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A report from Vice regarding the timing of McDonald’s partnerships with Travis Scott and J Balvin has received a response from the popular fast food company. The Vice report cites two historians, Marcia Chatelain, and Chin Jou, who spoke on the company’s history regarding race, with the piece suggesting the partnership was launched in response to […]
Derek Chauvin, one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged with murder in the George Floyd case, has been released on $1 million bond. NBC News reports that the white 44-year-old ex-cop, who was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, was released on conditional release Wednesday from an Oak Park Heights, Minnesota prison. He […]
Netflix is facing criminal charges over Cuties, a coming-of-age film that has been widely criticized for exploiting young actors and encouraging the sexualization of children. According to legal documents obtained by the Texas Tribune, a grand jury in Tyler, Texas, indicted the streaming giant for promoting content that “depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or […]
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to weigh-in on the six-year-old copyright battle alleging that Led Zeppelin‘s 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven” plagiarized the opening riff from Spirit’s “Taurus,” with “Taurus” being a song that had come out three years earlier. As a result, a ruling was left in place that rejected the copyright […]
An $800 million deal has received a signing off from MGM Resorts International and its insurers in connection with the worst mass shooting in modern history for the U.S. The settlement has been approved by Clark County District Judge Linda Bell, per Deadline, and includes the input of more than 4,400 relatives and victims connected […]
The REFORM Alliance team has secured its first major legislative victory. On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1950 into law. REFORM Alliance—which was co-founded by Meek Mill, Jay-Z, Michael Rubin, and others—was heavily involved in pushing the bill through the legislature this session alongside its primary sponsor, Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove. The organization’s chief advocacy officer, Jessica Jackson, and its national […]
Georgia investigators confirmed this week that a severe lice infestation may have indirectly caused a child’s death. According to WSB-TV, the information was presented during a preliminary hearing for Mary Katherine Horton, 37, and Joey Yozviak, 38—a couple that has been charged in the death of their 12-year-old daughter Kaitlyn Yozviak. Georgia Bureau of Investigation […]
A New Hampshire man was arrested last week for allegedly fatally shooting his wife’s lover before making her behead him, according to People. Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald and State Police Colonel Nathan A. Noyes announced in a release that Armando Barron, 30, has been charged with capital murder for “knowingly causing the death of […]
Though we’re still a day away from a formal announcement, Donald Trump has reportedly chosen his Supreme Court nominee. Republican sources tell CNN the president has selected Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge on Chicago’s 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Barrett is reportedly the only potential nominee who has met with Trump in-person. Insiders claim she was at the White House on Monday and Tuesday, and apparently […]
Nigeria’s Kaduna state passed a new law dictating that men who are convicted of rape can be castrated, the New York Post reports. Child rapists face the steeper punishment of castration and then execution. Women who are convicted of raping a child can be subject to the removal of their fallopian tubes. “Drastic penalties are required to help further […]
