A missing Chicago infant has not been found, but authorities believe he was killed and dumped in a knapsack in an undisclosed area. ABC Chicago is reporting one-year-old Bryeon Hunter was beaten to death with a belt and plastic hangers by his mother Lakeisha Baker and her boyfriend Michael Scott. The couple left him overnight…
Cicero-North Syracuse High School in Cicero, New York, is preparing a theatrical performance of “The Wiz.” Students have been practicing for weeks, belting tunes performed by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson down the Yellow Brick Down. But none of the featured cast in a beloved black American classic is black. Parents are outraged and the…
A father out of Detroit has been paying child support for his son who died 25 years ago. Lional Campbell’s continues with monthly installments for his son, Michael, and is fighting to be absolved of the duty. Lional Campbell’s son, Michael, died at the age of 3 from meningitis. Campbell, who is originally from Detroit, currently lives in Kentucky…
A nurse from Michigan is claiming that she was treated unfairly and is suing a hospital after it agreed to a man’s request that his baby not be cared for by an African-American. Tonya Battle, who has worked at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan for 25 years, filed a lawsuit against her managers for…
233 – The current number of mostly young lives lost to the Kiss Night Club fire in Santa Maria, Brazil. Nearly a hundred remain under medical treatment. The setting for this disaster was a university party. The evening was marked with music, dancing, and then what proved to be a lethal display of fireworks by…
TMZ doesn’t claim to be a beacon of journalistic integrity, but their latest offense may have crossed the line. The celebrity gossip and entertainment news website posted a video of the murder of Andre Lowe, a 19 year-old teenager from Los Angeles who was tragically shot and killed outside a Hollywood nightclub. The article is…
It’s been a difficult day, Clutchettes. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families that were affected by today’s tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. If this does not serve as a catalyst for our country to have a serious conversation about America’s culture of violence and the need for…
Want to know what the lives of America’s best athletes are really like when they stop playing ball? Don’t look for Gucci-wearing housewives in this new tele-drama. The Last Fall is a television sports drama that showcases the challenges that young and coming-of-age NFL players face once their professional football careers end at the age of…
It’s been five months since 35-year-old Alesia Thomas died in police custody last July and her family is still at a loss for answers. Thomas, who struggled with drug addiction, died in the back of a police car after having her hands and feet bound by officers. The incident was captured on an officer’s dash-cam,…
Shelly Frey, a 27-year-old mother of two, was shot and killed by an off duty police officer who was working as a security guard at a Walmart in Houston, Texas. Frey was suspected of shoplifting, an accusation that led to her untimely death. According to police, Frey and two other women, Tisa Andrews and Yolanda…
