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Memphis police arrested Billy Turner for the 2010 first-degree murder of NBA player Lorenzen Wright.

Commentary

A writer reflects on LGBT youth survival in a homophobic society.

Kidd Creole née Nathaniel Glover, founding member of the Hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, has been charged with second-degree murder without bail after fatally stabbing a homeless man. Glover believed that 55-year-old John Jolly was making a sexual advance as they passed each other on the street. The man allegedly said, “What’s up?” Glover […]

Commentary

"After Rodney King and Latasha Harlins and the L.A. Riots, I was willing to take what I could get, and a free O.J. was all that 1995 had to offer."