On March 27th, Brandon James Bentley, an armed man, attempted to enter North Carolina A&T campus with over 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Reports indicate that Bentley was violent and threatening unarmed campus security guards as well as Greensboro police. Upon being detained items found on Bentley included: multiple handguns, multiple shotguns, a machete, choking devices, knives, pepper spray, a stun gun, pepper spray, a blow dart gun, and more....
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JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Good Morning America Co-Anchor Michael Strahan traveled to Jackson State University to celebrate Homecoming with the Tigers during a live broadcast of the show. During the broadcast, the University was surprised by the announcement that Mars is donating $100,000 in support of the JSU Emergency Gap Fund. “America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities like JSU are vital resources in educating an increasingly diverse workforce, and the business community can step up to...
“You can’t always be the smartest person in the room, but you can promise to be the hardest working.” – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson The United States Senate is poised to vote later this week to determine whether or not Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will be confirmed. On Monday night, April 4th, the Senate Judiciary Committee in a deadlock procedural voted to move Judge Jackson’s nomination to...
Welp y’all, it’s the fifth and final season of HBO’s Insecure, one of the most iconic Black shows of this decade. I’m not going to lie…as a fan of Awkward Black Girl, the original web series that started it all, I feel a way. To watch Issa Rae and her cohorts take this show from a homegrown YouTube production, to a gateway that has opened all kinds of Hollywood...
The revelation last week by the Innocence Project and American Civil Liberties Union that DNA and fingerprint evidence did not match Ledell Lee, a Black man executed in 2017 for the murder of a white woman, is part of a larger issue that we rarely discuss. Too many Black men face false accusations without true redemption or justice. With all the protests for police and judicial reform, the rising...
