Black History Month

This year marks 50 years since Freedom Summer, when nearly 1,000 volunteers travelled throughout the Southern United States to register black Americans to vote. Many…

Via: ABC News Earlier today Durham police shot and killed a man as he waved a gun downtown Durham and threatened to shoot himself. The man was Derek Walker. According to his facebook, he was distraught over issues with the mother of his child. According to ABC, “As police were negotiating, the man pointed the […]

As much as hip-hop tries to disassociate itself from violence, it can never fully sever ties. Case in point, a young rapper from Miami named…

Terrence Howard‘s publicist is going to be very busy doing damage control this week. Fresh off his colorful remarks about Oprah Winfrey’s bosom, the “Dead…

RIP Slim Dunkin. Rapper Slim Dunkin of Waka Flocka’s Brick Squad was killed today according to various reports and tweets from BrickSquad associates. Details are still sketchy. Supposedly, he was shot and killed while on the set of Gucci Mane’s video shoot in Atlanta.

HOKE COUNTY (WTVD) — Hoke County Sheriff Hubert Peterkin has charged the third suspect involved in a fatal home invasion Monday. Authorities have charged 20-year-old Oseas Santiago Jr. of Fayetteville, along with 20-year-old Richard David Perez of Fayetteville and 17-year-old Justin Ryan Vasquez of Raeford, in connection with 31-year-old Nicolas Bekiaris’ death. Authorities say Bekiaris was […]

A 7-year-old girl was shot and killed at a home in Detroit early Sunday when a police officer’s gun discharged during a search for a man suspected in the shooting death of a local teenage boy, police said. Detroit Police Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee said an officer executing a search warrant with the department’s Special […]