Media personality (and lawyer?) Geraldo Rivera was a guest on FOX’s “Outnumbered” Tuesday afternoon and got into it briefly with the show’s sole black panelist Harris Faulkner. When asked his expert legal opinion on how the situation in Ferguson might unfold, Rivera began describing the case solely in terms of race, suggesting that racial tribalism […]
In an appearance on CNN on Sunday, “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams, 33, tackled the blatant racial bias in media character assassinations of slain Ferguson teen Michael Brown, who was unarmed when he was shot and killed August 9 by police officer Darren Wilson. RELATED: Officer Darren Wilson: Photo Of Mike Brown’s Killer Surfaces I think we […]
Standing in their tradition of service and social justice, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has offered to pay the entire costs for the memorial and funeral services of Michael Brown, the 18 year old teen who was shot to death by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9. Al Sharpton and Kimora Lee Simmons […]
Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, 28, received an award for “extraordinary effort in the line of duty” months before he gunned down unarmed teenager Mike Brown and left him in the street for 4 hours last Saturday, reports Yahoo News. RELATED: Jesse Williams On Ferguson: ‘White People Have The Privilege Of Being Treated Like Human Beings’ Wilson’s […]
The case around Mike Brown’s killing by a Ferguson police officer is only getting murkier. After releasing images from a gas station robbery to the press Friday morning with the suggestion Mike Brown was pictured in them, the Ferguson police department is now backtracking. In a second press conference hours later, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson admitted that Brown’s shooting was […]
A woman by the name of Tina Seals has reportedly filed a maternity lawsuit in a Manhattan court claiming to be the biological Mother of Beyoncé (pictured) and Jay-Z’s only child, Blue Ivy (pictured), according to The Hollywood Gossip. SEE ALSO: Tragic! Young Mom Walks In Front Of Semi-Trailer Upon Learning Of Toddler’s Death The legal document allegedly […]
Hacker activist group Anonymous — who have recently joined in the protest against the killing of Michael Brown — has released audio of alleged St. Louis area police, or possibly EM, radio dispatch. The dispatch content reportedly occurs on the day and time of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. Some highlights of […]
Kayelisa Martin (pictured) reportedly committed suicide by walking in front of a semi-trailer truck on the very same day she learned that her 14-month-old son, Omoyele Gonzalez (pictured), mysteriously passed away at their home, reports Georgia Newsday. SEE ALSO: Todd Bridges Slammed For Calling Robin Williams’ Suicide ‘Selfish’ According to Canton, Ohio, police, the little […]
Ezell Ford, 24, died Tuesday after being shot by Los Angeles police during an encounter Monday night in South LA. Tritobia Ford said that her son was lying on the ground, complying with police when he was shot. He was transported to a local hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries. Read more at KTLA: […]
Ohio police fatally shot John Crawford, 22, after he spotted holding a toy rifle in a local Walmart earlier this week, reports Raw Story. SEE ALSO: Missouri Crowd After Fatal Shooting Of Unarmed 17-Year-Old Boy: ‘Kill The Police Crawford was in the toy section at Walmart’s Beavercreek location when a customer called 911 to report a man waving “what appeared to […]
Tulsa, Okla., police officers Shannon Kepler and his wife, Gina Kelper, were arrested for the shooting death of Jeremy Lake, their daughter’s boyfriend. News on 6 reports that Lake was walking with the Keplers’ daughter when the couple was approached by Shannon in an SUV. The daughter told police that she approached her father and he […]
Lekeshia Jones, 34, a former business teacher at Myers Middle School in Savannah, Georgia, was fired by the Savannah-Chatham school board after it was discovered that several of her students accessed nude selfies she saved in her cell-phone, reports SavannahNow.com. The formal reasons for her dismissal were “being irresponsible with her phone, for not properly handling or […]
