culture
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Some 2,000 Feared Dead After Boko Haram Massacre in Nigerian Town
Last week Boko Haram entered the northern Nigerian town of Baga and began opening fire on residents. According to news reports, bodies were left bloodied across roadways, and those who fled into the bushes were chased and executed. Once the shooting stopped, some 2,000 people were reported dead in what Amnesty International is calling possibly…
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5 Years After Massive Earthquake, Where Is Haiti Now?
Around 5 p.m. Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake destroyed most of Haiti. Buildings were crushed, children were left parentless, and images of rubble and destruction became synonymous with the Caribbean country. In total, once all of the carnage was assessed, more than 100,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people were…
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Selma: They Lived the History, Now They Watch the Movie
Selma, Ala.: In 1965, when nonviolent activists in Alabama made that valiant trek from Selma to Montgomery for the right to vote, the Rev. Frederick D. Reese was in the front row, leading the way with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others. On Saturday the 85-year-old Baptist minister sat in a packed theater in…
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Glitz and Glam on the Red Carpet at the Golden Globes
If you missed the red-carpet preshows for the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night, here is a recap of some of the stars and fashion that graced the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton. David Oyelowo was nominated in the category Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for Selma. Quvenzhané Wallis…
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Black Hollywood Prepares to Shine at Golden Globe Awards 2015
Black Hollywood is prepared to shine at tonight’s 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Kevin Hart is scheduled to be among several presenters. Ava DuVernay, who directed the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma and is the first black woman to be nominated for a best director…
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Watch: Ind. Couple Arrested After Filming 1-Year-Old Playing With Gun
A 22-year-old Evansville, Ind., mother has been charged with child neglect after a video surfaced of her 1-year-old daughter playing with a handgun and shouting “pow” to emulate the sound of gunfire, the Daily Mail reports. The mother, Toni Wilson, a former cashier at McDonald’s, and her partner, Michael Barnes, 19, were arrested after police discovered…
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Chicago Man Accused of Killing Mom for Telling Him to ‘Find a Girlfriend’
A 26-year-old Chicago man has been charged with fatally stabbing his 54-year-old mother after she reportedly put him down and told him to find a girlfriend, the Chicago Tribune reports. Andre Brown was charged with first-degree murder last Sunday in the death of his mother, Damita Collins, who was found dead by her husband, Brown’s…
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Top Cop Says NYPD Work ‘Slowdown’ Is Over
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has declared that a work “slowdown” by officers that arose amid a rift with Mayor Bill de Blasio is over, New York magazine reports. “The slowdown is over in the sense that the numbers are starting to go back up again,” Bratton said, according to the magazine. “I…
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Watch: Anderson Cooper Corrects Colleague Who Called French Terrorist an African American
CNN’s Anderson Cooper corrected colleague Chris Cuomo’s incorrect description of a suspect as African American in one of two hostage situations that unfolded Friday in France, Mediaite reports, exhibiting an awareness that is rarely seen on television or cable news. Both men, who are white, were reporting on events from Paris about noon Eastern time,…
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Feds Offer $10,000 Reward in Blast Near NAACP Offices in Colo.
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives late Friday announced a $10,000 reward for information about an explosion this week near the offices of the Colorado Springs, Colo., chapter of the NAACP, CBS News reports. Investigators also released a sketch of a person of interest in the Tuesday blast, which could…