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https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/1072567652483325957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1072567652483325957&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc13.com%2Fex-minister-gets-prison-for-stealing-from-first-baptist-church%2F5340226%2F A former minister who admitted to stealing more than $800,000 from Houston’s First Baptist Church has been sentenced to a decade behind bars. Jerrell G. Altic, 40, embezzled nearly $1 million from the church over a six-year period that ended in November 2017. Prosecutors and Altic’s attorney both say that he admitted to stealing […]
The gangsters of the 1970s are fading away. Nicky Barnes, one of the biggest heroin dealers of his time in Harlem, has died. He was 78. Due to Barnes being in witness protection for well over 40 years, news of his health wasn’t reported to anyone. It wasn’t until the New York Times spoke to one of […]
Leslie Jones has called for a boycott of Sephora following a not so pleasant encounter between staffers at a New York location and the comedian’s make-up artist. Jones recently took to Twitter with a story about her makeup artist, and the wife of her best friend, in which she details what went down when the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Seniors in major metropolitan areas, especially in the Northeast and around Washington, D.C., are more likely to continue working past age 65 than those in other areas around the country, according to an analysis of Census data by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. “Those are the areas where all […]
Wendy Williams is out here living her best life since announcing her divorce from Kevin Hunter. We’ve seen her with the Kardashians and Blac Chyna, kicking it stage side at concerts and flexing her bikini body. Now the 54-year-old appears to be hinting that she has a new man in her life. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByeGyiVBR2E/ The […]
It’s time again for the American Black Film Festival and this year it’s turning 23 and celebrating in sunny Miami, Florida. 23 years ago Jeff Friday and some of Hollywood’s biggest names like Spike Lee, Halle Berry and John Singleton held the very first festival in Mexico. Friday has enjoyed watching the festival grow over […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man has been convicted of murder in a drug-related robbery killing in Las Vegas after initially being identified as a suspect because a friend of the victim thought to check and preserve a Snapchat message. Jurors on Thursday convicted 25-year-old Montrell Russum of murder, robbery and conspiracy in the 2018 […]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A former University of Florida football player, Earl Antonio “Tony” Joiner, has been arrested and charged with killing his wife in a case dating to 2016, police said. A former safety at Florida under then-Coach Urban Meyer, Joiner was arrested Saturday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death […]
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was hospitalized Monday following surgery for a gunshot wound after being ambushed by a man in a bar in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said. Dominican National Police Director Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte said Ortiz was at the Dial Bar and Lounge […]
Bushwick Bill, the diminutive, one-eyed rapper who with the Geto Boys helped put the South’s stamp on rap with hits like “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” and “Six Feet Deep,” died on Sunday at the age of 52, according to his publicist. Dawn P. told The Associated Press that the rapper died Sunday at 9:35 […]
We are covering the benefits of a college degree this morning. Why is this on your mind? We often talk about the costs associated with college. Tuition prices have risen steeply in recent decades and student loans burdens now accompany millions of Americans after their studies. These concerns have led many to ask whether the […]
Tom Joyner and friends are hitting cities across the country to celebrate 25 years of the Tom Joyner Morning Show. The One More Time Experience (OMTE) hit Cleveland and Indianapolis on Friday, June 07, and 08 2019 and it was epic! Congress Woman Marcia Fudge declared June 7th Tom Joyner Day, a day of celebration […]
