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Marsha Steward, who claims to be the cousin of Michael Jackson, was allegedly on the scene and in his house the day he took a deadly shot of propofol. And according to a video that recently surfaced, she allegedly collected a parting gift that has been in her possession ever since. Stewart apparently got off…

A Texas woman claiming to the mother of rapper Future’s child has been relentless in her efforts to prove he is the father. The Blast says Cindy Parker already has tried on multiple occasions to have Future, whose real name is Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, served with court papers that would require him to take a…

One of the alleged mother’s of Future’s child accuses the veteran rapper of trying to bribe her with a large bag to keep the kid’s real identity quiet. Cindy Parker, as rolling out reported last week, joined Eliza Seraphin (who also goes by Eliza Reign) in posting the DNA results that prove overwhelmingly that their…

There are continuing developments in the story of 29-year-old comatose woman who gave birth recently to a baby boy. Providers at Hacienda Healthcare in Phoenix were shocked when the woman, who had been a vegetative state for several years, went into labor on Dec. 29, 2018. According to the facility, they had no idea the…

A tweet by Kim Kardashian this past Sunday may mean new hope for California death row inmate Kevin Cooper. Cooper has been on death row since he was convicted in 1985 of a quadruple murder of a family in the Chino Hills suburb of Los Angeles. The crime scene was bloody and brutal. Law enforcement insists…

in 1976, a single strand of hair tied Ledura Watkins to the robbery and murder of a woman in Detroit. An FBI lab technician gave the evidence during his murder trial and at the age of 21, Watkins was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Now after 40 years in a Michigan…

After dropping the highly criticized video for “Humble,” Kung Fu Kenny has roared back with his fourth studio album, DAMN, and the video for “DNA.” The video starts off with Don Cheadle and Kendrick Lamar facing off in a gory dungeon-like basement. After pressing a button on the intricate machine located on the table, Cheadle…

Don Cheadle gets possessed by Kendrick Lamar in new video “DNA.”

In They Still Live, Denver-based artists Thomas “Detour” Evans and Tya Alisa Anthony present a series combining DNA, African relics and African Americans in Denver. For the project, Evans and Anthony had each model conduct DNA testing provided by Ancestry.com. Based on the results, models were then photographed with pieces from the Paul Hamilton collection of African art…

Carlin Q. Williams, 39, filed legal documents last month claiming his mom met Prince in the lobby of the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri back in July 1976. Carlin’s mom, Marsha Henson, said in an affidavit she drank wine, checked into a room, and had unprotected sex with the singer. She stated that…

California is set to execute death row inmate Kevin Cooper for a brutal murder that occurred in 1983. Cooper was sentenced to death in 1985 for the brutal murder of a family in the Chino Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Law enforcement insists that Cooper killed Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter Jessica, and…

In the past when a Black woman accused a White man of rape and an all-White jury was selected, it did not bode well for the woman’s case. Historically, Black women raped by a White men seem to have an extra hurdle to jump when trying to convince a jury that their allegations are true. The…

For thousands of years we as a society have struggled to find new ways of marginalizing people into the most arbitrary little boxes in order to justify our pretentious preconception that we are somehow better than our peers. We have used our religions, philosophies, and most notably our skin color as mere pretext in our…

BET and Benny Boom took us back home to the days when Big Tigger was in the basement (literally) on the show “Rap City.” The #instabooth was a big hit at the end of the green carpet for the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards show. Inside the booth were a DJ on the turntables and Big Tigger managing the…

When Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary coined the term Post Traumatic Slave Disorder in 2006 to describe the lingering effects of slavery on Blacks in America, she was met with ridicule by mainstream media pundits and academic critics. Her book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing spelled out in detail how overt…

2015 marks the 75th anniversary of Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center.

Michael Phillips

Almost 14 years ago, Michael Phillips of Dallas, Texas, was accused of a crime he did not commit. Now, thanks to the testing of a DNA rape kit, he has been cleared of all charges. In 1990, Phillips was accused of raping a 16-year-old girl at a hotel where he lived and worked. The victim…

Wayne Rudolph Davidson

Wayne Davidson is the author of When Clans Collide: The Germination of Adam’s Family Tree through Surname, Life Experience, and DNA. This book traces the ancestry of his name Davidson in America, Europe and Africa. During his research he has found that his family tree is connected to George Washington by marriage and other notable…

Associates of singer Brandon Howard have claimed that the singer is the son of late pop superstar Michael Jackson. And according to a recent DNA test, it looks like friends of the 31-year old may be telling the truth. It was reported by TMZ that a DNA test would be performed to determine whether or not Howard, who goes by the stage name of B. Howard, is actually MJ’s kid with R&B singer Miki Howard.

Future has a “new” son. A new 10 year old son.