culture
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Bey-nefactor: Beyoncé Quietly Funded Housing Complex for Homeless in Houston
It turns out that Beyoncé has been a silent benefactor to the less fortunate in her hometown all along, according to Music.Mic. The renowned musician was recently outed by her pastor for giving some $7 million over the past five years to fund a housing complex for the homeless—the Knowles-Temenos Place Apartments—in Houston. “She is…
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Tenn. Mom Sues School After Daughter Claims Teammates Called Her N-Word
A furious Tennessee mom is suing the Sumner County Schools because, she says, the system did not do enough to stop the racist taunts and tirades against her daughter, News Channel 5 reports. Wanda Rice of Hendersonville is claiming that her daughter Shannon, who was a student at the Hendersonville High School and a member…
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Young Mom Suffocates Infant After Reaching ‘Breaking Point’
A young New York mother is facing murder charges after suffocating her infant son to death by wrapping him in a sheet and waiting hours before taking him to the hospital, DNAinfo reports. Nicole Kelly, 22, reportedly told investigators that she was having trouble raising the 11-month-old alone. “I reached my breaking point; I didn’t…
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Jerry Sandusky’s Son Tells Oprah His Story of Abuse: ‘At Bedtime, His Ritual Began’
Matt Sandusky, the adopted son of former Penn State assistant coach and convicted serial child molester Jerry Sandusky, will appear in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey on July 17 in which he reportedly discusses his personal account of sexual abuse he suffered from Sandusky. According to Philly.com, this will be the first television interview…
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Husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Gets 8 Years in Prison
Apollo Nida, husband of Phaedra Parks, the Southern-fried lawyer who stars on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison, the Associated Press reports. Nida, 35, was also ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution to victims of the stolen-check-and-tax-return scheme in which Nida was…
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Man Beaten to Death in San Antonio Amtrak Station
“I feel like killing someone.” That is what 21-year-old Michael Joseph Fobbs allegedly said as he paused, only for a minute, in his brutal beating of a 56-year-old Texas man in a San Antonio Amtrak station, Kens5.com reports. With those words, he continued the fatal barrage with his fists in front of a crowd at…
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It’s Time to Stop Asking Whether Women Can Have It All
Can women have it all? If you’re a working woman, you’ve read your fair share of inconclusive articles that seek to answer this sphinxlike mystery. This topic comes up as a national discussion with only slightly less frequency than those “why women—never men—are soooo single” articles. This time the question of women having it all…
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Calling a Black Girl’s Hair Cotton Candy: Not Cool, Right?
Hopefully you can help me. My daughters are African American and attend a predominantly Caucasian-Hispanic school. Their friends touch their hair and comment on their hair and tell them their hair looks like cotton candy. My daughter came home and told me and said, “Everyone loves cotton candy; that’s so cool.” But is it really? How do I address issues like…
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The Phenomenal Women of Freedom Summer
Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure that African Americans in Mississippi could exercise their right to vote. But without the tireless work of these eight dedicated women, the movement as we know it wouldn’t have been the…
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Minneapolis Locals Slam Bar Louie Dress Code as Covertly Racist
Bar Louie, located in uptown Minneapolis, has been accused of implementing a dress code that has drawn the ire of some local residents who say it indirectly targets black people, reports Fox 9. The bar’s new policy prohibits attire such as fitted caps, athletic apparel like sports jerseys, ostentatious chains, oversized white T-shirts and other…