These five reasons underscore why the love for President Barack Obama has only grown since he left the White House.
R&B crooner Bobby V was carjacked at gunpoint in midtown Atlanta on Tuesday evening as he parked his 2013 Bentley outside a recording studio. Police were able to apprehend one of the robbers just a few hours later and arrested him reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bobby V, whose actual name is Robert Wilson was maneuvering his red […]
UPDATED: Saturday, August 13, 12 PM EST: Terrence Howard, star of Fox’s super hit drama Empire, welcomed his second child with wife Mira Pak on Friday. The couple, who already has a 15-month-old son, named their newest baby boy, Hero, reports People. The Oscar-nominated actor already has three children with his first and second marriage […]
Little Silas Phillips (pictured) was determined to enter this world by any means necessary, even if he was still completely encased in his amniotic sac, also known as an “en caul” birth. The premature miracle boy’s delivery is so rare (about 1 in 80,000), the doctor who delivered him snapped a picture with his cell phone that was placed […]
A group of African-American workers at a Manhattan TGI Friday’s restaurant filed a class-action discrimination suit when they were allegedly replaced by lighter-skinned employees after the eatery moved to a new location, states the New York Daily News. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday at the Bronx Supreme Court. According to reports, the group of black workers let their feelings […]
What year is it again? Under an arcane law, hundreds of Floridians are being fined for living with a romantic partner sans government permission, thanks to an 1868 cohabitation statute that just happens to still be in effect. The crime is punishable by a $500 fine and as much as 60 days in jail. Around 700 people were charged […]
Martha Nagbe the wife of a Lisbon, North Dakota pastor has been not only slapped with a few fines but has had two court dates and all because she feels compelled to stand on a street and pray in public, according to Valley News Live. Even though Nagbe has been issued $150 in fines for “unnecessary noise,” the […]
Ira Peterson (pictured) was arrested and now faces second-degree domestic violence charges and all because she allegedly shot her grand nephew in the foot following a heated altercation over $20, according to The Smoking Gun. The 79-year-old Mobile, Alabama woman who lives with the unidentified 25-year-old grand nephew in question, accused him of stealing the monies from her. […]
Judge Gerald Popeo (pictured), a Utica City, New York judge was accused of denigrating Blacks and others. Despite his actions, he got to keep his job, according to Syracuse.com. Popeo is alleged to have used a racial slur after a session in his court when he asked an African-American attorney if he knew what New York City Blacks call Black […]
Kristi Capel (pictured), co-anchor of a FOX affiliate, Cleveland morning news show, dropped the racial epithet, “jigaboo” on Monday morning to describe songstress Lady Gaga’s Oscar performance. The former beauty queen was not only on live television when she laughingly spewed the verbal faux pas twice but her on-air colleague just happens to be an older black male. She […]
Jennifer Lee Pryor (pictured), the widow of comedy legend, Richard Pryor (pictured below with shades) was interviewed on the podcast “Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend,” and held nothing back when it came to her late husband’s alleged nemesis, Bill Cosby. Pryor did not hold her tongue when she referred to Cosby as “a piece of […]
Ten Wesleyan University students and two visitors were hospitalized, two in critical condition, after overdosing on a drug known as “Molly,” according to the Hartford Courant. The students were reportedly at a co-ed campus party Saturday night and took the stimulant psychoactive drug, the most pure form of MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine,) which is a potent form of Ecstasy. According […]