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Joni Sledge, of Sister Sledge, Has Died at 60
Joni Sledge, founding member of the group Sister Sledge, most famous for the black family anthem “We Are Family,” has died. She was 60 years old. Sledge was found dead in her home in Phoenix on Friday by a friend. A cause of death has not been determined. Publicist Biff Warren, who confirmed her death,…
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Md. Becomes 5th State to Challenge Trump’s Revised Travel Ban
The “Free State” of Maryland on Friday became the fifth state to join a legal challenge seeking to block the Trump administration’s revised “Muslim ban” in court. More than two dozen lawsuits were issued against the original Jan. 27 travel ban. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said his office would formally join a suit filed…
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SportsCenter’s Jemele Hill and Michael Smith’s A Different World Remake Is Epic
Our favorite sportscasters have done it for the culture. Jemele Hill and Michael Smith, hosts of the first hour of ESPN’s SportsCenter, on Friday opened their show with a remake of the intro of The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. Hill and Smith, co-hosts of SC6, were almost unrecognizable as they perfectly blended into…
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Muhammad Ali Jr. Detained Again at Airport on Way Back From Testifying About Earlier Detention
The namesake of one of America’s most beloved athletes was detained again at an airport after a meeting on Capitol Hill to talk about a previous airport detention last month. Muhammad Ali Jr., the son of Muhammad Ali, and his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, traveled from Florida to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to speak to members…
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Harvard Confronts Its Ties to Slavery; Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls for Reparations
Harvard University is the latest university to try to make amends with its slavery-tainted past. On Friday the storied university held a conference to explore the relationship between colleges and slavery, where university President Drew Faust said the school must confront its past to move forward. “Harvard was directly complicit in slavery from the college’s…
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As Dirty as They Wanna Be: 7 Baltimore Cops Indicted for Acting Like ‘Gangsters’
Seven Baltimore police officers have been charged by federal prosecutors with a bevy of serious crimes and falsifying reports to cover them up. These cops were so rogue that the Baltimore police commissioner said they acted like old-school thugs. “These officers are 1930s-style gangsters,” said Commissioner Kevin Davis, according to the BBC. “They betrayed the…
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When All Else Fails, Blame the Black Guy—Trump Calls for a Congressional Inquiry Into Obama ‘Wiretap’
Updated Sunday, March 5, 2017, 11 a.m. EST: It seems as if President Loco is going to his tired and false bag of toddler tricks again. As with the campaign, when he faced a crisis (his taxes, pussy-gate, etc.), Donald Trump threw a ridiculous allegation at someone else—Hillary Clinton then, Barack Obama now. When all…
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Philando Castile’s Girlfriend Arrested in Alleged Hammer Attack
The girlfriend and witness to the death of Philando Castile last year was recently arrested in an attack on a woman in St. Paul, Minn. Prosecutors on Friday charged Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds with felony assault in an alleged attack with a hammer. Reynolds is the woman who live-streamed the horrific death of her boyfriend Philando…
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More Americans Killed by Police in 2017, but Trump Dominates Headlines
Police killings are actually increasing in the United States, according to new data, but because our current president is leading every news cycle, brutality is being pushed to the back burner, activists contend. The rate of police-involved deaths of American citizens is higher than in any month in 2016, and January and February each saw…
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Ark. Rushes to Execute 8 Men in Almost as Many Days—Half of Them Black
In what only can be described as a mad rush toward death, the state of Arkansas plans to execute eight inmates in April because of a looming expiration date for a drug the state uses in executions. The New York Times reports that all eight men—four black, four white—were convicted of murders that occurred between…
