culture
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Trump Agency Accused of Bilking Model Out of Salary
A model has filed a federal lawsuit against Trump Model Management, charging that she was promised an annual salary of $75,000 but received only $3,380.75 for 21 jobs over three years, New York’s Daily News reports. In the suit, a proposed class action, Alexia Palmer alleges that between January 2011 and December 2013, the agency…
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Why President Obama’s Credit Card Was Declined
When President Barack Obama’s credit card was declined at a fancy restaurant in New York City last month, the first lady had him covered. But CNN reports that bad credit was not the issue. The card was likely declined to prevent identity theft. The president told the story Friday while speaking to workers at the…
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Supreme Court Upholds New Texas Voter-ID Law
The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a controversial new voter-identification law in Texas, which can be used for the November election, the Associated Press reports. The order came after a majority of the justices rejected an emergency request from the Justice Department and civil rights groups to prohibit the state from requiring…
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Report: Darren Wilson Feared for His Life
Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department says he was in fear for his life in August when he shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown, the New York Times reports. The shooting sparked continuing protests over police violence against minorities, especially unarmed black men. Wilson’s testimony to federal investigators, shared by officials…
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‘Captain Save-a-Bro’: Women, Stop Trying to Save Wayward Men
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks recently told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that all the rumors were true: She was planning to divorce her now-convict hubby, Apollo Nida. But there was no surprise. Parks skipped out on Nida’s sentencing hearing in July. It was obvious for anyone to see that the marriage wouldn’t…
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Tracy Mourning Is Helping Black Girls Shine Nationwide
It all started when Tracy Wilson Mourning saw a group of girls walking around their Florida neighborhood seemingly directionless, “babies raising babies,” as she described it, with their own children on their hips. She saw something of herself in them and wondered where she would be without the people—especially the women—she had in her life…
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Court Orders Ala. Pastor With AIDS Out of the Church
The Alabama minister who confessed to his congregation that he has AIDS and knew of his status as he slept with married church members on Thursday was temporarily banned by a judge from acting as a pastor, the Associated Press reports. Deacons and trustees of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church earlier this week sought an…
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Dear White People Skewers College Life as a ‘Black Face in a White Place’
After years of writing, publicizing, crowdfunding and screening his smart-house film to packed film-festival audiences, Justin Simien is finally seeing Dear White People, his send-up of the pitfalls of black-student life at a mostly white college, released in mainstream cinemas today. And having had the opportunity to see the film on the festival circuit before it won…
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Michael Dunn Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Teen Over Loud Music
Michael Dunn, the Florida man found guilty earlier this month of first-degree murder in the shooting death of unarmed teen Jordan Davis over loud music, has been sentenced to life without parole, according to NBC News. Dunn, 47, had previously been convicted on three counts of second-degree attempted murder after he shot into a vehicle…
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How to Get Away With Murder Recap: 9 Words, 2 Eyelashes and 1 Wig
How to Get Away With Murder’s much-touted “9 Words” teaser from last week was nearly eclipsed at the end of Thursday night’s episode by the wig drop heard the world over: the scene where Annalise Keating bared all by taking off the mixed-reviewed, chestnut-hued wig, along with her faux eyelashes. The move was quickly followed…