• Black Girl Trafficked for Her Skin, Eyes is Still Missing. You’ll Never Believe Who Sold Her Off

    Black Girl Trafficked for Her Skin, Eyes is Still Missing. You’ll Never Believe Who Sold Her Off

    Authorities have spent over a year looking for a 6-year-old Black girl who went missing in South Africa. However, authorities recently identified the person who was behind her disappearance which turned this missing person’s case into a straight up human trafficking investigation. The suspect in question is an even bigger plot twist to this story. Joshlin Smith went missing…

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  • Democratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional Seat

    Democratic Party Leader Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Mulls Run for Her Late Husband’s Congressional Seat

    Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, says she’s considering running for the 7th Congressional District seat that was held by her late husband, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings. “I love Baltimore city, the counties of the 7th Congressional District, and the state of Maryland,” Rockeymoore Cummings said Thursday in her first public comments about…

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  • Beto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval Office

    Beto, His Campaign Pockets Light and His Poll Numbers Low, Bows Out of His Run for the Oval Office

    Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke on Friday took himself out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, bowing to low campaign coffers and even lower poll numbers. The once-darling of the Democratic Party, who won acclaim last year when he came within mere points of beating Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in historically red Texas,…

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  • Chicago Police Will Have to Notify Dispatchers Whenever They Point a Gun at Someone: Report 

    Within the next year, any Chicago police officer who points a gun at an individual during an arrest or a street stop will have to radio in dispatchers about the incident. According to the Chicago Tribune, the decision was made after a deal was introduced between Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration and Illinois Attorney General Lisa…

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