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Source: Facebook.com/robertswomack / Facebook.com/robertswomack On April 4, 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer Christopher Schurr shot and killed 26-year-old Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya, who had fled a traffic stop and struggled with the officer over his taser, which, many do not believe justified Schurr placing his gun to the back of Lyoya’s head and pulling the trigger. Schurr was fired from the Grand Rapids Police Department and charged with second-degree […]

Source: The Washington Post / Getty Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just can’t keep confidential military information out of the group chat, because the highest-ranking member in Trump’s administration to have questionable tattoos, has apparently done it again.  That’s right, Hegseth, the man who’s responsible for keeping American secrets, was somehow in a group chat with an editor from the Atlantic and was spilling all the war tea. Now, he has […]

Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty Devin Springer’s recent detention and interrogation by U.S. Border Protection and Customs agents took a page out of an old playbook used to repress dissent and punish outspoken Black leaders. Last week, agents detained and interrogated Springer—a Black, queer, Muslim organizer and journalist known by friends and colleagues as Musa— upon their return from traveling to a sanctioned trip to Cuba.  Springer shared details of […]

Source: Sean Gardner / Getty An alleged audio recording has intensified the legal battle between NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe and a woman accusing him of sexual assault. The recording was released by the accuser’s attorney Tony Buzbee. It purportedly captures Sharpe threatening to “choke the sh*t” out of the woman during a heated phone conversation. In the exchange, Sharpe allegedly responds to the woman’s plea not to be […]

Paras Griffin A lot can happen in a life that spans over seven decades, so it would only make sense to put forth every effort that assures each and every one of those days will matter for something. For Cathy Hughes, the consummate chairwoman here at Radio One and Urban One, it’s been her only way of living for the better part of 77 years. On her milestone birthday today […]