An Alabama woman was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed inside a Waffle House over plastic utensils. Chikesia Clemons, 25, and her friend Canita Adams placed an order at a Waffle House in Mobile, Alabama April 22, according to The Root. When Clemons asked for utensils an employee told her that she’d be charged 50 cents in addition to what they were […]
A mother of two out of Fort Worth, Texas has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegally voting in the 2016 presidential election while on supervised release serving a fraud conviction. Buzz Feed News reports 43-year-old Crystal Mason was released from jail after serving three years in prison for fraud conviction in 2011. Mason […]
Burt Minor, the chairman of Illinois’ Winfield Township and a Republican candidate for the Illinois Legislature, is refusing to step down amid calls from members of his own party. He allegedly used the N-word several times while speaking with fellow GOP member and attorney general candidate Erika Harold who is black. After asking Harold if […]
103-year-old Ethel Stevenson says the secret to her longevity is her dedication to servicing the community. Stevenson works every day at the Ethel V. Stevenson Senior Center in Ecorse—a building that bears her name to honor her 60-year career at the community center, WJBK reported. Her job is to coordinate senior transportation, and when she […]
The beginning of a new year always brings new dreams and new hopes for people. For some, it brings the new hope and possibility of love and relationships. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with longtime matchmaker Diann Valentine from the Bravo reality show To Rome With Love to give some tips to the ladies that their love awaits […]
On the South Side of Chicago, a 27-year-old woman was shot in the arm while on Facebook live. WGN9 News reports that while in her car the woman got into an argument with another woman in her car. When it reached a climax the second woman pulled out a gun and shot the 27-year-old in the […]
Entrepreneur Dawn Dickinson has created a vending machine that allows anyone to pay for things with their face. That definitely tops a fingerprint scanner. Businesswoman.org reports that Dickinson got her start as a hardware manufacturer making machines for her personal shoe brand. Other entrepreneurs began seeing her machine and asked her to actually market and sell […]
A Black psychology student at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas aced her final exam under extreme conditions: She was in labor.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas police sergeant has been fired for ordering a rookie officer to use a stun gun on a woman who had called for help during a domestic dispute. Fort Worth police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said in an emailed statement that he fired Sgt. Kenneth Pierce on Monday, saying the […]
Kandice Benford is sharing her story about how she developed a severe case of vitiligo across her face right before her wedding day. The disease is the loss of skin color in blotches and is thought to be an autoimmune condition that causes a person’s own immune system to attack cells that make pigment in […]
Now here’s some seriously uplifting news! Captain Tonya Boyd will become the first African-American woman in the New York Fire Department to be the deputy chief on November 2, 2017. Boyd joined the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Services while attending college as a way to pay her tuition. While doing that, she had no idea her […]
A Memphis woman is in jail after admitting to choking and beating her 10-year-old son with an extension cord, but she claims that her son took his own life by stabbing himself in the chest with a kitchen knife. WMC Action News reports that officers were called to the apartment of Robin McKinzie October 30, […]
