"#MyLifeMatters" pays to homage the victims and reminds us what we all lose when our precious lives are cut short.
NEW YORK (AP) — Social activism is coming at a cost for WNBA players. The WNBA has fined the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury and Indiana Fever and their players for wearing black warm up shirts in the wake of recent shootings by and against police officers. All three teams were fined $5,000 and each […]
Nick Cannon says he won’t step foot into a voting booth this November…unless a certain miracle can take place across America. “I ain’t voting until black lives matter,” he told Howard Stern on Monday, adding, “There’s a segment of the community that actually don’t care about voting because they’re too concerned with staying alive.” […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A steady stream of mourners filed past the casket of Alton Sterling, the 37-year-old black man who was shot to death by police as he was pinned to the pavement outside a convenience store. The grieving paused Friday in front of Sterling’s open casket, which was adorned with music notes […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Faith leaders and musicians delivered messages of hope Thursday at a funeral for a black Minnesota man who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Paul police officer. Mourners filled the 3,000-seat Cathedral of St. Paul to pay their respects to 32-year-old Philando Castile, whose white casket arrived and left […]
From Erica Garner‘s point of view, things got so messy at the taping of an ABC News town hall event with President Obama that she walked out in protest. She says the network broke its promise to highlight her questions. The daughter of Eric Garner, the man who was put in a chokehold and killed by […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The final moments before Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul revolved around a gun he was licensed to carry, trained to use safely and instructed to tell authorities about when stopped. But just how he informed the officer — and whether the […]
Finesse Mitchell is performing at the Orlando Improv this weekend! The funny man talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about love and marriage, what really happened at the ESPY Awards and #BlackLivesMatter. Are Ciara and Russell really happy? “I couldn’t tell if he was happy with Ciara. Sometimes you look at couples and think they’re […]
To say things boiled over at an Atlanta Town Hall on Tuesday (07-12-16) would be putting it mildly. Fortunately, actor/singer Tyrese stepped in to help tamp down the temperature between singer Lyfe Jennings and rapper/activist David Banner. The two seemed to be on a collision course as they both rose to their feet in the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A candlelight vigil was held in Chicago’s Federal Plaza late Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail cell after a traffic stop. Bland was pulled over by a Texas state trooper and taken to the Waller County jail […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, one of just two black members of the U.S. Senate and the only black Republican, said Wednesday he has been repeatedly pulled over by law enforcement and was once even stopped by a Capitol Police officer who apparently did not believe he was a senator. “I have […]
The captain posted on Facebook after protesters in South Carolina blocked a roadway off of I-26 for over one hour during a march in honor of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two men fatally shot by police last week.
