The North Carolina cop who killed Keith Lamont Scott will not face charges, his family’s lawyer told local media. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Brentley Vinson shot and killed the 43-year-old on Sept. 20, igniting nights of protests in Charlotte and across the country. Police have maintained that the shooting was justified. Official said the cop, who
Yes we can, but no she won’t. In an interview published this week, President Barack Obama confirmed what the First Lady has been saying all along. “Michelle will never run for office,” said Obama, speaking with Rolling Stonemagazine the day after Hillary Clinton’s Election Day defeat. “She is as talented a person as I know. You
According to HITS Daily Double, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar will headline the annual festival in Indio, Calif. Other rumored headliners include Radiohead and possibly Oasis. If true, it wouldn’t be the first time Bey and K-Dot have made appearances at the desert fest. Kendrick popped up during performances by Ice Cube and Anderson .Paak earlier
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge sentenced retired NFL player Darren Sharper to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping two women in Los Angeles, bookending what has been several prison sentences for a series of sexual assaults. Sharper, 41, was sentenced Tuesday (Nov. 29) in accordance with a “global plead deal” in light of
The truck driver who slammed into the back of a van carrying actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and several other people, killing one of them, pleaded guilty Tuesday and could avoid jail time. Kevin Roper entered the plea in state Superior Court to vehicular homicide and four counts of aggravated assault. Roper was driving a Walmart truck
With a year of events planned, The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater kicks off its 40thAnniversary with the Visions of Our 44th President Barack Obama exhibition. The exhibit displays realistic, life-sized busts designed, painted, and/or embellished by forty-four contemporary African American artists from across the country. Visions will open to a private all black cocktail opening reception on November 30, 2016 featuring
If you’ve yet to catch up on the last episode of Insecure, do not proceed to read the rest of this article. If you have, and your group chats are full of theories, then allow creator Issa Rae to add to your notions. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 31-year-old visionary displayed her plans for the status
Cops arrested more than two dozen people, including four elected officials, early Tuesday for shutting down Broadway in a protest over the minimum wage. By 8:15 a.m., 26 people had been arrested on Broadway at Liberty St. near Zuccotti Park — the site of the Occupy Wall Street protests that began in 2011, officials said.
President-elect Donald Trump condemned the constitutionally protected act of flag burning, threatening to lock up anyone who takes a flame to the Stars and Stripes. “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag — if they do, there must be consequences,” Trump tweeted early Tuesday. “Perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” It’s unclear what
The recent string of off-screen drama surrounding the Kardashian clan will further delay production for their hit reality series. Filming will not resume for “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” before the end of the year in the wake of Kim Kardashian’s traumatic robbery in Paris and Kanye West’s hospitalization, TMZ reports. Producers originally intended to capture footage of