The Chatham County Sheriff’s Office has appointed McArthur Holmes as chief deputy, marking the first time a Black officer has held the role since the agency was founded in 1732. Sheriff Richard Coleman, the county’s first Black sheriff, announced the historic promotion and presided over Holmes’ pinning ceremony on Sept. 23. “Some things in life […]
The death of conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk has exposed sharp political and theological rifts, including within Black churches, as clergy debate how faith should respond to a figure celebrated by the right and criticized by others for incendiary rhetoric. Several pastors condemned efforts by conservative politicians to cast Kirk as a champion of Christian values […]
Boston officials have approved a $150,000 settlement for Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, two Black men wrongly identified in the 1989 killing of Carol Stuart, a pregnant white woman whose husband, Charles Stuart, later emerged as the orchestrator of the crime. Under the agreement, Bennett will receive $100,000 and Swanson $50,000. Their wrongful implication, based […]
A Jamaican national, Orville Etoria, who spent two months in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini after being deported there under a U.S. “third-country” removal program, has been returned to Jamaica, officials confirmed. Etoria was repatriated on September 21 with assistance from the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM), an Eswatini government spokesperson said. His […]
Claudienne Hibbert-Smith, founder and CEO of TRU Real Estate Exchange Elite, has been honored by the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) with its Top Teams Award after her Miami-based group recorded $377 million in sales volume in 2024. The recognition places Hibbert-Smith and her team among the nation’s elite and highlights their focus […]
