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No Sir, Not Me: Black Waiter Forced To Serve Confederate Flag-Wearing Diners
A waiter at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Ohio was subjected to racial abuse by a group of Confederate flag-wearing diners over the weekend. Video of the incident was uploaded by a co-worker, which captures the obnoxious party repeatedly using the N-word. The post No Sir, Not Me: Black Waiter Forced To Serve Confederate Flag-Wearing Diners appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Again: Orlando Brown Arrested For Alleged Domestic Violence
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Theo Wargo / Getty Orlando Brown is once again making headlines in a troublesome fashion as he’s been booked on a charge of domestic violence in Ohio. According to reports, the former That’s So Raven star was detained by officers who reported to a report of a fight in progress on Thursday morning (Dec. 22nd) in Lima, Ohio. As they arrived, they found Brown involved in an altercation with a family member at the residence, which was revealed to be his brother Matthew. The former actor was arrested with the charge of “domestic violence – cause belief of imminent physical harm by the threat of force.” Brown is currently being held at the Allen County Sheriff’s Office without a bond being set. When contacted by TMZ, Matthew Brown stated that the 35-year-old tr...
#DonovanLewis: Cops Shoot & Kill Unarmed Columbus Man Donovan Lewis
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 31 mins ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
#JaylandWalker: Jayland Walker Reportedly Shot 60 Times By Akron Police, Details Are Scant
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty Jayland Walker is the latest victim of a police-related shooting, and the event’s details are still developing. Walker was reportedly a DoorDash driver who was stopped for a traffic violation, but things went left when eight officers fired 90 shots and reportedly struck him 60 times. Local outlet WKYC obtained details of the shooting including an autopsy of Walker’s body, confirming that he was indeed hit with several bullets after police fired over 90 shots following a traffic chase this past Monday (June 27) in Akron, Ohio. The excessive barrage of gunfire caught the ire and criticism of activists both on the ground and online, and it’s since come out that Walker was unarmed. Police bodycam footage of the shooting has not bee...
Bitcoin-friendly Republican candidate JD Vance wins Ohio Senate primary
JD Vance has won the Ohio Republican Senate primary election, making him the GOP’s candidate in the highly anticipated Senate race against Democrat Tim Ryan in which both parties are trotting out crypto-friendly candidates. The Guardian reported that Vance may have been pushed to victory on Tuesday by a last-minute endorsement from former President Donald Trump on Apr. 23, helping him beat out presumed front-runner, the former state treasurer Josh Mandel. Both Vance and Mandel are crypto supporters, with Mandel famously tweeting “Ohio must be a pro-God, pro-family, pro-Bitcoin state.”. Vance has disclosed Bitcoin (BTC) holdings valued at up to $250,000, which at today’s value could be about 6.5 coins according to CoinGecko. He was also backed by Bitcoin proponent and billionaire investor P...
High School Football Coach Suspended For Forcing Player To Eat Pork
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images / Getty Hazing is still a problem that exists in football along with bad behavior from some of its coaches—but, the most recent example? A high school football coach, and his staff, in Canton, Ohio have been suspended after it was learned that he forced one of his players to eat pork against his religious beliefs as a punishment. The incident occurred on May 24, the last day of classes. The senior, a rising athlete who has attracted Division I college schools, had missed a voluntary practice session with the team four days earlier. Coach Marcus Wattley decided to make him sit in the locker room surrounded by his teammates and other coaches and eat an entire pepperoni pizza as punishment even though he was fu...
Kygo, Madeon, More to Perform at Breakaway Music Festival 2021: See the Full Lineup
Ohio’s Breakaway Music Festival is officially returning this fall. Prime Social Group has unveiled that the two-day, two-stage, multi-genre festival is confirmed to light up Columbus once again at the Historic Crew Stadium on September 3rd and 4th, 2021. This will be the six-year anniversary of the event after taking the previous year off due to the pandemic. What sets Breakaway Festival apart from its counterparts is how they curate their lineup. While most event groups throw a wide net to catch any of the big-name artists of any given year, Prime Social Group curates it specifically to Columbus music fans. This year is proving to be one of their best yet with Kygo, ILLENIUM, Madeon, SOFI TUKKER, Gryffin, Channel Tres, Elderbrook, Two Feet, and many m...
