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Idris Elba is “stuck in limbo” after fighting through coronavirus. The former “Wire” star and his wife, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, both tested positive for the virus earlier this month but have had few symptoms. Now that their quarantine period is over, they were keen to return to London from New Mexico but have been unable…

Lance Robertson is a man who wears many hats, from entrepreneur to community leader. He is the co-founder and president of Amerigreen Organics Co., a limited liability company headquartered in New Mexico that was established earlier this year as a commercial farmer and producer of industrial hemp. The Amerigreen Organics CBD franchise is currently building…

The quest for a youthful appearance has led to at least two known HIV infections at a spa located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The clients of the VIP SPA both contracted the same strain of HIV after undergoing a ‘Vampire Facial’, made popular by reality star Kim Kardashian. The procedure entails drawing blood from a…

A transgender shopper went volcanic on a game store worker when the employee used the wrong title to address her. The unidentified woman exploded on the male employee, who made the innocuous error of addressing her as “sir” instead of “ma’am” at a GameStop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The transgender customer had just purchased an…

Officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have shut down the VIP Spa, located at 809 Tijeras Avenue, after serious health code violations. At issue is the spa offering a procedure called Vampire Facials. The procedure involves extracting blood from an individual and injecting it into their face. This method reportedly gives a person a more youthful appearance,…

The story of a group of Muslims and the death of a 3-year-old child on a makeshift New Mexico compound is getting even stranger. Last week, rolling out reported the story of Atlanta area man Siraj Wahhaj, 39, who took his medically fragile son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, 3, from his home in Clayton County, Georgia. Wahhaj did not…

Something bad happened on a tiny makeshift compound in the New Mexico desert and it ultimately ended in death. As previously reported by rolling out, an Atlanta area man named Siraj Wahhaj, 39, and his disabled 3-year-old son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, left Georgia sometime in December. Wahhaj had not informed the boy’s mother that he was…

Orthodox Muslims in the Black community are in shock after news that the son of America’s most well-known Muslim leaders is implicated in what some would describe as a cult and now the death of a child. Earlier this week, rolling out reported on the story of Siraj Wahhaj, 39, and his disabled 3-year-old son, Abdul- Ghani…

Since December 2017, police have been looking for an Atlanta, Georgia, area man named, Siraj Wahhaj, 39, and his disabled 3-year-old son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj. The father took the boy from a hotel in December and told the mother he was going to take his son to a local park. The pair never returned and the child’s…

An un-smooth criminal out in Albuquerque, New Mexico got pummeled into submission after trying to rob the wrong group of friends. The players said they saw Angelo Martinez hanging around the Loma Linda Community Center football field, but had no idea who he was, according to the television station KOAT. When they walked to their…

According to the family of Ben Anthony C de Baca, 47, their loved one died at the hands of uncaring police officers in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, in September 2015. De Baca had a history of mental illness and was acting erratically at a Wal-Mart when police were called to the scene. Earlier in the…

A New Mexico mother has been ordered to stand trial for incest after a state judge refused to dismiss charges. Monica Mares, 36, had not seen her son Caleb Peterson, 19, since he was an infant. Mares was 16 when she gave up her son for adoption. Mares made contact with her son through Facebook…

A teacher in New Mexico has been reprimanded for a racist remark he made to his student. According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred at Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho, N.M. Students were told that they could come to class dressed as Santa Claus, a reindeer or an elf. However, when a white…

Police officers humiliated an innocent man in Deming, New Mexico while searching for drugs they never found. According to a report by KOB News 4, Davide Eckert was stopped by police after he left Wal-Mart on Jan. 2. Police told Eckert’s that he failed to completely stop at a stop sign. But during the traffic…

High school graduation rates were reaching an all time low last year. As they slowly begin to increase, let’s look back to see which states had the lowest graduation rates in the country. Click here to see if your state made the list.

Do you live in one of the smartest states or one of the dumbest? Or are you somewhere in between? Even if you don’t want to know, Main Street released a study based on a comprehensive study from 2007 released by Morgan Quitno Press, an independent research company that specializes in state data. They took into…

The mojito — which was has been all the rage for savvy and sophisticated summer partiers — took over the cocktail spotlight with a vengeance over the past few years. The drink, which is actually a traditional Cuban highball, became wildly popular because of its versatility and the many variations of mojitos offered in restaurants…

Around the media world and blogosphere, I incessantly see articles suggesting how Barack Obama has assured a victory in the 2012 presidential election after his decision to go into Pakistan and kill Osama bin Laden. Now, I, too, wrote a piece some weeks ago asserting six reasons why he had the inside road to winning…