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New York City Mayor Eric Adams' solution to a rise in gun violence in NYC is to unleash a previously-dismantled special plainclothes police unit that has been accused of racial profiling to target guns and street gangs.
With 52% of Atlanta’s population being black, one could assume all the city's growth means black folks in Atlanta should be winning, but sadly they are not.
Jacob Panetta just got himself booted from his position as a defenseman for the Jacksonville Icemen of the East Coast Hockey League for making monkey gestures at South Carolina Stingrays defenseman Jordan Subban, who is Black.
James Iannazzo, who was arrested after he got himself caught on a viral video launching into a violent and racist tirade directed at a group of teenage employees at Robeks smoothie shop in Fairfield, Connecticut, wads fired as a top-ranking Merrill Lynch broker after the incident.
Many of the final social media posts from Ian Alexander Jr., Regina King's son and a DJ, singer and producer who performed as Desduné before dying by suicide, eagerly look toward the future. But others offered more cryptic messages.
Police in Luray, Virginia quickly forgave and didn't arrest Amelia King, an anti-mask parent shown on video at a Page County School Board meeting threatening to bring "loaded" guns to her kids' school in protest of the mask mandate she opposes.
'Soul Purpose', the musical stage play is coming back to Houston, Texas adding gospel singer Kathy Taylor and the new lead singer of 'The Temptations' Tony Grant to the cast.
Ex-Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is set to be released from prison after having served less than half of the 81-month sentence he got three years ago after he was found guilty of murdering Laquan McDonald by shooting the teenager 16 times.
Lusia "Lucy" Harris-Stewart, the legendary hall of fame hopps star and first-ever woman drafted by the NBA whose largely unknown life story is told in an Academy Award-contending documentary called "The Queen Of Basketball," has died at the age of 66.
University of Pennsylvania graduate student Mackenzie Fierceton won the Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. But she lost the scholarship after it came out that she lied on her application about being poor, abused and growing up in foster care.
The continued effort to keep Acoli behind bars seems directly tied to the highly political nature of Shakur's case and remaining outside of the reach of U.S. authorities.
Liz Edelkind said she was with her 10-year-old son, her husband and two others, as they were on their way home from a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden when she asked a white couple if they could change seats so her family could all sit together—and that's when the couple attacked them.