A young aspiring model is using an alleged domestic violence incident to shine light on partner abuse and how serious and life threatening it can be. Mori Gabriella Montgomery, 19, has been posting pictures to her social media accounts of her gruesome injuries allegedly caused by an abusive boyfriend, New York’s Daily News reports. Montgomery claims…

The two men who used stolen passports to board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight were not black, as was previously reported, but in fact asylum seekers from Iran, Fox News reports. Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble confirmed that 19-year-old Pouri Nourmohammadi and 29-year-old Delavar Seyedmohammaderza had traveled to Malaysia on Iranian passports from Tehran,…

Here we go again. The National Young Fundamentalists Conference is learning that blackface is not OK, after putting on a skit in which a member of the Clay Mills Road Baptist Church in Kentucky—where the convention was being held—dressed as Mr. T, complete with blackface, Mediaite reports. The pastor’s assistant, Joseph Pickens, took a picture…

George Zimmerman doesn’t understand why his signing autographs at a gun show in Florida might spark public outrage, so that’s how he spent his weekend, according to Mediaite. The former neighborhood watchman, who was acquitted last year in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, was at the New Orlando Gun Show signing autographs…

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the parents of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, as well as Tom Joyner and members of the Dream Defenders, are once again marching for change to Florida’s “Stand your ground” law, Tallahassee.com reports. Joined by hundreds of other marchers, the group—including family members of Emmett Till—traveled less than a mile from the…

“The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there’ll be sun.” The words and the tune are familiar, but the decidedly hip-hop twist belies a completely different story: that of the orphan Annie, who, in 2014, just happens to be black. On Wednesday the world was given a sneak peek at…

Idris Elba is a pretty diverse actor, grabbing important roles across starkly different genres in films like Thor, Pacific Rim, American Gangster, Daddy’s Little Girls and, his most recent success, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.  But this time the talented entertainer is stretching his voice acting muscles. He is well into final negotiations to be the new voice…