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Source: Variety / Getty / Idris Elba Idris Elba and David Oyelowo continue to be booked and busy. Variety exclusively reports that Elba has signed on to executive produce and star in a TV adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which A24 is developing. The website reports that the series has no home yet, and no writer is attached to the project. Gina Carter joins Elba as an executive producer under […]

Source: JULIEN DE ROSA / Getty It’s the GOAT’s birthday. And by GOAT, we mean the winningest women’s tennis player ever, Serena Williams. During her storied career, which began in 2003 and lasted nearly two decades, she dominated the court and took home several Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open titles. Her success was shared with her sister Venus, as the two won 14 doubles titles, a record in […]

  Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty On Wednesday, a white man from Louisiana, Clay Higgins who was elected to Congress in 2017, posted on social media, for the world to see, an attack on Haitian migrants and citizens that was so vile and brazenly bigoted that everyone who reads it should be shocked and disgusted that anyone, especially and elected official, would write the words and display them purposefully and […]

Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty A bar discipline committee in Washington, D.C. concluded that Rudy Giuliani should be disbarred for “frivolous” and “destructive” efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The former mayor and attorney to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York this summer for this same reason. Also See: Rudy Giuliani Disbarred In New York For Spreading 2020 Election Lies On Behalf Of Donald Trump The decision was made […]

Source: Race Forward and Americans for the Arts / Race Forward and Americans for the Arts Race Forward and Americans for the Arts will launch the Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy on Friday. This national week-long event, running through Oct. 5, will highlight how arts and culture can shape democracy and promote racial equity. This comes at a crucial moment. Just days before, Missouri executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, […]

Source: Bernd Obermann / Getty On Sept. 20, four days before the state-sanctioned killing of Khaliifah ibn Rayford Daniels ‘Abdul-Qudduus, a Black man from South Carolina who was also likely innocent, was executed by lethal injection. His name was Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah–previously known as Freddie Owens. Do you see what’s happening here? There seems to be a renewed doubling down on executing Black men in America whose guilt […]

Source: Justin Johnson / General The trial began Monday and it took less than a week for Justin Johnson to be found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2021 killing of Memphis rapper Young Dolph. The jury took under four hours to deliberate on Thursday (Sept 26), and immediately after the verdict was read, the judge gave Johnson life. RELATED: Dolph Shooter Says He Received $800 of Promised $100K Bounty […]

Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Donald Trump has yet another legal issue to deal with. A Haitian nonprofit organization has filed a lawsuit against him for his false pet eating claims.   As reported by News 5 Cleveland, the Haitian Bridge Alliance has a submitted a claim against the former President and his running mate JD Vance. Their executive director Guerline Jozef expressed their reasoning in a formal statement. “Over the last […]

Source: Matt Jelonek / Getty /Fatman Scoop The Hip-Hop community suffered a tremendous loss with the tragic passing of Fatman Scoop, and now we are learning what led to his death. Spotted on HipHopDX per the Los Angeles Times, Connecticut’s Chief Medical Officer has revealed what caused rapper and legendary hypeman Fatman Scoop to collapse during a performance last month. According to the CMO, Fatman Scoop’s death was caused by […]