On Monday evening, the social justice advocate and daughter of Eric Garner will be laid to rest, ABC 7 reports. On Monday evening, the social justice advocate and daughter of Eric Garner will be laid to rest, ABC 7 reports. Eric Garner died in 2014 after being illegally placed in a chokehold by a Staten Island police officer. His death came just a month before Mike Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, was shot to d ...

  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Friends and family packed the pews Saturday afternoon to say goodbye to a mother randomly shot and killed right after Christmas. “Right now, we need an understanding. Right now, we need a shoulder to cry on,” said the pastor, comforting the crowd mourning the loss of Ebony Sheppard. Police say Sheppard was murdered in the parking lot of her apartment complex during a robbery spree. He ...

[caption id="attachment_64370" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] H&M announced on September 28, 2017 that its third quarter net profit fell 20%. Its stock price, which has fallen steadily since 2015, was down 5% percent on the day.[/caption] H&M was forced to apologize Monday for using a black child to model a sweatshirt with a “coolest monkey in the jungle” slogan. The company removed the offending ...

LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) - A police-involved shooting turned fatal Sunday night in Lauderhill. According to Lauderhill Police, at around 7:40 p.m. a bystander flagged down an officer at a bus stop and said they were a victim of an armed robbery. The person then told police that the subject fled into a Lauderhill neighborhood after stealing his backpack. After further investigation, the officer discovered the ...

Mike Tyson seems to be capitalizing on California’s newest legislation New reports suggest that Mike Tyson has purchased 40 acres of land in California in order to grow marijuana. Tyson purchased the property in a town with a population of just 15,000 residents located southwest of Death Valley. This news comes shortly after the state of California legalized the sale of recreational marijuana as a not-so-su ...

SEFFNER, Fla. - A Florida man was arrested after allegedly beating his 7-year-old stepson to death for getting out of bed to get a cookie. The man then forced the boy's brothers to sleep in bed with the body. Jack Junior Montgomery, 31, was being held on $870,000 bond after being charged with the brutal murder of Brice Russell. WFLA reports Montgomery told investigators he had beaten Russell after he had go ...

*Full disclaimer, I listen to KFI 640 AM religiously. From Wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Lee through the Tim Conway Jr. Show and even Jesus Christ on Sunday mornings.  I am both a fan of the shows as well as the news reporting. That said, I am also a Black woman and just like I took issue with John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI’s John and Ken show when after Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathtub a ...

Much has changed in the four years since Colin Kaepernick was last on the cover of GQ. Back then he was a rippling superhero of a quarterback on the rise. But a simple act—kneeling during the national anthem—changed everything. It cost him his job. It also transformed Colin Kaepernick into a lightning rod and a powerful symbol of activism and resistance. Though Colin Kaepernick continues his silent protest, ...

Behind the scenes with football quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the man who’s become a movement. He's been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL—all because he took a knee to protest police brutality. But Colin Kaepernick's determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson—athletes who risked everything to make a difference. Still haven’t subscribed to GQ on Y ...

The former manager of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Paul Manafort, is to face charges related to an inquiry into alleged Russian election meddling, US media report. He was seen arriving at an FBI office in Washington with his lawyer early on Monday. ...