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LAPD Officers Will Not Be Charged in Fatal 2015 Shooting of Woman They Say Had a Knife
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it will not be filing criminal charges against the two police officers who shot and killed a woman in 2015, once again going against a ruling of the Los Angeles Police Commission. Prosecutors reviewed evidence that included video footage captured by the officers’ body cameras before…
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Bethune-Cookman President Threatens to Withhold Students’ Degrees Amid Loud Boos for Betsy DeVos
The NAACP Florida State Conference was right. As Bethune-Cookman University graduates loudly booed U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during her remarks at the school’s commencement ceremony Wednesday morning, university President Edison Jackson threatened to withhold their degrees. “If this behavior continues,” Jackson said angrily as DeVos uncomfortably stood beside him with a smile frozen on…
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15-Year-Old Founder of Bow-and-Necktie Company Scores Huge NBA Partnership
While a lot of teenagers are spending their time doing homework, talking on the phone, hanging with their friends at the mall or making their latest Snapchat video, one 15-year-old has just inked a lucrative licensing deal with the NBA that could very well lead to his earning seven figures or more. Moziah “Mo” Bridges…
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#WalterScott: ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Sign Put Up Near Where Killer Cop Gunned Down Unarmed Black Motorist
Even with former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager pleading guilty in his federal civil rights trial for Walter Scott’s death, the unarmed black motorist who was gunned down in cold blood still cannot rest peacefully, it would seem. The Post and Courier reports that police sympathizers have paid to have a “Blue Lives…
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School Corporal Punishment Ban Fails in La. House
Students in more than half of Louisiana’s public school districts will still be subject to paddling and spanking in school for misbehavior after the state House on Monday rejected a proposal to ban corporal punishment across the state. The Times-Picayune reports that only 34 lawmakers voted in favor of Shreveport Democrat Rep. Barbara Norton’s prohibition…
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Phaedra Is Fired for Fueling Vicious Rumors and Lies on Real Housewives of Atlanta
Phaedra Parks, the Southern-belle attorney who always has a side hustle, a side eye and plenty of shade, has been fired from The Real Housewives of Atlanta for spreading a vicious lie about castmate Kandi Burruss and her husband, Todd Tucker. According to TMZ, Phaedra was let go because during the filming of the most…
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Sheila Jackson Lee Defends Obamacare on House Floor, GOP Congressman Calls Her ‘Hysterical’
Thursday morning, while we were all preparing to lose our health insurance, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stood on the House floor and gave the kind of speech that would have you nodding your head and saying “Amen” if you were in church. When she was done, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) called her “hysterical.” Lee…
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Black Students at Harvard Will Host Individual Graduation Ceremony
Graduating from Harvard University is a huge accomplishment for any student, and the commemoration of that event should be something that will be remembered for a lifetime. For black graduate students in 2017, that memory will come in the form of an individual ceremony, the first such ceremony in recent history. The event, which took…
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Ebony Magazine Cuts a Third of Its Staff and Moves Editorial Operations to Los Angeles
A major shake-up happened at Ebony magazine this week as the historic black publication laid off nearly a third of its staff and made plans to consolidate editorial operations with sister publication Jet in Los Angeles. Ebony is a monthly lifestyle magazine that was launched in Chicago in 1945 and has called the city home…
