“I was confused on why she would write that on my arm”, Parents claim the school administration refused to investigate and discipline white classmates for writing the N-word on their son’s paper and on his armParents claim the school’s principal and assistant principal refused to investigate and discipline the white classmates for writing the N-word on their son’s paper and on his arm. The couple said their son came home from school with a racial slur written on his arm. But, the school officials reportedly told the parents that they did a handwriting analysis to determine who had written the…
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A lesbian mother and her wife were charged after their 4-year-old son was found in a metal trash bin with “obvious signs of injury.” Malachi Lawson went missing Thursday, August 1, and the FBI got involved in investigating the whereabouts of the child. However, after just a day since he was reported missing from the porch of his grandmother’s home in Baltimore, the boy’s mother Alicia Lawson, 24, admitted that Malachi was actually dead. After she and her wife Shatika Lawson, 40, were charged with involuntary manslaughter, child abuse and making false statements, in connection to the child’s death, Alicia…
The 20th season of “American Idol” will come to a close Sunday night with the three finalists singing the music of Bruce Springsteen in a bid to win the title.Judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan will all perform, as will season four winner Carrie Underwood, who has been serving as a mentor on the program. Leah Marlene, Noah Thompson and HunterGirl were good enough to impress the judges all season long, and in fact, it’s fair to say the trio got them excited from the very start. HunterGirl, who Bryan called his “favorite female country voice I’ve heard”…
A German-based Ghanaian man has been captured on a video confronting a pastor of a Ghanaian-owned church for allegedly having s3xual affair with his wife.According to reports, the accused man of God leads a congregation at the Faith Pentecostal Ministries in Frankfurt. The irate man created a scene at the premises of the church and interrupted the ongoing Sunday service.He accused the self-acclaimed man of God of hiding behind the name of God and sleeping with his wife.The video that has gone viral sees some church members protecting the pastor from embarrassment. The pastor was swift to avoid the camera…
The discovery had left me reeling, confused and in need of answers. My sense of white identity had been shattered.My mother’s visit to my home in Illinois seemed like the right moment. This was not a conversation I wanted to have on the phone.But my mother’s fearful plea for secrecy only added to my confusion about my racial identity. As did her 1921 birth certificate that I obtained from the state of Louisiana, which listed her race as “col” (colored), and a 1940 Louisiana census record, which listed my mother, Alvera Frederic, as Neg/Negro, working in a tea shop in…
A Washington state man who police say killed his girlfriend and mother of three was arrested, according to a report. Tacoma police arrested a 21-year-old man, whose name has not been released, in connection to the death of 24-year-old Elisia Simpson, also known as “CeCe,” KIRO reports. The suspect was taken into custody at around 8:20 p.m. May 18, according to police. He was booked into the Pierce County jail on a domestic violence murder charge, according to KIRO. He also faces a charge of aggravated assault of a child, though police say Simpson’s children were not hurt. On May…
A woman was gunned down while sitting in her car in a shopping center parking lot in Maryland in the early morning hours of March 2, 1996. Before leaving the scene, the killer reached in the car and took an item leaving his fingerprints behind. Now, 25 years later, police still hope to solve the cold case and find the suspect who they don’t believe kept the murder to himself.Around 4 a.m. on the fateful day, police in Baltimore County, Maryland, responded to York Road for a shooting. There, officers found Joann “Jody” Elizabeth LeCornu, 23, shot to death in…
According to her: Please hide my identity. This situation is very important and I really need a way out. I am 26 and I would be finishing my youth service very soon. I graduated from Usman Danfodiyo university Sokoto with a First Class in the department of Economics. While I was in school, I was dating this guy who was very nice to me. We started dating when I was in second year and even though we were just students and uncertain about what life had in store for us, I loved him deeply and was very willing to walk…
A Bell County grand jury this week indicted a Killeen man on a felony charge after police said he broke into a woman’s home and choked her during an alleged incident earlier this year. Police said that the victim and her daughter turned the tables on Otis Corey Limbacker III during the alleged incident and had him pinned to the ground by the time officers arrived. Limbacker III, 45, was being held in the Bell County Jail on Thursday in lieu of a bond of $75,000, on the third-degree felony charge.Just after 1 a.m. on Feb. 19, Killeen police were…
South Africa’s struggle with racism is once again in the spotlight after a white first-year student was caught urinating on the property of a black student at Stellenbosch University. According to local South Africa media reports, the black student was sleeping and awoke when he heard that someone was in his room. In the video capturing the incident, the student is heard asking the white student why he is urinating on his belongings. BBC News reports that the white student has since been suspended from the institution as investigations into the incident continue.“The university has said the incident will be…