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Law enforcement has arrested a 25-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife’s new fiancé in Salem, Virginia. The suspect, identified as Zane Christian, 25, reportedly approached his estranged wife and the victim, Rico Turner, 27, on Nov. 9, while they were walking through the Lakeside Shopping Center in Salem with three children, WSLS…

Residents are calling for the immediate resignation of the mayor of a small Virginia town after a flagrantly racist post appeared on his Facebook Page. Council members joined the herd of outraged denizens calling for Mayor Barry Presgraves to step down as the CEO of the Luray, Virginia, after the following inflammatory message was found…

Rapper Pretty Savage stopped by rolling out studios while on the GHerbo PTSD tour. She sat down with Romeo International of REMIXX to explain why she is an “emotional gangsta.”

Thousands of people decided to spend the MLK Day holiday marching through the streets of Richmond, Virginia, with guns. The Virginia gun rally, organized by Virginia Citizens Defense League, was purportedly about protecting Second Amendment rights. The rally was supported by the president of the United States. The group planned the rally to encourage state…

An 8-year-old girl was traumatized after she was forced to strip by prison guards. The incident occurred several days before Thanksgiving at Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Virginia, according to The Virginian-Pilot. Diamond Peerman drove two hours from Hampton to the facility with the hopes of visiting her boyfriend, who is currently a prisoner. Peerman…

Rickey Jasper II is an entrepreneur who runs a faith-based athleisure company called Four Thirteen Apparel. The Ashburn, Virginia, native, who currently resides in San Diego, California, graduated with a bachelor’s in computer information systems from James Madison University. Read on to find out more about Jasper’s venture. What is your day-to-day routine like at…

During his 52 years of practicing criminal law in Virginia, Peter M. Baskin has defended everything from parking tickets to capital murder. Aside from his daily court cases, he has written on criminal practice techniques for professional journals and newsletters and instructed lawyers at continuing legal education seminars in various subjects pertaining to criminal and…

A White 61-year-old lawmaker recently won an election years after he faced charges for having sex with a 17-year-old Black girl. On June 11, 2019, Joe Morrissey defeated incumbent Sen. Rosalyn Dance in a state Senate primary that took place in Richmond, Virginia. The win comes five years after Morrissey pleaded guilty to having sex…

Hailing from Virginia, Instagram sensation Darren Fleet is taking the comedy world by storm. With his videos garnering millions of views, Fleet is using his comedy to relate to people in his own way. How would define your personal brand? I would say funny, of course, chic because I like to look good, intelligent because…

Daniel Borden will spend the next four years behind bars after being convicted of beating a Black man, DeAndre Harris, at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Borden, 20, was one of six men who attacked Harris, 20 at the time, in a parking garage while the rally was occurring. He and the racist men beat Harris…

Some White people continue to abuse the justice system by calling the police on Blacks for non-threatening issues. This time, it was for playing basketball while Black. On Monday, the police were called after a White man was allegedly fouled during a pick-up basketball game at L.A. Fitness in Sterling, Virginia. According to Twitter posts…

A soccer tournament in Virginia Beach, Virginia, reportedly devolved into an on-field assault against a Black teen by a White out-of-control U.S. Navy dad. It was a close game at the North American Sand Soccer Championship (NASSC), which up to 10,000 people have attended in the past. According to witnesses, the score was 5-4 during one…

A woman missing for days near her home in Goochland, Virginia, was killed and eaten by her pit bulls according to law enforcement. Bethany Lynn Stephens, 22, was a small framed woman weighing around 125 pounds. According to her father, she went for a walk in the woods with her dogs and never came back…

“It is the mission of the Charlottesville Police Department to serve, protect, and improve the quality of life for those who reside, work, and visit in our community,” Al S. Thomas Jr, outgoing police chief of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, said in his bio on the organization’s website. On Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, he…

Rhoda Young was simply “reporting live” on Facebook to her fans while on the scene of a house fire in Norfolk, Virginia. She starts her risqué and hilarious reporting on Nov. 27 like this: “We on the scene of this b***h.” Young and her cameraman capture the confession of the alleged arsonist on camera. “This…

Apparently, in York-Poquoson, Virginia, a White cop in blackface is not considered racist, according to the sheriff’s department. Last month, Deputy Jean Browning of the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office decided to celebrate Halloween by mocking Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Browning, a White woman, darkened her face and wore a red hat similar in nature to that of …

Dear America: Whatever happened to that “post-racial society” you said was coming into existence? Funny how quickly that Caucasian-created term dissolved into nothingness, like the morning mist, after Barack Obama ascended to the Oval Office. Not only did racial animus increase under Obama (including attacks on the Obamas that were never made on other first…

Angela arrived in Virginia on the slave ship named Treasurer in 1619, a short time after the privateer ship the White Lion stopped at Point Comfort, Virginia. Angela was a servant in the household of Captain William Pierce and appeared on the Muster Roll of 1625. The discovery was made when Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists, in partnership with the…

An Italian navigator, Christopher Columbus, sailed to the Americas on behalf of Spain in 1492. He first sailed west when the Catholic Monarchs – Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon – funded his three ships: the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria setting sail on August 3, 1492. He was trying…