Will Smith, depending on your point of view, is raising a few eyebrows with his recent comments about racism in the USA. The award winning actor was on “The Tonight Show” Thursday to promote his new film, “Suicide Squad.” During the interview, host Jimmy Fallon asked Smith for his thoughts on the Republican and Democratic […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota prosecutor said Friday that he won’t step aside but will add a special prosecutor to his team while deciding whether to charge a police officer in the fatal shooting of a black motorist whose girlfriend recorded the immediate aftermath of the shooting in a live video on Facebook. […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Black Lives Matter activists in New York are protesting the arrest of an anti-violence advocate who was taken into custody while making a video of two officers frisking a handcuffed motorist. Maurice Crawley was standing across the street from a traffic stop in Syracuse, streaming the video live on his Facebook […]
DALLAS (AP) — A police officer in the small Texas town where Sandra Bland was pulled over and jailed says the county’s top prosecutors threatened to end his career if he came forward with what he says is evidence of wrongdoing, an accusation the prosecutors deny. Among the things Prairie View officer Michael Kelley said […]
Queen Latifah lends her voice to the box-office franchise Ice Age: Collision Course alongside Ray Romano, Keke Palmer, Wanda Sykes and more. The story follows the journey of the animals in the Ice Age World who are desperately trying to save their world from ending. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts are protesting a mayor’s refusal to remove a Black Lives Matter banner that’s hanging over city hall. Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone has declined repeated requests by the city police officers’ union to replace the banner with one that reads “All Lives Matter.” The banner has been up for […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the case against officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was injured in police custody (all times local): 3:10 p.m. Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis says the state’s attorney’s decision to drop the remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers was a thoughtful one […]
Hoopla and celebration gave way to somber moments as the convention showcased “mothers of the movement” — women whose children died in gun violence. Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teen killed in 2012, said that no mother “would have signed up” for the assignment. Fulton said Clinton has the compassion to […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge on Monday chose a monitor team to oversee reforms of Ferguson’s policing and court system, a process expected to cost the St. Louis suburb more than $1 million. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry announced that Squire Patton Boggs, a law firm based in Cleveland, was picked from four […]
Michael Jordan, the man widely considered the greatest basketball player in NBA history and the lone African-American majority owner of a franchise, has decided to speak out on the country’s growing racial and social unrest, according to The UnDefeated. “As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of […]
The charges sound foolish, but do they sound familiar? Ramsey Orta was also arrested after filming Eric Garner's death.
The league also stressed that will spend the Olympic Games break improving how they will address societal issues down the road.
