Actor Tray Chaney—best known for playing the role of “Poot” on HBO’s landmark cop-drama “The Wire”—and his 18-year-old son, Malachi, were recently caught in a tornado in Locust Grove, Georgia, which is about an hour south of Atlanta.  According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, the F-2 tornado touched down Thursday afternoon,

The cause of death for Alex Foster, a top football player at Baylor University, has been revealed. On Wednesday, May 28, the 18-year-old died unexpectedly in his hometown of Greenville, Mississippi, after he was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, the Clarion-Ledger reported.  According to the outlet, the Greenville Police

Joy Reid is returning to the mic—this time, on her own terms. With the launch of “The Joy Reid Show,” the Emmy-nominated journalist is stepping out from behind the confines of a network news desk and into the podcast world, a space where she can speak as herself, to her

Niko McKnight, a singer and guitarist who also happens to be the estranged son of R&B star Brian McKnight, has reportedly died after a battle with cancer. The news was confirmed by the brother of Brian, Claude McKnight, in a video posted to TikTok on May 29. The date Niko

Audra McDonald has responded after Patti LuPone said the two were not friends. Earlier this week, in a sit-down with the New Yorker, LuPone said McDonald was “not a friend.” In a clip from an upcoming interview with Gayle King shared on Thursday, May 29, by CBS Mornings, the 54-year-old

Whether you were born on the island or were raised in the arms of someone who was, there is an inexplicable yearning that Haitians across the diaspora share. A desire to return to the country they once called home, or being able to experience the version of Haiti their relatives

Smokey Robinson has filed a defamation lawsuit against four former housekeepers who accused him of rape and prompted a police investigation. Robinson and his wife, Frances Robinson, filed the counterclaim Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the women and their lawyers, whose allegations, they say, were “fabricated in an extortionate

President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Now a federal court has thrown a roadblock in his path. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked the 1977 International

In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who has sold African literature at the Nuria Bookstore for more than 30 years in Nairobi, said he enjoyed reading Ngũgĩ’s writing and is sad

As Detroit Opera officials made plans last fall to bring a production based on the Central Park Five to their 2025 lineup, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump loomed large and just off stage. The opera puts to music the story of five Black and Latino teens imprisoned for the 1989 rape