About Desire Thompson

Desire is contributing writer for NewsOne.com and GlobalGrind.com

Some fashion editors, such as Vogue’s Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxi, should focus on clothes and stay off social media pic.twitter.com/p9z87rjRCk — James Patrick Herman (@TheGlamourGuy) March 8, 2015 Vogue readers bashed style editor-at-large Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxi over the weekend when the German princess posted a tasteless photo of a homeless person reading the […]

A terrifying tale about a woman who was raped in the middle of the night turned out to be fake because…racism. A 20-year-old white woman recanted a story Saturday after claiming she was raped in a Brooklyn park by a black man. The alleged victim says she was at Rodney Park North in Williamsburg around 12:15 a.m. when the […]

A medical examiner has determined more tests would be needed to find out the cause of death of a Syracuse University student who was found unresponsive in her hotel room over the weekend. Twenty-one-year-old Sabrina Cammock was found dead at Hotel Edison in New York Sunday morning. The student was in the city celebrating Spring Break […]

A year after transgender woman Islan Nettles was killed in New York, an arrest has finally been made. According to the New York Daily News, James Dixon was charged with second-degree manslaughter and first-degree assault. Dixon was among seven men present in Harlem on Aug. 17, 2013, when an argument broke out with Nettles and her friends. The 24-year-old catcalled Nettles and later threw homophobic […]

Days before the nation acknowledges the 50 years that have passed since peaceful civil rights demonstrators were brutality beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a new petition has circulated to rename the historic bridge in Selma, Alabama. In an interview with Huff Post Live, Brandi Hatter, outreach coordinator for Students UNITE, spoke about the group’s decision to […]

Fulton County officials in Georgia are investigating a shooting that left a 22-year veteran officer dead late Tuesday night. The officer was shot during an ambush while responding to a shots fired call with his colleague shortly after midnight. Neighbors in the Fairburn neighborhood claim the suspect was shooting in his own home before knocking […]

Minnie Minoso, the first black Latino player in the majors, died on Sunday. According to the Chicago Tribune, Minoso died shortly after leaving a friend’s birthday party Saturday night. He was found unresponsive in the driver’s seat of his car. Experiencing chest pains, Minoso reportedly pulled over, suffering a tear in his pulmonary artery caused by “chronic obstructive pulmonary […]