Top News
Katina Powell, a self-described former escort at the center of a sex scandal involving the Louisville men’s basketball team, is the target of a new lawsuit from the women she claimed to have pimped to recruits at sex parties, reports ESPN.com. Five women claim that Powell – in her tell-all book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball […]
A violent threat has been made against students at Howard University by an anonymous person claiming to be a University of Missouri student, reports WNEW. The threat posted to a web forum Wednesday night reads, “I left MU yesterday because I couldn’t put up with it anymore. I go home to MD and what do […]
The Huffington Post interviewed four black students at the University of Missouri about their experiences on campus and their encounters with racism. “Cultural insensitivity, racial slurs and de facto segregation are the common threads minority students say separate the 7 percent of black students from the 77 percent white students that make up the school’s […]
Weeks after accusations were made against two women for sexually assaulting a man inside a gas station, the victim is speaking out on what happened that day. In an interview with Washington D.C.’s FOX 5DC, the man, who asked not to be identified, stated that the incident occurred when he was getting gas at the […]
The funeral of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, the Chicago boy who was fatally shot last week, still leaves the family numb and stunned by the what some are calling one of the worst crimes in a long time. The BBC.com reports: The Reverend Michael Pfleger told mourners it was “a new low for Chicago” and that the […]
Two South Carolina men picked the wrong house to rob this week after a teenage boy defended his home, killing one of the two men trying to break in. Post and Courier reports: He killed one of them in an exchange of gunfire, and the second suspect was later arrested, according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s […]
Updated at 10:33am CST RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Three Virginia police officers repeatedly used stuns guns on a man who later died in their custody, according to recently released video that has brought new attention to the case from May 2013. The video, first obtained by MSNBC, shows the officers in South Boston, Virginia, repeatedly […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A man with a long history of pretending to be a transit worker and commandeering subway trains for joy rides was arrested Wednesday after stealing a commercial passenger bus, police said. Darius McCollum was arrested by officers who spotted the Greyhound bus traveling down a street in Brooklyn, police said. They […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A woman charged in the death of her infant daughter — who authorities say was killed by an 8-year-old boy — disputes allegations that she left the children home alone, her attorney said Wednesday. Police say Katerra Marsha Lewis, 26, and a friend left the 8-year-old boy to watch over five […]
There has not been a lot said about this rape trial. It’s a quiet case about the former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who was accused of raping and sexually assaulting more than a dozen women–mainly Black–while he was on duty. I’m thinking the reason why our community is not absolutely livid is, the […]
(Silver Spring, MD) Radio One mourns the passing of our friend and colleague, Tony Washington, VP of Advertising Sales for Reach Media. It is hard to think of Radio One and not think of Tony Washington. He joined Radio One in 1991 when the company had just two radio stations in Washington, DC rising to […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man says he was frightened into pleading guilty for a murder he didn’t commit after police dangled him off a bridge three decades ago, brought charges against his parents and threatened him with the death penalty. Timothy R. Johnson was 22 in September 1984 when police arrested him and charged […]
