By: Britt L Nearly two years after the rαpe and murder of five-year-old Mariha Smith, the 22-year-old man who was dating her aunt was finally charged with the unspeakable crimes. When Mariha’s body was found mutilated and burned in an old Detroit abandoned building July 2011, her aunts boyfriend, Darnell Cheatham was the initial suspect. However, investigators could never gather enough evidence to prosecute Cheatham until Monday. During a court…
Rev. Al Sharpton is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, he’s a civil rights icon. For others, he’s a street hustler with smooth words and a talk show on MSNBC. He has been in the civil rights business for a very long time, and seems to treat it as a business. But some of his actions have drawn the ire of critics, including four pastors…
The once tragic Adrian Peterson news has taken a ratchet and surprising turn. Since suffering the death of his son last week, some surprising news has come out about the NFL star. Not too long after the child’s death news broke that the NFL star did not know his deceased son. In fact, the first time he ever met the child was visiting him in the hospital on life support….
Adrian Peterson’s life has just gotten more and more complicated since the death of his two-year old son. Right after being the MVP for the NFL, Peterson is being exposed as a man who doesn’t keep up with all the kids he keeps having. According to TMZ, Peterson is the father of a three-month old girl born to a woman who works as a waitress in Indianapolis. This is yet…
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is going to prison for a very long time. He received 28 years in prison for over a dozen charges. The charges include racketeering, extortion and filing false tax returns. He apologized to the court afterward. “I say with every morsel of my being that I’m sorry to you,” he said. Judge Nancy G. Edmunds seemed determined to make the former mayor into…
BY: John “Hennry” Harris The Cincinnati Police Department, and the communities they serve, are in shock and disappointment after one of its most decorated and commendable cops was indicted for sexting with a minor and setting up an unauthorized police substation. Darrell Beavers, 44, represented all that was good about a police officer. The 12-year CPD veteran was highly active in the community, taking part in the Police Explorer program…
We’re not entirely sure if Alicia Keys really believes in aliens or not, but that’s reportedly what she said to Buzzfeed recently during an interview. The site’s reporter, Jordan Zakarin asked her about life, singing and her fears. It turns out that aliens are one of her primary concerns. Alicia says that she believes that aliens are among us and that the rest of us should know that they…
A Georgia family is distraught over a police shooting death that they say should never have happened. The family of Jack Lamar Roberson says that police were called to help deal with the fact that he’d taken too much diabetes medication. But instead of helping him, he ended up being killed by police. Alicia Herron called 911 after she saw Roberson behaving erratically after taking the pills to control his…
When domestic violence occurs, it’s always a sad tragedy. A young mother lost her life after being shot in front of her three year old child. The alleged assailant was her boyfriend, who also nearly took the life of the unborn child in the process. Briana Anderson was just 22-years old when all of this happened, in her third trimester of pregnancy. The Florida resident was taken in for an…
There are places in the world where women are treated in ways that are simply unspeakable. A woman from the Sudan got international attention after a video showed her being flogged in the streets for getting into a car with a man to whom she was not related. A crowd watched the poor women get beaten and didn’t try to intervene. Apparently, women are disallowed by Sudan’s public order law…
BY: John “Hennry” Harris Police in Lakewood, CA are seeking help in looking for a male suspect, who punched a female Conoco gas station clerk in the face, reminiscent of a scene from the wildly popular video game Grand Theft Auto. The video, which has gone viral, shows the man becoming enraged while attempting to purchase a cigar that cost $1.41. The suspect only had one dollar. When told he…
by Barry Burch Jr. It’s been 6 years since Sheryl Shivers-Blackwell was k*lled by her abusive husband with suspected mental issues, but it’s certainly worth remembering. Maybe it could save someone’s life. A call each and every day leading up to her death illustrates the support Sheryl Shivers-Blackwell had on her side, and also the unpredictable and psychotic behavior of a lover, who was reportedly dangerous by many accounts. It was…
Leave it to The University of Alabama to try to do something in 2013 that should have happened in 1973. The sororities on campus received a lot of negative publicity after it was revealed that they don’t want black girls to even apply for admission. Well, after the major backlash took place, the sororities now feel that adding a few black faces will make everything a-ok. But here’s a better…
The only thing worse than having a bad marriage is to have your parents think that they are in the marriage too. Lamar Odom and his wife Khloe Kardashian are getting it from both sides. Mama Kardashian is one of the biggest boss-like women in the world and Lamar’s father seems to think that there is always an excuse for the reason that his son runs away from his family…
There is the glamorous side of being Beyonce, and then there is the scary side. Beyonce’s world tour took a stop in Sao Paulo, Brazil this week. The singer performed on Sunday, with a sold out crowd, similar to what she’s been seeing in every venue. During the performance, the singer reached down into the crowd to shake their hands as she always does. To her surprise, a fan…