A Brooklyn judge officially exonerated John Bunn, 41, after it was proven that a disgraced cop tainted the evidence in his 1991 case.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When the call went out for a doctor on board, the U.S. surgeon general says he gladly stepped in to help with a medical emergency on a commercial flight. Dr. Jerome Adams, an anesthesiologist, said he assisted someone on a Delta Air Lines jet as he prepared to fly Wednesday to […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News, is being honored in his hometown of Philadelphia with a mural. Mural Arts Philadelphia says it will dedicate the work on Saturday in the west Philadelphia neighborhood where Bradley grew up. It was designed by artist Ernel Martinez and […]
It's not looking good for Kels right now.
Three white men out of have been charged and arrested for killing and dismembering the bodies of two Black men in Oklahoma City. When 21-year-olds Alize Ramon Smith and Jarron Moreland went missing on April 14 friends and family members went around their Oklahoma City neighborhood hanging flyers according to WJLA News. Just four days later, officers of Moore County Police Department found their […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the city Wednesday for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs. The men’s lawyer and Mayor Jim Kenney outlined the agreement to The Associated Press. “I […]
Over the last few years, the nation has witnessed that a lack of care about mental health could result in the lives of many lost. Talking about mental health isn’t always easy and in African-American communities, there is usually a stigma attached to it. However, New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray wants to turn that stigma around and make […]
4/25/18-Philadelphia was lit yesterday as Meek Mill walked out of prison onto a helicopter. Huggy says they were so happy that it was like T’Challa returning to Wakanda. But he also reminds us that Mill represents a lot of young Black men caught up in the justice system. READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: GET THE […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer. He thought nothing of it when he and his business partner, Donte Robinson, were approached at their table and were asked if they needed help. The 23-year-old entrepreneurs declined, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias training for nearly 175,000 workers. How did a Starbucks visit go so […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Starbucks sells itself as a community gathering spot as much as a coffeehouse, a welcoming place with comfortable chairs for lingering, trendy music and Wi-Fi. That’s one reason the arrest of two black men who were sitting in a Starbucks struck a nerve for so many: They were doing exactly what people […]
If there are two things I know, it’s Starbucks and the struggle to find public restrooms in a big city. You may have heard about the two men, as yet unidentified, who were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks this week for what is being deemed “resistant loitering.” When the two men, who I shouldn’t have […]
