WNBA’s Maya Moore taking second straight season off to focus on freeing inmate
WNBA star Maya Moore is taking off a second straight year from the league to fight for the release of Jonathan Irons, whom she believes is wrongly incarcerated. “I’m in…
Groups seek items they say could exonerate executed inmate
Ledell Lee (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two groups sued a central Arkansas city on Thursday seeking the release of evidence they say could…
Rapper Kodak Black says he is being abused in prison; mother hires Benjamin Crump
Rapper Kodak Black’s mother has hired a prominent lawyer to look into troubling claims that the rapper is being abused by correctional officers and inmates while in federal prison. Marcelene…
Just two months after they wed, Lena Waithe and wife Alana Mayo split
Screenwriter Lena Waithe and wife, Alana Mayo, are calling it quits. Two months after they secretly wed in a San Francisco courthouse, Waithe and Mayo released a joint statement to…
R. Kelly girlfriend can return to Kelly home for belongings
CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Thursday agreed to allow a girlfriend of R. Kelly to retrieve her belongings from the singer’s home in Trump Tower in Chicago, where authorities…
NY man faces a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son
Rysheim Smith, of New York, was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son and now faces a life sentence. Smith, 49, was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Zymere…
Norfolk State University’s marching band voted the best in the HBCU land
Norfolk State University’s Spartan Legion band was voted 2019 HBCU Sports Band of the Year— securing bragging rights for the band, the school and thousands of alumni. READ MORE: Grambling…
Jacob Lawrence on His Groundbreaking Pictures of Black Life, in 1944 – ARTnews.com
Although Jacob Lawrence is best known his groundbreaking “Migration of the Negro to the North During World War I” series, which is now partly on view at the Museum of…
Mary J. Blige in first image released promoting Power spinoff series
Power Book II: Ghost, the spinoff of the popular Starz crime drama, Power, released its first image promoting the show that featured Mary J. Blige as Monet, a successful and…
Elizabeth Hurley sizzles in hot pink bikini
Elizabeth Hurley doesn’t just design her own bikinis, she models them too. The 54-year-old actress treated her 1.5 million Instagram followers on Friday to a steamy poolside snap in one…