An 18-year-old Pittsburgh teen that was violently beaten by police with his dreadlocks ripped out is filing a lawsuit against his attackers. Jordan Miles and his family have decided to file a federal lawsuit against the three white Pittsburgh police officers that he says beat him and conspired to file false charges against him [...]

Would you cough up that much cash for a cell phone? Yeah, we wouldn’t either. But aren’t you curious to find out what makes this phone so special? You can thank the fine folks at Gresso for creating a utterly useless piece of opulence for the filthy, disgustingly rich to spend their not-so hard-earned [...]

OJ Simpson’s daughter Arnelle Simpson is suspected of laundering money for her felon dad. Arnelle, 41, is the target of legal action, accusing her of laundering money for her dad. The lawsuit, filed in Miami federal court, accuses Arnelle of hiding and spending the estimated $780,000 O.J. received as an advance for [...]

The New York Yankees have taken their relationship with Jay-Z to a whole new level. After adopting the rap mogul’s “Empire State of Mind” as its unofficial anthem last fall, the ballclub has now teamed with its No. 1 fan to sell co-branded clothing that will only be available at Yankee Stadium for a [...]

Conservative radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck is hosting a rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech — but he says the date was not chosen intentionally. “Whites don’t own Abraham Lincoln,” Beck said in a recent broadcast of his Fox [...]

The numbers are staggering. The problem is overwhelming. The government reported Thursday that in the past year, 4.4 percent of inmates in prison and 3.1 percent of inmates in jail report being victimized sexually by another inmate or staff member. According to a study by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, those [...]

DEA agents made a huge discovery in San Diego County, recovering 25,000 marijuana plants with a street value of $100 million. Drug Enforcement officials announced Wednesday that they made the discovery during a raid on the Santa Ysabel Indian Reservation. Officials say this is the second largest marijuana field found this year in [...]

A chiropractor in Iowa was charged with misdemeanor assault after a patient reported to authorities that he allegedly ejaculated on her during her session. According to published reports, Dr. Dan Duffy was charged with simple misdemeanor assault after a female patient filed a complaint that during her examination Duffy masturbated after massaging her lower [...]

Atlanta has the third largest gay population in the country, fueled, in part, by its large black gay population. On Wednesday, the city’s annual Black Gay Pride organizer, Durand Robinson (pictured middle), was found shot dead in the middle of an Atlanta street. It hasn’t been determined whether his murder is being investigated [...]

A while ago we showed you an awesome video featuring self-lacing sneakers. Turns out that Nike thought it was just as awesome and has filed for a patent on the design. Are you having “Back to the Future” flashbacks yet, because I definitely am. Nike filed the patent last year, including an abstract that [...]

A woman and her teen daughter were shot and killed early Thursday morning in Hialeah by the daughter’s ex-boyfriend, who then killed himself. Lisset Perez, 15, and Vivian Albeto, 39, were gunned down by 21-year-old gunman Adalberto Torres in a parking lot outside an apartment complex at around 6 a.m. The gunman fled [...]

George Wilborn, the famed co-host of the popular Michael Baisden Show, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against a Chicago couple who refused to sell him a home because of the color of his skin. Wilborn and his wife were attempting to buy a $1.7 million home from Daniel and Adrienne Sabbia, a white [...]

Ok not exactly. It’s the toilet posture that can really mess with your health. A new report from Time Magazine says sitting on the toilet isn’t our true nature. We were meant to squat. Toilets are relatively new, the article says, and it might be unhealthy. They say the squat position wards [...]

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is the new host of the news magazine series ‘Our World With Black Enterprise’. The 30-minute weekly program airs in national syndication on weekends, as well as on the TV One cable network. The Philadelphia-bred cultural anthropologist, who regularly offers political and social commentaries on networks like CNN, Fox [...]

After a nearly two-week trial, Nadja Benaissa was found guilty of concealing her HIV status but she won’t do any jail time. A court in Germany spared the 28-year-old of jail time, and instead sentenced her to a two-year suspended sentence. Benaissa was on trial for grievous bodily harm and attempted aggravated assault. [...]

The first thing on Colondra’s (deep sigh) mind should have been getting her new growth situation handled – not handling herself. An Elmwood Place police officer who stopped a car because it had illegally tinted windows received a bit of a shock when he looked inside. Officer Ross Gilbert said the driver, [...]

Apple is in talks with several media companies, including News Corp. and Disney, to offer TV shows for rent through iTunes for only 99 cents. That means whenever the feeling hits you, you would be able to watch whatever TV show what you want, when you want … for up to 48 hours, that [...]

An Apex, North Carolina woman has been receiving threatening phone calls after she says she got a Domino’s delivery man fired for giving her a receipt that read, “n*gger don’t tip.” The customer says she received two Domino’s pizzas from the restaurant when her 10-year-old niece pointed out the racist line printed [...]

A 13-year-old boy in Chicago has been charged with battery after police state that he allegedly poured acid on the head of two other children. The unnamed teenager allegedly pored the sulfuric acid on 11-year-old , Nala Armstrong and 10-year-old Adrian Bennett while they were playing in the grass below. In police [...]

A Mississippi woman has been arrested after police say she took sexually explicit pictures of her young sons to send to her online lover. Angela Marie Shoemake was arrested last week after her boyfriend told police he found pornographic pictures of her 8 and 6-year-old sons on her computer. Authorities say Shoemake was [...]