UPDATE 3:00pm CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person, sending at least 26 others to hospitals and ratcheting up tension in an increasingly violent confrontation. The chaos boiled over at what is believed to be […]
ATLANTA (AP) — On the eve of their first preseason game, the Atlanta Falcons addressed their biggest issue coming into training camp. Devonta Freeman has a new contract. The defending NFC champions agreed to terms Wednesday on a five-year, $41.25 million extension with Freeman, making him the highest-paid running back in the league in terms […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Not backing down, President Donald Trump warned Kim Jong Un‘s government on Thursday to “get their act together” or face extraordinary trouble, and suggested he had been too mild when he vowed to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea if it continued to threaten the U.S. “Maybe that statement […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white former Tulsa police officer who resigned after being acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed motorist Terence Crutcher was sworn in Thursday as a reserve deputy sheriff in a neighboring county. Wearing a firearm on her hip and dressed in a Rogers County Sheriff’s Office uniform, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is headed to the supermarket aisle with her own line of refrigerated soups and side dishes. The media mogul teamed up with food giant Kraft Heinz to launch the line after creating a joint venture earlier this year. The new brand, called O, That’s Good!, will offer comfort foods […]
Healthy relationships require realistic evaluation. Whether you’re evaluating a relationship with a significant other, a family member, a friendship or a professional connection, Judge Mablean’s new book Look Deep Before You Leap will increase your awareness of red flags. It will challenge you to face the flags you have chosen to ignore. In these pages […]
A longtime pastor of a Texas church has decided to remain in the Southern Baptist Convention despite its historic issues of racial diversity and its embrace of the alt-right. The pastor, who did successfully help get a resolution passed condemning the alt-right at this year’s convention, believes that his presence in the group may help […]
The family of Gabriel Taye, an eight-year-old boy who committed suicide after being bullied at school, is suing Cincinnati Public Schools. Taye was a student at Carson Elementary, and his family claims that the school withheld information that could have saved his life. On January 24, 2017 Taye was assaulted in his school’s bathroom and […]
Spike Lee tweets out flier for Kaepernick rally to be held late-August in New York City.
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. has renewed its original drama series, Greenleaf and has launched a new podcast version of its SuperSoul Sunday series. Greenleaf, from Lionsgate and executive producers Winfrey and Clement Virgo will return for a third season, with the promotion of Rick Fox (journalist Darius Nash) to series regular. The second half of season two […]
Here’s some good stuff for ya. One of Donald Trump’s most feared critics, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters stopped by “The View” this morning and before she left, church broke out! Well, before that happened, she had what’s being described as a fiery roundtable discussion about White House leaks, impeaching Donald Trump, and more. Of course, why else […]
A Black woman is going viral for getting down on one knee and proposing to her man. The video shows the woman pulling the ring out of her pocketbook, then kneeling before her unsuspecting boyfriend, who joyfully reacts like a giddy woman. He then reaches down to embrace her with a kiss before accepting the […]
