(CNN) — Lashawn Thompson, the man who died inside a Georgia county jail last year had been living in conditions akin to a “torture chamber” before ultimately dying of complications stemming from severe neglect to his mental and physical health, according to the man’s family attorneys and an independent medical review. The independent medical review […]
Monday’s episode of “The View” saw Whoopi Goldberg giving co-host Sunny Hostin a lap dance. The moment came as part of the Hot Topics segment when the panel discussed whether lap dancing at a bachelor counts as cheating. “I said during our Hot Topics meeting that lap dancing isn’t cheating, but come to think of […]
Janelle Monáe says she’s much happier when her “titties are out.” “I’m much happier when my titties are out and I can run around free,” Monáe said in a new interview with Rolling Stone. Monáe, 37, is set to release her fourth album “The Age of Pleasure,” and most recently released an NSFW music video […]
Beyoncé and Jay-Z have purchased a new 30,000-square-foot Malibu home overlooking Paradise Cove. According to TMZ, they dropped all cash for the $200 million property. We reported earlier that until Hov and Bey’s purchase, the California record was held by Marc Andreeson, who paid $177 million for his crib. Nationwide, the power couple comes in […]
Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., is speaking out about the NAACP’s claim that the state of Florida is “hostile to Black Americans.” As The Hill reports, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the advisory “bizarre” and “utterly dishonest.” “In the 1950s & 1960s, the NAACP did extraordinary good helping […]
I’d like to begin this Ringside Update by going back to April of 1987 when then middleweight champion “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler was set to defend his undisputed titles against Sugar Ray Leonard at Ceasar’s Palace Las Vegas in what was promoted as “The Super Fight.” This event was also promoted by Bob Arum and Top […]
News recently broke out that the singer and actor who smashed racial barriers in the US, Harry Belafonte, had died. This was a day before I traveled to South Africa, and whilst there I went through my OUR ROOTS archives to update the Harry Belafonte feature strip I had done many years ago in black […]
(CNN) — The Denver Nuggets rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to complete a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers with a 113-111 victory on Monday night to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time in the franchise’s 47-year history. Center Nikola Jokic scored 30 points while adding 14 rebounds and 13 […]
Last week wasNational Police Week. Local law enforcement departments celebrated people in law enforcement around the country, including all the alphabet boys and girls. Celebrating the FBI, CIA, and DOJ. But while some people applauded the “alphabeters,” others in Congress are talking about reducing the budgets of the Department of Justice. That means reducing the […]
Social Heat is so wavy this afternoon. ‘The Color Purple’ movie trailer drops and stars Fantasia, Halle Bailey, Taraji P. Henson, Ciara, Danielle Brooks, and others. The film hits theaters on 12/25/23. Webbies, are you hyped to see it!? Oprah, Fantasia, Danielle Brooks, and H.E.R were decked out in spa robes and beat faces as […]
Actors Harrison Ford and Mads Mikkelsen are speaking out about what fans can expect from the forthcoming “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this final installment of the iconic franchise, per the official synopsis. “There were a lot of old jokes in the […]
Las Vegas, NV – Three-time, GRAMMY award-winning artist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Megan Thee Stallion has officially welcomed her two wax figures at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas and Madame Tussauds New York. Extra, extra read all about it because her latest figure in Vegas is savage in a fierce newsprint catsuit and matching cowboy hat with […]