4-20-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer. He thought nothing of it when he and his business partner, Donte Robinson, were approached at their table and were asked if they needed help.…… MORE
4-19-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- 30 bullets entered the body of a 26-year-old Black man in California Walmart parking lot on April 5. Diante Yarber sat in his car at the parking lot when police officers arrived at the store according to Vox via a press release. Officers were called in after getting reports of a “suspicious vehicle” and tried to give a traffic stop.…… MORE
4-18-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias training for nearly 175,000 workers. How did a…… MORE
4-17-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The jury at Bill Cosby‘s sexual assault trial can hear the comedian’s decade-old testimony about giving quaaludes to women before sex, a judge ruled Tuesday, handing the prosecution a key victory in its effort to portray him as a serial predator. Judge Steven O’Neill ruled that prosecutors…… MORE
4-13-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- Marjory Stoneman High School teacher, Sean Simpson, faces criminal charges after he left his loaded 9 mm Glock gun in a public restroom. Florida Local News 10 reports Simpson left his gun in a public bathroom that was found by a drunk homeless man who fired a shot according to the Broward Sheriff’s Department. Simpson,…… MORE
4-12-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- Former President Barack Obama would like to create “a million young Barack Obamas” to run the next stage in the “relay race that is human progress,” the Washington Examiner reported. Obama made the comment Sunday at a conference in Japan while discussing the Obama Foundation’s work to help young people around…… MORE
4-11-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- It’s that time of year! College acceptances are rolling in and this brilliant teen was accepted into 19 of the world’s best universities. According to CNN, seventeen-year-old Nigerian-American student Oludamilola Oluwadara recently learned that Yale, Stanford, Columbia and the London School of Economics–to name a few–all want her to be part of…… MORE
4-10-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A topless protester with “Women’s Lives Matter” written on her body in red ink charged at Bill Cosby as he walked into a suburban Philadelphia courthouse Monday for the start of his sexual assault retrial. The woman jumped over a barricade and launched toward Cosby but was…… MORE
3-9-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY- Target settled a racial discrimination suit over its background check hiring process. The lawsuit highlights the unfair bias against Black job seekers with a criminal record, compared to Whites in the same situation. The retailer agreed on Thursday to pay $3.7 million in the class-action suit, which was brought on behalf of…… MORE
4-6-18-ERNIE ALLEN’S-TOP STORY-2018 ATLANTA (AP) — An employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was reported missing more than seven weeks ago was found drowned in a river not far from his house, with no sign of foul play, authorities said Thursday. Timothy Cunningham’s body was found Tuesday partially submerged in…… MORE
You’ll soon have two chances to learn about the career of Boyz II Men. The legendary group is developing a feature film biopic. Boyz II Men are also working on a long-form documentary about their lives. The best-selling R&B group of all time has over 60 million albums sold.
Dick Van Dyke is turning 99-years-old next month and says the one good thing about not having much time left is that he won’t have to endure another four years of President Donald Trump. The legendary actor, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris just before the election, was asked by a reporter if he thinks…
Denzel Washington will visit Wakanda. On Tuesday, Washington announced that he will be starring in the third Black Panther movie. He said, “I’m only interested in working with the best — I don’t know how many more films I’m going to make, probably not that many. I want to do things I haven’t done.” Washington…
Now that the election is over, Plies is coming hard for his sisters-in-Kamala Harris — filing a lawsuit against Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla, and Cardi B for copyright infringement!!! And according to Plies, Soulja Boy can’t claim “first” to using the beat on one of his big tracks … which he says was taken from…