Mom of 8-Year-Old Ohio Girl Who Drove Herself To Target Speaks Out, Attorney for Diddy Accusers Says More A-List Celebs Are Involved, CBS Execs Admit Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview Was Handled Poorly, Louisville Black Man Gets Big Payday From The City And More

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The Case of Two Black Men Acquitted of Raping White Woman Takes Another Strange Turn

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The case of two Black men acquitted of the sexual assault of a white Texas woman just took an interesting turn: in November 2023, Amanda Zawieruszynski accused John Marks and Freddie Douglas Jr. of sexually assaulting her in the pool at Marks’ home in Manvel, Texas. – Candace McDuffie Read More

Attorney for More than 100 Diddy Accusers Says More A-List Celebs Are Involved And Will Be Named

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The Houston attorney representing over 100 plaintiffs in the pending lawsuit against Bad Boy Entertainment founder Sean “Diddy” Combs has even more tea to spill about who may be implicated in the disgusting allegations. – Kalyn Womack Read More

The Shocking Details Behind a Woman Sabotaging Her Fiancee’s Affair By Driving Him to Murder

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Chicago police were left stunned after the slaughter of a local couple and their two children. The investigation linked the killing to another couple but the details suggest the crime was a meticulously pre-meditated plot. – Kalyn Womack Read More

Missouri Mom Gives Birth to One Son, And Learns Her Oldest Boy Was Just Shot Dead

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A Missouri mother welcomed her premature newborn into the world early September. However, she was informed by a family friend that she wasn’t allowed to return home because of a tragedy that would change her life forever. – Kalyn Womack Read More

Huge New Development in Diddy’s Federal Sex Trafficking Case

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This is a breaking story about the latest lawsuit against Bad Boy Records founder Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Come back for new developments.

New court filings revealed some new details as to when we can expect Bad Boy Entertainment founder Sean “Diddy” Combs to face a jury in trial on his sex trafficking charges. – Kalyn Womack Read More

In Leaked Audio, CBS Execs Admit Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview Was Handled Poorly

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Remember that wildly heated interview that took place between “CBS Mornings” co-anchor Tony Dokoupil and author Ta-Nehisi Coates that went viral last month? Well, network brass has admitted that Dokoupil’s conduct simply did not meet their editorial standards. – Candace McDuffie Read More

Louisville Black Man Accused of Driving With Drugs Gets Big Payday From the City

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Nearly six years after Marlo Brown was wrongly frisked and threatened by Louisville police, he’s finally getting some justice.

On Wednesday, the city of Louisville agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a lawsuit relating to an incident where officers stopped Browm, a Black man, while he was driving and accused him of having drugs, according to WDRB. – Noah A. McGee Read More

An 8-Year-Old Boy Was Left Dead in a House For More Than a Year, But That’s Not All…

Kendrick Leee Screenshot: Facebook

The people responsible for the death of an 8-year-old boy and the abuse of three other children are finally facing the consequences for it. But it’s the details behind the boy’s death that are particularly sickening. – Noah A. McGee Read More

A Disabled Alabama Black Man Was Found Hanging From a Tree, His Family Believes Police Were Involved

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About eight months after a Black man filed a police brutality lawsuit against an Alabama police department, he was found hanging by rope. Is it a coincidence…? His family doesn’t think so. – Kalyn Womack Read More

Mom of 8-Year-Old Ohio Girl Who Drove Herself To Target Speaks Out

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An eight-year-old Ohio girl has gone viral for taking herself on a Target run for the ages – and now her mother is speaking out.

According to Cleveland’s ABC affiliate, Zoe Wilson took her mother’s 2020 Nissan Rogue out in the early morning hours of September 15. A neighbor’s Ring camera captured the young girl getting behind the wheel and driving off. – Angela Johnson Read More

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