Three burglars in Tacoma, Wash. were scared off by a grandma unfazed by their bullsh*t. Guelda Messina actually walked in as the men were trying to rob her house Monday (Nov. 9) morning, and told them to bounce.
Brian Eason, a Black man living in Washington state, has launched a $100,000 racial discrimination lawsuit against a local restaurant. Eason alleges that the Vancouver, Wa. Elmer’s establishment made him prepay for breakfast while white patrons were able to pay after dining.
By now, the memo that white people dressing in blackface is an offensive and racist practice should have gone around enough times for it to stick to one’s memory. However, a group of soccer players in Spokane, Wash. broke away with using old-fashioned common sense and posed in blackface AND afro wigs in an Instagram […]
A high school in the town of Shoreline, Wash. is the center of a brewing controversy over a student’s yearbook photo. A white female student’s picture featured her wearing bronzer that darkened her skin with a caption that suggested she was appearing in”blackface.”
In the city of Olympia in Washington state, the shooting of two unarmed Black suspects over an alleged robbery has ignited protests in the region. The officer who shot the two men is white, adding to a growing list of such incidents across the nation and fueling the ongoing debate.
A suspected burglar in Washington state has an awkward way of making friends. Police say Riley Allen Mullins 28, robbed a woman then sent her a Facebook friend request the very next day.
Earlier this afternoon (Oct. 3), an incident in Washington sparked by a bold White House break-in attempt has led to the death of the suspect in front of the U.S. Capitol. A Connecticut woman, who had a child in the vehicle during the ramming of security barriers, was shot dead by police on the scene […]
On Tuesday (August 6) in Washington, D.C., the “revolutionary but gangsta” group dead prez thrilled audiences at the historic Howard Theater. With well more than a decade in the game, stic.man and M-1 have been dropping their politically-charged brand of Hip-Hop consistently with no signs of slowing down. HipHopWired caught up with them backstage after […]
Thirteen people were wounded in a drive-by shooting that occurred in front of a subsidized housing complex in Washington D.C.’s Northwest section early this morning. Police are looking for two dark-colored vehicles seen driving past the housing complex.
Eight former heads of the Drug Enforcement Administration want the Feds to step in and nullify weed laws in states that have legalized the drug for recreational use. The DEA leaders announced today, that the government must act fast, or risk missing an opportunity to take aim at the likes of Colorado and Washington state.
While the rest of the country was busy pushing for the re-election of President Barack Obama, voters in the states of Colorado and Washington pulled the lever in favor of a new measure that sought to decriminalize and regulate the possession of marijuana. Now with weed becoming legal in the sprawling state of Washington, another […]
Over the weekend, the much ballyhooed unscripted political debate between liberal jokester Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s Daily Show and conservative blowhard Bill O’Reilly, host of FOX’s O’Reilly Factor, was supposed to be a blistering affair with the talking heads of differing views setting off conversational pyrotechnics. Instead, the event dubbed “The Rumble In The […]
A 2-1 ruling by a panel of federal judges could give some semblance of freedom back to the men and women residing in Washington penitentiaries. Acting in the interest of fairness, both legal and socially, a three-judge panel comprised of justices hailing from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted in an effort to […]
Detroit wordsmith Danny Brown accused a member of the South African group Die Antwoord of sexual assault during a recent…
One of Los Angeles Lakers' superstar LeBron James' most sought-after kicks will finally be available to the public.
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