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It’s always satisfying when a violent officer faces consequences for being unnecessarily brutal during arrests. That’s especially true when a police chief publicly chastises the officer and shows body camera footage to the public, as in the case of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Sgt. Eric Huxley.Read more...

Readers, I’m conflicted.Read more...

Rapper Tyga turned himself in early Tuesday to the Los Angeles Police Department following a domestic violence allegation brought forth from his ex-girlfriend Camaryn Swanson.Read more...

“Every time I try to leave, something keeps pullin’ me back, me back…”

U.S Army 2nd Lt. Deja Harrison is suing a New Orleans casino after she was denied entry by employees who thought her military ID was fake.Read more...

Lt. Colonel Kristal Turner-Childs became the first Black woman in the history of the Pennsylvania State Police to be named deputy commissioner of staff, when Gov. Tom Wolf confirmed her appointment on Tuesday. .Read more...

It wouldn’t be a proper J.R. Smith story if it didn’t include a bizarre plot twist, and in his efforts to keep that streak alive, the former NBA star personally ensured that his first collegiate golf tournament stayed on brand.Read more...

There is no way to know if Jon Gruden is racist, homophobic, sexist or prejudiced in any way.Read more...

In Minnesota, a group of Black parents are suing the city’s school system, claiming that their children experienced unfair treatment, racial insensitivity and bullying from classmates and faculty.

Fans of Wendy Williams and her eponymous talk show will have to continue waiting for the popular host’s return.

A Black couple will receive $75,000 from the city of Louisville after they claimed cops pulled them over in 2018 and searched them because they were Black and driving a nice car. The catch is that they can’t say a word about it.Read more...

A Des Moines protester was found guilty of first-degree theft for stealing a flyer from a Minneapolis police officer’s back pocket last summer.

If you live or drove through Simsbury, Conn., you may have passed the 288-acre former tobacco farm known to locals as “Meadowood.” That sprawling area will now be preserved for future generations because it’s where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. toiled the fields as a college student.Read more...

Trump supporters are the worst.

The circumstances surrounding Winston Boogie Smith Jr.’s death in June are still fuzzy, but that doesn’t matter to the Crow Wing County Attorney’s Office, which announced that the officers involved wouldn’t be charged on Monday.Read more...

Forget Dr. Fauci. It looks like Blac Chyna is doing what needs to be done when it comes to encouraging others to get the vaccine.Read more...

At this point, I’m ready for Texas and Florida to Thelma and Louise themselves off a cliff and end this slow and painstaking process of hearing how both states are trying to bring back scurvy.

In today’s installment of “well, that escalated quickly,” we have mercurial NBA superstar Kyrie Irving, who went from having Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash awkwardly attempt to explain the seven-time All-Star’s absence on Sunday...

It’s been a minute since we got an update on Tiger Woods, but I’m happy to deliver some good news.Read more...

A trans employee at Netflix who spoke out against Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special, The Closer, in a Twitter thread has been suspended.

The state of Michigan has told a majority-Black city not to use tap water for drinking, bathing, or cooking “out of an abundance of caution” because of lead contamination. Residents of Benton Harbor, three hours west of Detroit, have been dealing with poisoned water for at least three years, and experts say that state…Read more...

Typically, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but unfortunately for current former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, he hit send on that racist email everyone is talking about well before Raiders owner Mark Davis and his tenacious bowl cut came galloping along with a $100 million contract.Read more...

A Black paraplegic man who was pulled out of his car by a Dayton police officer during a traffic stop plans to sue the police department. Clifford Owensby’s lawyer, James Willis, said that it will take some time to investigate the case, but that he plans on filing a civil suit next month, according to CNN

Homeownership is when someone owns a home.Read more...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted preexisting issues like health disparities and job insecurity in America, but the government’s response to the nationwide housing crisis was glaringly obvious from the very first shutdown.Read more...

While school officials are arguing in board meetings about teaching critical race theory and the truth about American history, Gov. Gavin Newsom just passed a law making ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement in California.Read more...

What you doing? Getting hype about Silk Sonic’s new album dropping soon.Read more...

The Weeknd may be a self-proclaimed “Starboy,” but according to the United Nations, it seems he’s a philanthropic one too.Read more...

In Chesterfield County, Virginia, Michael Mason is doing his best to help with America’s shortage of school bus drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fisk University celebrated the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ 150th anniversary last week.

Calls for the removal of monuments that honor racist and problematic themes in American history have resulted in school names being changed and statues in capital cities coming down across the country. After last summer’s racial reckoning, people everywhere are finally recognizing just how distasteful it is to have…Read more...

Peace of Mind With Taraji, the Facebook Watch series dedicated to destigmatizing mental health in the Black community and beyond, premiered its second season on Monday.Read more...

I’m not big on the hate-speech scene, so there must be a book or something of outlandish claims to make during speeches that only Trump and other elected officials who follow Trump have access to.

City officials will meet this week to discuss a lawsuit filed by Boynton Beach’s first Black female firefighter after she was depicted as a white person on a public mural.

In thismultipart series, HBCU alums share their favorite moments from their alma mater as a testament to what these institutions have meant to them.Read more...

I don’t know where they get this stuff from, but apparently, white people who voted for Trump are worried that Starbucks won’t have pumpkin spice in October. I guess they are concerned that the re-released episodes of Friends will have actual Black people living in New York City, and that hot sauce will become the…Read more...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is under fire after video of him surfaced on social media disparaging the LGBTQ+ community this summer.Read more...

Two women have filed a lawsuit against a beach town police chief in South Carolina after he allegedly sent them nearly 20 unsolicited and inappropriate images that were racist and sexist in nature during a law enforcement conference back in November of 2019 in Myrtle Beach.

In today’s dose of “All-caps YIKES,” a North Carolina eighth grade teacher has resigned after a “racially insensitive” lesson sparked outrage from parents.

Body camera footage released on Friday showed police in Dayton. Ohio forcibly removing a Black paraplegic motorist from his vehicle and throwing him to the ground as he repeatedly told them he can’t use his legs.

Dang, people are still out here listening to Chocolate Factory? In the year of our Lord 2021?

Real estate agent Eric Brown, along with his client Roy Thorne and Thorne’s teenage son Samuel, have filed a federal suit stemming from an August incident where Wyoming, Mich. police ordered them out of a house they were touring and placed them in handcuffs.

Kenosha, Wis. police Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last year, will not face federal civil rights charges in court.

You know what they say, dear reader: “What’s emailed in the dark will eventually come to light.” Or ... something like that.

Tina Turner said, “Viva la money.”

“OK. Alright. That’s fine. OK.”

A woman is facing a civil rights violation after allegedly threatening a 9-year-old Black boy who was playing in a park with her son in Dover, N.H. The state attorney general’s office filed the complaint in Strafford County Superior Court alleging that Kristina Graper, 51, threatened the boy and called him racial…Read more...

Maya Angelou, the award-winning poet and social activist, will be honored along with four other women from various ethnic backgrounds on new quarters set to be released in 2022. The U.S. Mint announced the coin designs in a news release on Wednesday. All five women are recognized as trailblazers in American history.Read more...

The Oregon Court of Appeals has reversed the murder conviction and ordered a retrial for Jesse Lee Johnson, a Black man who has been fighting to prove his innocence for 20 years.Read more...

New body camera footage shows Minneapolis Police officers shooting rubber bullets at protesters while joking about “hunting” activists. It happened just five days after George Floyd was murdered.