An Oklahoma man who was already out on bond for rape charges was arrested on Monday, Aug. 23, after he was filmed yelling racial slurs at a Black teenager and threatening to kill her. Payton Heird, the 22-year-old suspect, also is accused of throwing rocks […]
Dub and reggae music icon Lee “Scratch” Perry died on Sunday at a hospital in Lucea, Jamaica, at the age of 85. Though a cause of death has yet to be confirmed Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness shared the sad news in a series of tweets on […]
Simone Biles recently stepped into the cryptocurrency world as a new partner with Autograph, where she will launch her own non-fungible tokens, also known as NFT. “Like most people, I’ve been hearing more and more about NFT’s over the past few months,” Biles told Forbes. “It’s been such an […]
An estimated 50,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Aug. 28, to protest against a wave of legislation voting rights advocates say will restrict voters’ rights. Protesters also marched in cities across the country for voting rights 58 years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King […]
Hurricane Ida has destroyed New Orleans’ historic Karnofsky Shop, where a young Louis Armstrong got his start. In video filmed Monday and shared on social media by CBS42 reporter Jack Royer, a collapsed mound of rubble can be seen where the store once stood. Armstrong […]
A white man who brandished a loaded gun at Black protestors on Martin Luther King Day in 2019 has been denied the right to use the “Stand Your Ground” defense. On Thursday, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Alberto Milian listened to Mike Bartlett’s defense and denied his motion for statutory immunity […]
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