Al Bell Co-Owner of Stax Records, Frayser Boy and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell joined Roland Martin Wednesday on “NewsOne Now” to discuss the new documentary “Take Me…
Newly released video shows how a simple traffic stop led to police firing at a minivan full of children. The Tennessee mother who was driving that minivan and her 14-year-old son are now facing charges in New Mexico, and the state police officers involved are under investigation. The incident began when Oriana Ferrell was pulled […]
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and of the March on Washington, Kino Lorber will release a newly restored and re-mastered edition of Oscar-nominated documentary “King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery To Memphis.” The updated version of the 1970 film will get a special one-night, multi-city screening […]
BORN: At Memphis, Tennessee based Stax Records in 1966 – they were the label’s house band, backing folks like Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas, Booker T. and The M.G.’s and Otis Redding. BIG BREAK: Their first solo hit, “Soul Finger” which was released in 1966. BACK STORY: The original Bar-Kays were tragically forced to regroup after four of […]
A kindergarten teacher in Memphis, Tenn., has been suspended without pay for posting indecent comments about her students on her Facebook page, WCM-TV reports. SEE…
MEMPHIS-Memphis talk radio host Thaddeus Matthews had African American GOP candidate for Congress, Charlotte Bergmann on his show last week. Mathews bashed Bergmann as a “token negro” and refused to shake her hand, saying that he was scared her “whiteness” would rub off on him. Matthews also claimed that Bergmann had no interest in the […]
MEMPHIS — A 19-year-old man was arrested and charged with threatening a school official after police claimed he made death threats against students and teachers at a high school he previously attended. Jamal Smith was arrested at Millington High School. The school was placed on lockdown after Smith posted the death threats on Facebook. See […]
A 37-year-old Memphis, Tenn. man is in police custody after he allegedly sexually assaulted his 57-year-old mother. According to court documents, the suspect asked his mother for help changing a lightbulb, but instead he grabbed his mother from behind and raped her. Friends who didn’t want to talk on camera said the victim in this […]
MEMPHIS–A Memphis mother is angered with Galilee Memorial Gardens, for failing to identify her deceased newborn child’s grave site in a desired time. The Grio Reports: The men at the cemetery could not identify the grave site since they were out of town until 6 pm on Thursday. They marked the grave early the next […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Rewarded with the president of the United States as their commencement speaker, the graduating seniors at Booker T. Washington High School got the same advice a young Barack Obama once got himself: Keep pushing. “You’ve always been underdogs,” the president told the cheering students, clad in green and yellow gowns, from a […]
As more evidence and news develops Lorezen's Ex-Wife is becoming one of the lead suspects in his shooting death.
Lorenzen Wright's body has been found and now more questions need to be answered
