News

National

20-year-old New Yorker Christopher Belter was a teenager when he raped and sexually abused four teenage girls on separate occasions during parties at his parents' home. In 2019, he pleaded guilty to the crimes. On Tuesday, Niagara County Court Judge Matthew J. Murphy III sentenced him to eight years probation.

A black man in Florida has filed a lawsuit against the Miami police after he claims five officers arrested him for stealing his own car.

News

Former NFL running back Zac Stacy was caught on video brutally attacking his ex-girlfriend and mother of his five-month-old child who was present during the violent assault, which took place at the woman's Florida home.

News

As lawmakers discuss today’s hot topic policy issues, we must remain focused and hold our leaders accountable during the redistricting process that is producing a number of gerrymandered maps of where people can vote.

The Chicago gang leader is currently serving six life sentences for his alleged involvement in a gang-affiliated murder stemming from 1973. 

News

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office moved to formally exonerate two of the men convicted in the assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X: Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, formerly known as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, respectively.

The former 'Reading Rainbow' personality has teamed up with Hasbro and eOne to bring the family favorite trivia game “Trivial Pursuit” to television.

News

A new national poll shows that only 44 percent of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement—a steep decline from the 52 percent who said they supported the movement in June 2020, according to the same survey.

News

Donald “Kirk” Hartle of Nevada, one of the states Trump falsely claimed he won, has agreed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of illegally voting twice, drawing attention to Crystal Mason's 5-year prison sentence for voting in Texas.

A federal judge in Portland, Maine ruled that evidence found by state troopers during a traffic stop cannot be used in court because officers racially profiled a black motorist before pulling him over.