Black America Web celebrates Black Music Month by saluting influential icons in the music industry
Once news spread of the former football star's release the internet could not deal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether by whim or design, President Donald Trump keeps adding fuel to his incendiary Twitter battle against the media. The press is an easy target for the Republican president, and one his supporters love to hate. But the escalating conflict has diverted attention not just from Trump’s failures but his claimed successes […]
President Trump tweeted (and since deleted), introducing a new word and we're like: what IS this?
Social media can be helpful in recording wrongs, but a parking lot paddling this week doesn’t merit charges, say Pensacola police. A white woman with a Black child in a store parking lot went viral when another woman recorded her paddling the child. But as the child appeared uninjured and corporal punishment is legal in […]
If the name Jeremy Meeks doesn’t ring a bell, maybe his mug shot from 2014 will. https://www.instagram.com/p/BO5gbX7BcAm/ Yes, that guy. Nicknamed “Jail Bae,” Meeks had all of social media swooning when his mugshot from the Stockton Police Department went viral. Meeks was facing federal gun charges in California at the time. After serving his […]
Facebook slaying suspect Steve Stephens was undone by a 20-piece Chicken McNuggets and an order of fries. The man who police say shot a Cleveland retiree at random and posted video of the killing on Facebook pulled up to the drive-thru window of a McDonald’s restaurant outside Erie, Pennsylvania, and waited for his order. It […]
The power of forgiveness among African-Americans in the midst of devastating tragedy is a remarkable testament to faith. I was struck by the way Robert Godwin’s children seemed so at ease as they spoke softly about forgiving Steve Stephens for senselessly killing their father last week on a Cleveland sidewalk and then callously uploading the […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — In a rambling video, Steve Stephens said, “I snapped, I just snapped.” But as the manhunt dragged on Monday for the man accused of posting Facebook footage of himself killing a retiree, police were unable to explain what set him off. “Only Steve knows that,” Cleveland police Chief Calvin Williams said as […]
A tragedy hit Shaniqua Stephens when she found her 13-year-old son dead in the bathroom on Monday. According to 11 Alive, Stephens had just seen her son, Malachi Hemphill, taking out the trash when she “heard a big boom.” “I just knew that it was something that was wrong,” she said. Stephens and her daughter rushed […]
The irony is delicious.
It all unfolded after Burgos and a friend posted a video of the two of them bobbin' their heads to Xscape's "Just Kickin It," which begged an epic response from Tiny.
