Screenshot: CNN Former Biden staffer and current Harvard fellow Ashley Allison found herself in a bit of controversy after recently discussing the impact of the 1995 OJ Simpson trial on CNN. The broadcaster’s political commentator didn’t mince words when she discussed the feelings Simpson’s death brought back up for Black Americans. W. Kamau Bell On […]
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In December 1994, investigators from the Los Angeles County prosecutor’s office drilled open a safe deposit box that had belonged to Nicole Brown Simpson. In it, they found Polaroids of her with a battered face and letters from O.J. Simpson apologizing for abusing her. “The message in the box was clear,” wrote Marcia Clark, the […]
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For years now, I’ve had advocates who work with survivors of domestic violence tell me that two events in 1994 changed entirely the landscape for victims’ services in their field: the passage of the Violence Against Women Act and the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. In fact, many advocates cite her death in June of […]
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Before her trip to New York a few weeks ago, Lisa Pires, a South African living in Amsterdam, encountered a series of videos on TikTok in which young women had filmed themselves after getting attacked on the street in New York. Most were punched in the face — unprovoked, at random — in Manhattan south […]
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R. Kelly’s ex-wife Andrea Kelly is speaking up and shedding light on her alleged physical and financially abusive marriage to the disgraced R&B singer. Wendell Pierce Is Hyped About His New Show ‘Elsbeth’, Reminisces on His Iconic Roles Off English As the keynote speaker for third annual fundraising luncheon for Faces of Hope—a Boise, Ida. […]
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R. Kelly’s ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly is speaking up and shedding light on her alleged physical and financially abusive marriage to the disgraced R&B singer. Wendell Pierce Is Hyped About His New Show ‘Elsbeth’, Reminisces on His Iconic Roles Off English As the keynote speaker for third annual fundraising luncheon for Faces of Hope—a Boise, […]
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The Supreme Court reputedly has a long-awaited conservative majority committed to enforcing the meaning of the Constitution as it was understood when it was adopted. This commitment to originalist interpretation will soon be tested in two cases now before the court that have what lawyers call “bad optics.” One case, United States v. Rahimi, involves […]
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Jonathan Majors attends 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar After Party Arrivals at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.Photo: Robert Smith/Patrick McMullan (Getty Images) On Monday, Jonathan Majors learned his legal fate with regard to the domestic dispute trial in which he was convicted of third degree reckless […]
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Jonathan Majors, a rising movie star who was found guilty last year of assaulting and harassing his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, was sentenced to 52 weeks of domestic violence programming on Monday in Criminal Court in Manhattan. Mr. Majors, in a dark turtleneck, had no immediate reaction as the sentence was announced. He could have faced […]
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Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good are seen arriving at court on December 4, 2023, in New York City. | Source: MEGA / Getty UPDATED: 1:30 p.m. ET, April 3 Jonathan Majors’ request to have his charges vacated was denied Wednesday, according to TMZ. Majors and his legal team filed a motion in February asking the […]
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Newly released footage and audio recordings from a vehicle pursuit in September 2022 show that a 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped by her father was fatally shot by gunfire from deputies as she followed their instructions to exit her father’s truck. The girl, Savannah Graziano, was fatally shot on Sept. 27, 2022, off Interstate […]
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