Posts Tagged ‘pardon’
Lil Wayne drops new song after presidential pardon
Lil Wayne has released his first new music since being pardoned by Donald Trump. The former U.S. president pardoned more than 100 people during his last day in office on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, including the 38-year-old rap star, who had pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a loaded weapon on a private jet. Two days…
Read MoreDonald Trump pardons big-name rappers and others on last day as president
As many political connoisseurs suspected, outgoing President Donald Trump freed dozens of convicted criminals and indicted suspects serving time in prisons and jails across the country on his last day in office. Trump pardoned 73 people and commuted the sentences of another 70 convicted inmates, according to Detroit Free Press. Among the beneficiaries of Trump’s…
Read MoreSnoop Dogg secretly trying to get Death Row co-founder pardoned
As that age-old axiom goes, politics really does make strange bedfellows. Snoop Dogg, who has roared with intensity about his hatred of Donald Trump on many occasions, is now in need of the outgoing commander-in-chief’s presidential pardon powers. On the eve of Trump leaving the White House for the final time on Wednesday, Jan. 2o,…
Read MoreKodak Black vents about severe depression and loose grip on sanity in prison
Kodak Black is letting his fans know that he is really struggling to try to serve out his federal prison sentence. Black indicated to his 3.4 million Twitter followers that being locked up and isolated is having a very detrimental impact on his emotional state, as well as his sanity. Lonely. Sad. Depressed. Pray For…
Read MoreTrump may pardon Lil Wayne and Kodak Black
Lil Wayne may have faced an impossible choice in the fall of 2020: incur the wrath of millions by publicly supporting Donald Trump’s reelection, or quietly vote for Joe Biden and serve 10 years in prison. We know what decision 38-year-old New Orleans-born Dwayne Carter Jr. made. Wayne is among a handful of people, that…
Read MoreFlorida finally pardons 4 Black men falsely accused of rape in 1949
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s three-member cabinet granted posthumous pardons on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, to four Black men accused of raping a White woman in a 1949 case now viewed as a gross miscarriage of justice. The case became known as the Groveland Four and has long been considered a dark stain…
Read MoreCyntoia Brown to be released from prison
There has been a new development in the case of Cyntoia Brown, who at the age of 16 was convicted of murder. After renewed interest in her case received international attention, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has made a dramatic announcement that means freedom for Brown. In a statement released today, Jan. 7, 2019, by the…
Read MoreCyntoia Brown not among the 11 prisoners pardoned by Tennessee governor
With the supporters and opponents of Cyntoia Brown watching closely, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam commuted the sentences of 11 prisoners this past week. However, the list did not include Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for murdering the man who allegedly used her as a sex slave. Gov. Haslam explained his…
Read MoreTrump may pardon Muhammad Ali next, but what about Assata Shakur?
On the heels of the recent commutation and release of convicted drug offender Alice Marie Johnson, President Trump is now considering a posthumous pardon for boxing legend and humanitarian Muhammad Ali. According to CNN, at a press conference this morning Trump dropped the following bombshell “I’m thinking about Muhammad Ali. I’m thinking about that very seriously…
Read MoreKim Kardashian West seeks pardon from President Donald Trump today
A source has told TMZ that the 37-year-old reality TV star and her legal advisor, Shawn Holley, have booked a meeting with President Donald Trump today to seek a pardon for imprisoned great-grandmother, Alice Marie Johnson, currently being held at Aliceville Correctional Facility in Alabama. Kim has been trying since last year to find a way to get…
Read MoreObama commutes Chelsea Manning’s sentence. Is Assata Shakur next?
President Barack Obama has been in the news because of his historic granting of pardons and clemency to hundreds of federal prisoners. This week, he announced that former serviceman Bradley Manning, now Chelsea Manning, will see a reduction in the 35-year sentence the transgendered soldier received. So far, manning has served about seven years of…
Read MorePresident Obama makes history with latest pardons
There are many things that President Barack Obama has done during his term in office that have directly impacted and benefited the lives of individual Americans. One of these accomplishments is doing his part to correct past injustices within the judicial system of the United States with presidential pardons and clemencies. On Monday, President Obama…
Read MoreHelp pardon autistic 11-year-old Kayleb Moon-Robinson
It is estimated that 1 in 81 Black children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Boys are diagnosed at a rate five times higher than girls. Unfortunately, this also means that many Black boys are often disciplined more harshly than others with the disorder. Such is the case for Kayleb Moon-Robinson of Virginia who is…
Read MoreBlack Mom Jailed for Illegally Enrolling Her Kids in Better School Denied Pardon
Amid all the rhetoric in this country about how lower-income black parents supposedly don’t care about or participate in their children’s education, Kelley Williams-Bolar was so concerned about the quality and safety of the school in her neighborhood, she used her father’s nearby address to enroll her two daughters in a better one. She went…
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