The body of Elisa Lam (pictured inset), 21, was discovered Tuesday in the roof-top water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles weeks after her family reported her missing, reports CBS Los Angeles. Lam’s corpse wasn’t discovered until a maintenance man went to check out the tank to determine what was causing low water […]
Congratulations are in order for one of the cutest couples on the planet! Model and television personality Amber Rose, and Hip-Hop heavyweight Wiz Khalifa welcomed a healthy, baby boy into the world today. This is the first child for both Wiz and Amber. The baby was due February 24, and Amber shut down rumors yesterday […]
In 2009, Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) state worker Crystal Perry met with her supervisor to discuss why she was overlooked for a promotion. Days later, someone reportedly perched a 5-foot-tall ape on top of her cubicle wall to which Perry responded by filing a lawsuit against the agency charging discrimination. Now, more than three […]
On Thursday morning, the Rev. Al Sharpton (pictured right) interviewed President Barack Obama (pictured) for his radio show, “Keepin’ It Real With Al Sharpton,” on what Black History Month means to him, rising out of the Great Recession, and the seriousness of the sequester. RELATED: Obama’s Next Financial Fight: The Sequester Listen to the interview […]
As much as many of us support President Barack Obama, it has often proved to be a task to get the first Black president to address issues directly plaguing people of color — particularly those at the bottom of the socioeconomic totem pole. We can debate the varying justifications as to why that is, but […]
Muslim minister and human rights leader El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, widely known as Malcolm X, stands as one of the most-influential figures in Black History. Forty-eight years ago today, Malcolm X was gunned down by three assailants, and it has been speculated that the killing was inspired by words from his former Nation of Islam (NOI) […]
A female prison guard has been charged with rape after having sex with a male inmate at a maximum-security state prison in the Hudson Valley, Fox News 5 New York reports. RELATED: Convicted Cop Killer Allegedly Impregnates Prison Guard State police say that Tyshinia Love Brewster was in a sexual relationship with an inmate at Downstate […]
In a lawsuit, Bernard Anderson Bey (pictured) is demanding that his parents pay him the hefty sum of $200,000 because he felt unloved and abandoned by them, which allegedly caused him to become homeless and destitute, reports the New York Post. SEE ALSO: Hate Crime: Gay Man Attacked By 5 Women On NYC Subway, No One […]
A man was arrested in Manatee County, Fla. this week for assaulting his wife after she asked him to stop scratching his testicles, The Smoking Gun reports. RELATED: Angry Wife Pours Hot Water On Cheating Husband’s Penis Ronald Howard, 30, was sitting on his couch scratching his man jewels, when his girlfriend, Shalamar Petrarca, insisted that […]
In the seemingly never-ending battle between NBA star Dwyane Wade (pictured bottom) and his ex-wife, Siohvaughn (pictured top), the former miffed missus is now accusing the baller of both denying his children asthma medication and purposefully keeping her away from the kids, according to TMZ. SEE ALSO: Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty In Campaign Case […]
Urena Morel Frankellym (pictured), 23, was verbally and physically attacked on a Manhattan subway by 5 women and 1 man as fellow travelers stood by and did absolutely nothing, reports the NY Daily News. Frankellym and his partner were eating when a female passenger began snapping pictures of them. After he asked why she was […]
