herself and her three […]
Dick Cheney‘s cowboy adventurism helped to lead America into an unnecessary war with Iraq back in 2002, but his recent criticism of President Barack Obama‘s diplomatic efforts to help resolve the crisis in Ukraine clearly shows he has yet to learn his lesson. “No military,” Cheney said on CBS’s “Face The Nation” Sunday morning. “He […]