By Victor Ochieng Punishing children isn’t easy, especially due to the many laws meant to protect them. Several people are coming up with different humane ways of disciplining misbehaving kids without landing on the wrong side of the law or causing them harm. Russel Fredrick, a Snellville, Georgia-based barber, believes that giving a misbehaving kid an old man’s haircut is the perfect form of punishment. Three days a week, he…
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February 6, 2015
Two Ohio deputies have been terminated over racist text messages. According to local affiliate WHIO, the two Montgomery County deputies, Detective Mike Sollenberger and Captain Tom Flanders, were fired from their positions. The announcement was made today and stems from dozens of racially offensive conversations had by the deputies. “Connelly, who has been with the department for 3.5 years, is accused of sending six inappropriate conversations,” WHIO reports. “Horton, who…
by Yvette Carnell When Larry Wilmore took over after Stephen Colbert left for greener pastures, many in the black community were excited at the prospect of having a black man on as a late night host. Now, however, after Wilmore’s joke at the expense of black women, there may exist some lingering buyer’s remorse. The Nightly Show host asked during a “Keep it 100” segment whether black women were too…
Tensions are surely running high among Bobbi Kristina’s relatives given the circumstances, but according to 11Alive news in Atlanta, frustration escalated to violence among family members during their hotel stay. The local affiliate reports that Brown family members were involved in a physical altercation at a hotel. Police report that Tina Brown, Bobby Brown’s sister, hit Shayne Brown, Bobby Brown’s cousin, in the head with a bottle. The victim was…
A Maryland man who lured heterosεxual men at bars to his home, then sεxually assαulted them, was convicted on Thursday. Joey Poindexter, a real estate appraiser, was convicted of sεxually assαulting four men he met at bars and brought home. The allegations came to light after a student accused Poindexter of assαulting him after meeting him at Looney’s Pub in College Park Maryland in 2013. Although Poindexter was only convicted…
As Dexter King and Martin Luther King III continue to fight it out in court with Bernice King over who owns the rights to their father’s legacy, Dexter King is putting his multimillion dollar mansion up for sale. If you recall, Bernice King alleged in 2014 that her brothers were trying to sell their father’s Bible, along with other items, so that they could cash in. In the letter, Dr….
By Tamala Perkins Bobby Brown has been in an Atlanta hospital at his daughter Bobbi Kristina’s bedside. She is reported to be fighting for her life after being found unresponsive in a bathtub but he has also received some good news; his wife Alicia Etheredge is pregnant. Brown and his wife are expecting their second child together who will be Brown’s sixth child. The couple has a five year old…