New Orleans cosmetics mogul Reynell “Supa” Steward, founder and CEO of The Crayon Case, generated $1 million in sales in less than 2 hours on Cyber Monday. It was $1.2 million to be exact. According to blackbusiness.org, The Crayon Case is a cosmetic line for amateur make-up users and aspiring makeup artists. The brand features lipsticks and eyeshadows, […]
A woman who originally told police that her boyfriend shot himself on Christmas eve 2017 has admitted to firing the fatal shot. Dominique Wix, 30, pleaded guilty Tuesday (Nov. 27) to negligent homicide in the death of Akoya Skeith-Teal, 25, according to Nola.com. Skeith-Teal passed away from a gunshot wound to his abdomen on Dec. 24, 2017, in […]
A New Orleans pastor was found guilty Monday of cheating a Hurricane Katrina victim out of Road Home grant money, Nola.com reports. Prosecutors reportedly plan to move forward with additional, similar charges that are still pending. Elijah Mealancon was found guilty of one count of unauthorized use of a movable after a one-day bench trial. Mealancon, […]
A New Orleans man was arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat after telling a restaurant manager that he was about to blow the place up. He told police that he was referring to using the restroom. But the restaurant employees and police took his threat seriously. He is expected to appear before a […]
A man accused of threatening to blow up a New Orleans restaurant on the night of Nov. 13 claimed to police when confronted about the allegation that his words were merely a reference to a bowel movement, NOLA.com reports. According to the warrant, the restaurant’s manager said that Posey approached the food preparation area and […]
Ritisha Martin, 25, allegedly met a man at a New Orleans Jazz Club and exchanged phone numbers with him on the night of Aug. 29. A few hours later, in the early hours of Aug. 30, Martin texted the man and asked if he would meet up with her. She agreed to pick him up, […]
Two individuals held a University of New Orleans student at gunpoint in his on-campus apartment before forcing him to drive to two ATMs and withdraw money Wednesday afternoon, reports The Times-Picayune. At about 1 p.m., the 18-year-old student heard a knock at his door, when he opened it an armed man and woman forced their way […]
A New Orleans man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to strangling and raping his ex-girlfriend at her apartment in 2016. Nola.com reports 51-year-old Terry Fields pleaded guilty as charged to second-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, failure to register as a sex offender and two counts of domestic abuse battery involving strangulation […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A white man who fired a shotgun at three African-Americans amid the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans more than 13 years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to two federal criminal counts. Roland Bourgeois, 55, was indicted in 2010 and originally pleaded not guilty. His case dragged on for years, […]
A new proposal in New Orleans would offer intoxicated people a place to sober up as an alternative to jail, the ER, or just being passed out on the street. According to wwltv.com, some City Council members are in support of a “Short-term Sobriety Center.” The proposed sobering center would hold 20 beds, and serve […]
The owner of a travel agency in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish was arrested after being accused of bilking several dozen 2018 Essence Festival attendees out of tens of thousands of dollars for vacation packages that she didn’t deliver, reports NOLA.com. Nakesia Washington, the 41-year-old owner of OBL Travel LLC., was booked Aug. 2 with theft of more […]
Big Freedia, The Bounce Queen, has been featured on Beyoncé’s last album and had a sample of her voice used in Drake’s Nice For What song. People were surprised that Freedia wasn’t featured in Drake’s video for the song and some felt like it was shade toward the LGBT community. When she realized that Drake […]
