Drake is the latest rapper to chime in and show support for incarcerated rapper Meek Mill. Just a few months ago, these two were going head to head with diss records against each other forcing people to choose sides on who they thought was the better emcee. Just this weekend while performing on stage, Drake […]
Aaron Hernandez‘s death took the world by surprise on Wednesday after news broke that the former NFL star had committed suicide in his prison cell. More details have emerged, including the fact that he had written “John 3:16” on his forehead before killing himself. Although some reports claimed that he wrote the message in his own blood, […]
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – A state judge sentenced Dylann Roof on 13 state counts in the June 2015 Charleston church shooting Monday afternoon. Dylann Roof, 23, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on each of nine murder counts, each term to be served consecutively; and a consecutive 30-year prison term on each of three […]
It’s a messy tale. Baltimore mega preacher, Jamal Bryant is getting called out by a woman he had a child with, LaToya Odom. According to Odom, Bryant has ignored a court order regarding child support and now she wants the pastor jailed. Odom initially sued Bryant back in 2016, demanding he make child support […]
https://twitter.com/Blavity/status/847818466652454912 Mark Jimmerson lost his life too soon and a family is left heartbroken. The 21-year-old, who was arrested in February 2016 on felony charges that included robbery with a dangerous weapon, was pronounced dead in an Oklahoma County jail cell on Saturday. Jimmerson suffered from asthma and had placed several calls to his mother, complaining about trouble […]
If you do the crime, you got to spend the dime — or almost $87K if you’re Katt Williams. TMZ reports that a Georgia judge ordered the comedian to pay $86,715 to Paul Love, who sued Katt last year for allegedly punching him in the head when Love was ten weeks into recovering from brain […]
WARREN, Maine (AP) — Maine’s corrections commissioner has ordered state prison workers to stop making women remove their bras to go through screening to visit inmates. Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick says he didn’t know that women were being required to remove undergarments after the bras apparently set off metal detectors. The commissioner says he became […]
An Idaho judge sentenced a high school football player to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service after prosecutors said he took part in a brutal locker room assault on a black football player. Judge Randy Stoker is now speaking out and responding to people who feel that the sentence was too […]
Black women have become accustomed to hearing negative statistics about their finances, health and marriageability, but there is one statistic that has improved dramatically. According to recent reports, Black women are going to jail much less, while white women’s incarceration rates have skyrocketed. The Washington Post reports: The U.S. imprisonment rate has been declining for […]
Nicki Minaj's brother Jelani Maraj was in court on Friday for the rape case in which he's being accused of predatory assault of a child.
The producer has finally been forced to pay the price for skipping out on paying almost two decades of child support.
Chicago native Farad Polk is finally receiving his just due after being accidentally locked up in a Chi-Town jail for 31 hours.