Excision Announces New Ohio Bass Music Festival, Reunion
After his flagship Lost Lands festival sold out in the blink of an eye, Excision has now invited all headbangers to Ohio for a brand new festival called Reunion. He took to Twitter to announce the two-day bass music extravaganza, which is scheduled for July 16th and 17th at Legend Valley, the home of Lost Lands. According to a statement shared by the dubstep star, Reunion will not be a camping festival like its dinosaur-themed companion event, but there will be shuttles to and from Columbus hotels and free day parking to soften the blow for attendees traveling in. “Over the last year, the team and I have had a lot of time to get creative. The one thing we couldn’t stop thinking about was getting back to live shows and celebrating with you all,” Excision’s statement r...
US workers enticed with bonuses, time off to get coronavirus vaccine
As Covid-19 vaccination drives get into gear across the United States, some businesses are offering transportation, paid time off and bonuses of up to $500 to encourage workers to get the jab. Labor-intensive industries like slaughterhouses, supermarkets, and farms, whose workers are at higher risk of contracting the virus, have taken the lead, with several large grocery chains offering two to four hours of paid leave time for employees to get vaccinated. “Providing accommodations so employees can receive this critical vaccine is one more way we can support them and eliminate the need to choose between earning their wages and protecting their well-being,” Jason Hart, CEO of supermarket chain Aldi, said in January. Others have taken advantage of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention re...
COVID Crazy: Ohio Nightclub Fined For Hosting Trey Songz Show With No Social Distancing
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Die hard Trey Songz fans looked contamination in the face and didn’t blink once. He recently performed a live set in the Midwest and faced a mask less crowd. As spotted on NBC News the Petersburg, Virginia native took the stage at Club Aftermath on Saturday, December 5. While Covid-19 continues to spike throughout the country this performance threw care to the wind as the staff clearly did not enforce any social distancing policies. Photos from the event show hundreds of patrons standing very closely together. To add yet another jarring layer to the scene PPE was not enforced even with close to 500 people in the house. This high profile event landed on the Ohio Investigative Unit’s radar and naturally they spot checked the show. The agents state...
US election: Republicans hold back Democrats, narrowing path to Senate control
The battle for power in the Senate tightened into Wednesday as Democrats picked up a seat in Colorado, but suffered a setback in Alabama, and Republicans held their own in high-profile races in South Carolina, Iowa, Texas and Kansas, dramatically narrowing the political map. Republicans fought to retain their Senate majority by turning back a surge of Democrats challenging allies of President Donald Trump, and the Democrats’ various paths to seizing control were growing more limited. With several contests still too early to call, and one Georgia race heading to a January runoff, the final verdict is expected to drag on. Democrats gained a seat when ex-Gov. John Hickenlooper ousted GOP Sen. Cory Gardner in Colorado, a must-win to flip the Senate, but couldn’t hold on in Alabama, where forme...
Polls start to close in tense US presidential election
Polls in US battleground states began to close on Tuesday, inching the contest between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden to its nail-biting conclusion, following a race fought in unprecedented conditions of a global pandemic and the most deeply divided electorate in decades. At 7:00 pm (0000 GMT), voting ended in Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont, and also Georgia, a formerly rock-solid Republican state that Biden’s Democrats hope to flip. CNN and NBC already projected a win for Trump in Indiana. Parts of Florida — an even bigger electoral prize that routinely sees knife-edge elections — were also closing at 7:00 pm. Polls in the rest of the state and also in Pennsylvania, another ground zero in US presidential contests, were closing at 8:00 pm (0100 GMT). What was no...
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