Joe Morton, better known as the infamous “Papa Pope” on TV’s hit series Scandal, has secured a nomination for this year’s round of Emmy Awards. Thursday’s eagerly awaited reveal of the list of nominees was a huge nod to Game of Thrones, which secured 19 nominations, followed closely by Fargo with 18 and American Horror Story: Coven with 17.…

Charlie Bothuell V, the Detroit boy found alive in his basement after going missing, was repeatedly abused, forced to complete rigorous workout routines and subjected to beatings with a PVC pipe, according to a court petition and as reported by the Detroit Free Press in USA Today.  The petition claimed that Charlie was forced to do 100…

The Georgia Republican Party has been slapped with a lawsuit, with a former aide saying she was discriminated against based on her race. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Qiana Keith, who is black, said that she heard co-workers referring to her as the “house n—ger” and that they also disrespected and humiliated her. While Keith…

Jay Z, much like his wife, Beyoncé, has a philanthropic streak and is set to wow a crowd at the 2014 Global Citizen Festival in the fight to end world poverty, Rolling Stone reports. The rapper, native to Brooklyn, N.Y., will be headlining the huge charity event in New York’s Central Park later this year…

It turns out that Beyoncé has been a silent benefactor to the less fortunate in her hometown all along, according to Music.Mic. The renowned musician was recently outed by her pastor for giving some $7 million over the past five years to fund a housing complex for the homeless—the Knowles-Temenos Place Apartments—in Houston. “She is…

A furious Tennessee mom is suing the Sumner County Schools because, she says, the system did not do enough to stop the racist taunts and tirades against her daughter, News Channel 5 reports. Wanda Rice of Hendersonville is claiming that her daughter Shannon, who was a student at the Hendersonville High School and a member…

A young New York mother is facing murder charges after suffocating her infant son to death by wrapping him in a sheet and waiting hours before taking him to the hospital, DNAinfo reports. Nicole Kelly, 22, reportedly told investigators that she was having trouble raising the 11-month-old alone. “I reached my breaking point; I didn’t…

“I feel like killing someone.” That is what 21-year-old Michael Joseph Fobbs allegedly said as he paused, only for a minute, in his brutal beating of a 56-year-old Texas man in a San Antonio Amtrak station, Kens5.com reports. With those words, he continued the fatal barrage with his fists in front of a crowd at…

The 1964 NFL championship ring belonging to former Cleveland Browns star Jim Brown is a prize in anyone’s eyes. However, the ring, which is up for auction at Lelands, was stolen from the famed running back 40 years ago, he claims, according to the Associated Press. Brown says that the claim that he authenticated the…