Kirk Franklin and GloRilla team up again for new gospel track ‘This Time’
Kirk Franklin and GloRilla are back on the same record. A new collaboration between the two arrived on Friday (Sept. 25) with “This Time,” a gospel song that pairs Franklin’s choir-driven sound with a verse from the Memphis rapper. Franklin was tapped to host this year’s Stellar Awards, while GloRilla has been teasing her second […]
Keke Wyatt allegedly threatened to shoot a woman during custody exchange, warrant says
R&B singer Keke Wyatt allegedly pulled out a handgun and threatened to shoot a woman after an argument broke out during a custody exchange in Georgia, an arrest warrant claims. Wyatt was arrested last week on several charges, three of which she disputes. The incident happened Sept. 20 after police responded to a reported domestic […]
Police Say Tasia Fortune’s Hanging Was ‘Staged’
Source: GoFundMe / Etta Avolio The mysterious hanging of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune is coming closer to closure. On Friday, a police detective testified that Fortune was first killed in a dispute over drugs, and her body subsequently hung from a tree in a “staged” lynching, according to the Washington Post. The Post reports that “Fortune […]
California Sheriff Ordered To Return Over 600,000 Ballots
Source: MediaNews Group/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images / Getty It’s crazy how the people who keep yapping about “protecting election security” are the ones who keep infringing on election security. On Thursday, the California Supreme Court ordered Chad Bianco, the Republican sheriff of Riverside County, to return nearly 650,000 ballots he seized from […]
FAFO: Credit Union CEO Out After Posting Pic Of Her Family In ‘Lake America’ Shirts
Source: Jane Smith / other In today’s episode of How TF You Let Trump Get You Fired On Your Day Off?, the CEO of a U.S.-based credit union is no longer the CEO of a U.S.-based credit union because she went full MAGA when you never go full MAGA, by posting an AI-generated photo of […]
Black Mississippi State student weighs legal action after bomb threat accusation ends in handcuffs
Zayden Leonard, a 21-year-old student at Mississippi State University, is considering legal action after campus police handcuffed and detained him over a bomb threat allegation, his attorney says, that was false. The incident involving Leonard is the latest in a series of events where Black students have disputed police allegations and force used against them […]
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Concerned Over Supreme Court’s Approval Of ‘Harmful Acts’
Source: The Washington Post / Getty If you’ve spent the last year wondering how far the Supreme Court will go in allowing President Donald Trump to run roughshod over the United States’ foundational principles, you’re not alone. In fact, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has expressed concerns about how the court’s willingness to approve “harmful acts” […]
Rising author Thélyson Orélien removed from major literary race amid AI and plagiarism allegations
Thélyson Orélien’s rapid rise in France’s literary scene was interrupted when the Académie Goncourt removed his novel, “It Was Either That Or Die,” from consideration amid allegations of the use of artificial intelligence and plagiarism. The decision came just days after Orélien won the 2026 Prix du Roman Fnac, a major French literary award selected […]
120 years later, Atlanta honors the lives lost in the 1906 Race Massacre
In 1906, years before Tulsa became known as home to one of the deadliest massacres of Black men and women in United States history, a similar race massacre befell Atlanta. Now the Fulton County Commission Board has established official days of remembrance for the Atlanta Race Massacre, as the four-day event from September 22, 1906, […]
Charles Booker’s Kentucky campaign connects the fight against racism with the fight for affordability
Charles Booker is aware that he is a Black man and Democrat running for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, a former antebellum enslaver state that is more than 84% white and has voted for every Republican candidate since 1992. It’s for those exact reasons why Booker, the Democratic nominee seeking to succeed longtime Republican […]