The devastating, untimely death of Keneeka Jenkins sent shock waves through the social media community, spawning the hashtag #JusticeForKeneeka.
Maybe it was coincidence, but after 33-year-old Makeva Jenkins boasted on Facebook about her financial success, she was killed shortly afterwards by a man who broke into her home. The man, 19-year-old Joevan Joseph was arrested Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting Jenkins. Joseph has been charged with first-degree murder in the June 29 killing. He claimed he […]
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the social media posts resembled a wanted poster or a missing-persons flyer: Photographs of men were arranged in rows, seeking their names and employers. But the Facebook post wasn’t circulated by law enforcement in the search for a suspect or by relatives looking for a missing loved one. It […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A social media campaign to derail HBO’s planned modern-day Southern slavery drama quickly caught fire, prompting the cable channel to ask detractors to withhold judgment until they see “Confederate.” The campaign, with “OscarsSoWhite” activist April Reign among its organizers, asked people to tweet to HBO with the hashtag “NoConfederate” during Sunday’s […]
Ivanka? Melania? Sprint? When will someone take this man's phone away for good?
Shortly after ESPN First Take personality Stephen A Smith joked that Lamar Odom “was on crack” when he got signed to the New York Knicks in 2014, Odom returned fire through a letter written by his legal counsel. In case you missed his comments, Smith said: “[Jackson’s] very first move as executive was to sign […]
Nasir Andrews is only 9 years old but she’s pleading for someone to help stop the racial bullying she’s experiencing in her fourth-grade classroom. She is not suffering silently. “I don’t feel like anybody is helping or cares,” Nasir posted in a heartrending video on Facebook. “I want kids and adults to know my story. […]
A divorced mother of four is going viral for striking her daughter in the face after the teen “bossed up” on her. It appears the young girl had been fighting another girl moments before the incident occurred. https://www.facebook.com/100010377586095/videos/vb.100010377586095/449042818784967/?type=2&theater After receiving polarizing backlash for how she disciplined the young girl, she wrote a lengthy post on […]
Could it be that slowly judges and jury’s are deciding prison is not the best or only option for wayward teens? Apparently this was the thought process behind Family Court Judge Robert Coonin’s decision to send Trinity Carr, 17, (pictured, in 2015) to Grace Cottage, a secure residential program, for six months instead of to prison. Coonin […]
Tamar Braxton has extended an olive branch to Tiny and her estranged husband T.I. Ever since she left The Real, Tamar has been at odds with her good girlfriend Tiny. The pair have traded jabs and Tiny‘s mama even jumped into the beef at one point. The tension has all become too much for Tamar, so […]
ATLANTA (AP) — The alarming video of a Georgia teenager livestreaming her own suicide attempt stayed up long enough on Facebook Live for sheriff’s deputies to find and save her — a repeat phenomenon that has prompted mental health experts and Facebook’s CEO to further investigate how they can use social media as a possible […]
Unless you just dropped in from orbiting the moon (and actually, even then) you know that Beyoncè is having her second and third babies. Currently pregnant, with no announced due date, B has been out and about with her hubby, Jay Z and Baby Blue Ivy, and having a good time showing off her pregnant belly on […]
