Source: Goodboy Picture Company / Getty   The fight to end hair discrimination continues. According to CNN, Democrats are pushing to have the CROWN Act enforced on a federal level to ban discrimination based on a person’s hairstyle or hair texture. MORE: State Of The Union: Darryl George, Black Student Suspended Over Locs, Attends Biden’s Address CROWN, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, protects individuals from discrimination over natural and protective hairstyles in the workplace, schools and other institutions. The legislation also ensures ..read more

Here’s a question: Why are cops who have committed egregious acts of misconduct, including but not limited to beating Black people while they’re restrained and helpless, allowed by their departments to resign before they get fired? It’s bad enough that they pretty much have to kill a person on camera before they’re held criminally accountable (and sometimes not even then), but when police departments go out of their way to protect the professional reputations of racist, violent or otherwise misbehaving police officers by allowing them to turn in their resignations instead of simply being termi ..read more

Source: Gary Coronado / Getty There’s a reason why there are so many people, especially Black people, who believe the entire system of policing in America needs to be thrown away. It’s not just about racist cops. And it’s certainly not about reducing the problem to “a few bad apples.” It’s about an entire rotten orchard full of police departments protecting cops from accountability, giving them a near-infinite benefit of the doubt, and, of course, rehiring them after they lost their jobs over racism, gross misconduct or both. Meet Greg Marohn. In March 2022, Marohn was hired as an officer o ..read more

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds and other Republican members of the House Oversight Committee tour the encampment at University Yard at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2024. | Source: Anadolu / Getty Rep. Byron Donalds was greeted in part with accusations of betraying the Black race when the MAGA Congressman from Florida visited a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at George Washington University on Wednesday. In a viral clip shared on social media, Donalds is shown speaking to reporters at the Washington, D.C., campus while surrounded by members of the media when an uni ..read more

Source: Google Maps A Black teen who died in March after Mississippi police allegedly “ran over” his body in a cruiser allegedly had a gun while he was being pursued, according to an incident report that contradicts initial claims. The police incident report surrounding the death of Kadarius Smith, 17, was made public this week and offers a revised narrative that not only suggests the deadly encounter with an unidentified officer was an accident but also confirms there is no video footage from that fateful early morning of March 21 in the city of Leland. The report is at odds with the accou ..read more

Source: REACH Media / Reach Media Sybil’s Birthday Shout-Outs Travis Scott, 33 Lil TJay, 23 Gal Gadot, 39 (Wonder Woman) Isiah Thomas, 63 Lloyd Banks, 42 Kirsten Dunst, 42 Al Lewis (Grandpa on The Monsters who died in 2006)   REMEMBERING   Ben E. King (1938-2015)     Sybil Wilkes Top 5 Stories for ‘What You Need To Know:’ April 30, 2023   The post Sybil Wilkes ‘What You Need To Know:’ UN Calls for Reparations, Good Luck, Team USA appeared first on Black America Web ..read more

Source: twitter / Twitter The white man who shot a Black teen in Kansas City, Missouri, last year, is now facing a civil lawsuit, as is the Homeowners Association, which the suit claims should have known of the danger he posed to the community. According to CNN, the seven-page lawsuit was filed Monday in the circuit court of Clay County by Cleopatra Nagbe, the mother of 17-year-old Ralph Yarl, who was shot twice by 85-year-old Andrew Lester in April 2023 after the teen went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. “At all times relevant, Plaintiff (Ralph Yarl) never posed or issu ..read more

Students and residents camp outside Northwestern University during a pro-Palestinian protest, expressing solidarity with Palestinians with banners in Evanston, Illinois, on April 27, 2024. | Source: Anadolu / Getty Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely aware of the student-led protests in support of Gaza that have erupted on college campuses across America. Well, Monday marked the fifth day of the pro-Palestine protest and encampment at Northwestern University which has now attracted pro-Israel counterprotesters, according to WGN 9. So, far, there has been some tension betwe ..read more

Source: Gilbert Flores / Getty Karrueche Tran recently addressed t the ongoing feud between her exes Chris Brown and Quavo, expressing her desire for peace amidst the drama. Text “RICKEY” to 71007 to join the Rickey Smiley Morning Show mobile club for exclusive news. (Terms and conditions). Tran, who was mentioned in diss tracks released by Brown and Quavo, shared her thoughts with TMZ, stating, “I don’t feel. It is what it is. I’m living my life.” She emphasized her focus on work, personal well-being, and maintaining a peaceful life. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON&nb ..read more

Crystal Mason (center) and her legal team in 2018. | Source: Crystal Mason A Texas district attorney is unwilling to accept a recent decision from an appeals court to overturn a Black woman’s voting fraud conviction and is demanding the initial guilty verdict be reinstated. Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells on Thursday announced his office is formally appealing the ruling in the case of Crystal Mason, who was famously sentenced to five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in Texas for the 2016 election, when Trump won. Mason’s conviction was overturned last month, a ..read more