As information continues to surface regarding the events surrounding 16-year-old Kimani Gray‘s shooting by NYPD officers on March 9th, it appears that the initially unnamed Officers Jovaniel Cordova (pictured below left) and Sergeant Mourad Mourad (pictured below) reportedly cost the New York Police Department hundreds of thousands of dollars due to previous civil rights violations, […]
UPDATE: 1:10 AM EST: Lil Wayne has been released from Cedars Sinai Medical Center after being admitted for seizures last week and remaining in the Intensive Care Unit for six days, reports All Hip-Hop. “Wayne is feeling weak but he’s a lot better” says a close source. “He plans on laying low until he makes a […]
Bobby Smith (pictured), co-founder and, for the most part, the lead singer of the iconic R&B group, The Spinners, has passed away at age 76, reports Soul Tracks. Smith passed away from complications of influenza and pneumonia; it was also reported that he had been suffering from lung cancer. Smith was a Detroit native and […]
A Detroit woman claims that her home on the city’s southwest side was robbed twice and she got little help from the cops, Fox 2 News Detroit reports. Ashley Ball (pictured) says the first time her home was jacked was on Tuesday, when she arrived home to see that her door had been “pried open […]
For much of the 19th century, the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, later known as the American Colonization Society (ACS), assisted in efforts for former slaves to return to Africa. The ACS’ Quaker and evangelical abolitionist founders established Liberia as a colony for freedmen, which was sparked by the […]
Names, such as Armani-Chanel, Quo’Tatashia, Devonterray, Mopreshia, or Telaphonia-Sheeray, certainly make your ears perk up when you first hear them. Even though the recent celebrity trend has been to give children names that buck the norm, in the past, it has oftentimes been a topic of conversation that many Black women, in particular, tend to […]
A Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) panel in National Harbor, Md., turned controversial Friday when one participant defended slavery as a good thing for African-Americans. SEE ALSO: Obama Heads To Middle East, Seeks To Reaffirm Relationship With Israel “It seems to me like you’re reaching out to voters at the expense of young white southern […]
Rapper Tone Loc (pictured) reportedly collapsed on stage after he finished performing a song, reports TMZ. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Tone Loc has collapsed during a performance. SEE ALSO: Beyoncé Releases New Single: Bow Down B*tches [LISTEN] During a Saturday night concert gig in Des Moines, Iowa, the 47-year-old hip-hop star, whose actual name […]
Sunday night, the hugely popular television series “The Bible” debuted with their third installment, which concluded with the Old Testament and began with the New Testament. Apparently, faux-political commentator Glenn Beck (pictured) has been keeping tabs on the show and made a controversial observation regarding the resemblance between President Barack Obama and actor Mohamen Mehdi […]
What is the best ab exercise? What’s the best way to tone every angle of your stomach, including your obliques? It’s called…a plank. What is…
We know you’ve heard about diet soda dangers. But, you still feel better about having those two jumbo sized hot dogs and fries since you…
On February 3rd, while sports — and Beyonce — lovers were distracted by the Super Bowl, Dr. Randy Short began to spread the word via social media that Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of transcendent human rights activist El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), had been arrested by the FBI while en route to Iran to attend a Hollywoodism conference. RELATED: […]
