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Source: Matt Cardy / Getty An independent journalist, Ken Klippenstein, was suspended from X, formerly Twitter, for publishing a dossier on JD Vance on the platform. Want to be clear what a lie this is:1. Ken Klippenstein posted the dossier to his own website. He posted no information to Twitter. 2. Calling JD Vance’s address “detailed information on the addresses of their children” is extremely dishonest framing. pic.twitter.com/C8xOyXm6YG — evan […]

Source: Wukela Communications A Black pastor’s federal lawsuit alleging his unlawful and retaliatory arrest by police while he was watering his neighbor’s flowers can move forward after an Alabama judge previously dismissed it, an appeals court ruled on Friday. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled in part that the officers in Childersburg “lacked even arguable probable cause” to arrest Pastor Michael Jennings, who was confronted while watering […]

Source: Tim Mosenfelder / Getty LOS ANGELES–Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar who later went to become a country music singer and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday at the age of 88. Representatives close to Kristofferson said he died peacefully surrounded by his family. Sign up for the WIBC Newsletter to receive the latest news updates! Close Thank you for […]

Source: Julia Beverly / Getty / Boosie Badazz Boosie Badazz continues to let the world know he’s a homophobic moron and his daughter had time for her father. Making an appearance during a live taping of Yung Miami’s podcast Caresha Please! on day three of the Revolt World Conference, Boosie Badazz put his homophobia front and center when speaking about his daughter, Iviona Hatch, an up-and-coming rapper who goes by the […]

Angel Reese came into the WNBA with a flurry of media hype around her and she answered the bell time and again with record-setting performances on the court. However, Angel Reese has admitted that her journey hasn’t been easy and just lost one of her biggest supporters in the league after the Chicago Sky parted ways with its head coach, Teresa Weatherspoon. The massive swell of media attention that the […]

Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty / Latto A Waffle House employee saw one door close after the restaurant chain gave her the boot after she posted a video of herself doing Latto’s “Brokey” TikTok challenge during her shift. The Atlanta rapper came through in the clutch, awarding her $10,000 for her efforts. Latto sent some folks scrambling on social media on September 15 when she posted on X, formerly […]

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 […]