December 2020 Blog Posts (136)

• A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged as a juvenile after he was allegedly seen damaging a BMW
• The attack by a gang of teenagers in Manhattan occurred on Fifth Avenue and corner of 21st street on Tuesday
• Dozens of youths on bicycles were filmed…

Activity at La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent. (GP)

Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines were warned to stay away from La Soufriere volcano after increased seismic activity was detected in the dome over the weekend.

Volcanologists Dr Erouscille Pat Joseph and Professor Richard Robertson of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), joined Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in…

The Chinese government has sentenced a citizen journalist to four years in prison for reporting on the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. 

Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer, was sentenced to four years in prison in Shanghai on Monday for her reporting on the potentially deadly virus early this year…

Everett K. Sands, Lendistry’s founder and CEO

The State of California announced that it has selected a Black-led-and-operated financial firm in Los Angeles to act as the intermediary charged with disbursing $500 million in COVID-19 grants to California small businesses and non-profits.

The California Office of The Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), which operates under the Governor’s Office…

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• The House of Representatives passed a bill Monday evening that would increase Americans' stimulus checks to $2,000 
• President Donald Trump held a giant spending and COVID-19 stimulus bill in limbo demanding larger checks 
• On Sunday night he agreed to sign the bill, but repeated his ask for the dollar amount to be…

‘SoHo Karen’ Was Busted in Another Hotel Incident – LA Activists Demand LAPD Arrest/Extradite Her – VIDEO

Miya Ponsetto (L) shushing Gayle King on her computer screen during their interview on “CBS: This Morning” (airdate Jan. 8, 2021)

Miya Ponsetto, a.k.a. Soho Karen, cut off Gayle King by giving her the hand during their remote interview for “CBS This Morning,” not long before she was arrested in…

Donald Trump – Getty

*Trump took much-deserved heat for deliberately and vindictively gumming up the works in not immediately signing the 900-billion-dollar second stimulus bill.

The list of those hurt by the delay runs off the chart; renters, the unemployed, small to medium-sized businesses, and the millions of the neediest of the needy. As usual, African Americans are a disproportionate percentage…

The ratification of the presidential election results is usually uneventful. But this year, when Congress meets to certify that President-elect Joe Biden will take over the White House, the world will be watching.

A small group of House Republicans are reportedly planning to contest the certification of some states’ Electoral College votes, which will be presided over by Vice…

LeBron James and his wife Savannah have fired back at a report that their son teen Bronny is quietly shooting his shot at Larsa Pippen. 

“With everything going on in the world right now, this is the s*** y’all talking about,” Savannah wrote on her Instagram Story. “At the end of the day y’all are talking about a minor. I don’t care what type of ‘celebrity’ y’all think he is, he’s a child…

Cops in the Bay Area city of Hayward, California wrongly shot a teenager twice in the back and then removed the bullets “by hand,” according to a federal lawsuit. 

The lawsuit claims the officers shot the unnamed 17-year-old in the back in June, removed the bullets themselves before paramedics arrived, and then dropped him off at a juvenile facility, the…

• Duke Webb, 37, is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder; he is an active member of the US Army 
• The shooting happened just before 7pm Saturday at a bowling alley in Rockford
• Three men, aged 73, 65 and 69, were killed; two teenagers were also injured 
• The sixth…

In October, JAY-Z‘s 21-year-old nephew Nahziah Carter was accused of sexual assault, and now it’s reported he’s been suspended from the University of Washington, per a report from The Seattle Times.

While he had plans to leave school to go professional, The Times reports that the Washington Huskies star basketball guard’s plans have been foiled after being suspended…

Remember our story about record producer Jermaine Dupri wanting policed to go “code red” as far as increasing racial profiling over the shooting of a 7-year-old girl by a stray bullet? Well, unfortunately, that child has died.

Kennedy Maxie died six days after she was struck by a stray bullet while Christmas shopping with her family in Buckhead this past Monday (12-21-20), according to…

• Yocheved Gourarie, 24, of Brooklyn, died shortly before noon on December 22
• Police said she fell to her death from the Vessel, a 150-foot walkable sculpture
• Gourarie scheduled an Instagram post to go live the day after her death
• She had previously told social media followers of her struggles with…

TAYO Fatunla is an award-winning Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer and Illustrator. He is one of the participants of the CARTAN Virtual cartoon exhibition marking 60 years of Nigeria. He is a graduate of the prestigious Kubert…

Some of the UK’s biggest songwriters have had to turn to driving for ride sharing companies to make ends meet.  

“The most successful songwriters in the world can’t pay their rent,” said Fiona Bevan, who has written songs for Kylie Minogue, One Direction, Steps and Lewis…