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A posthumous DMX album, 'Exodus,' produced by Swizz Beatz, will be released May 28th via Def Jam Recordings. The album will mark the first DMX album since 2012’s 'Undisputed' and feature all-new original material. It will arrive nearly two months after DMX’s death, April 9th. “My brother X was one of the most pure and rare souls I’ve ever met,” Swizz Beatz said in a statement. “He lived his life dedicated to his family and music. Most of all, he was generous with his giving and loved his fans beyond measure. This album, X couldn’t wait for his fans all around the world to hear and show just how much he valued each and every single person that has supported him unconditionally.” Tap the link in bio to read more. Photo: David Goldman/@apnews
![A federal grand jury indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd on three charges of U.S. civil rights violations on Friday.
Derek Chauvin — who was recently found guilty for the murder of Floyd — and ex-officers Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao each face federal counts related to violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure, as well as their failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Chauvin was hit with an additional charge of unreasonable force by a police officer.
Lane, Thao, and Kueng — who each face trial in August for aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter — made their initial court appearances Friday via videoconference, the Associated Press reports. If convicted, each officer faces a prison sentence.
“The charges announced today are criminal, while the pattern or practice investigation [that was announced last month] is a civil investigation that will be conducted separately and independently from the criminal case, and will be handled by a different team of career staff from the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” the Justice Department said in a statement Friday.
“The federal government has a responsibility to protect the civil rights of every American and to pursue justice to the fullest extent of federal law,” Minneapolis Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement. “Federal prosecution for the violation of George Floyd’s civil rights is entirely appropriate.”
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A federal grand jury indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd on three charges of U.S. civil rights violations on Friday. Derek Chauvin — who was recently found guilty for the murder of Floyd — and ex-officers Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao each face federal counts related to violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure, as well as their failure to provide Floyd with medical care. Chauvin was hit with an additional charge of unreasonable force by a police officer. Lane, Thao, and Kueng — who each face trial in August for aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter — made their initial court appearances Friday via videoconference, the Associated Press reports. If convicted, each officer faces a prison sentence. “The charges announced today are criminal, while the pattern or practice investigation [that was announced last month] is a civil investigation that will be conducted separately and independently from the criminal case, and will be handled by a different team of career staff from the Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” the Justice Department said in a statement Friday. “The federal government has a responsibility to protect the civil rights of every American and to pursue justice to the fullest extent of federal law,” Minneapolis Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement. “Federal prosecution for the violation of George Floyd’s civil rights is entirely appropriate.” Tap the link in bio to read more. Photo: Matthew Hatcher / SOPA Images/SIPA USA/@apnews
The FBI has released a long-withheld file on Kurt Cobain. Periodically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation makes public some of its archives on politicians, entertainers, and other boldface names. And quietly last month — for reasons the Bureau has not commented on — the FBI plucked out its file on Cobain and made it available for the first time, shortly after it had done the same with paperwork on late mob boss Vito Genovese. Tap the link in bio to read more. Photo: Michel Linssen/Redferns/Getty Images
Phife Dawg was the Everyman at the heart of A Tribe Called Quest. Five years after his death, his family and friends unveil his final album and celebrate his legacy in our retrospective feature. Link in bio. Photo: @chimodu
Using stimulus from the multi-trillion-dollar CARES Act, which passed in March 2020, the Department of Justice has awarded at least $845.8 million of emergency grants to state and local law enforcement officers across the U.S. and its colonized territories. The relief has gone to more than 1,800 of these agencies, ranging from $30,000 boosters for small-town cops to tens of millions of dollars for a single police department in states like Florida and Texas. In legally required public spending reports, some of these agencies have since followed up with details on how they’re using the grant money. And though a chunk of those reported expenses cover basics like PPE, much of it subsidizes militarization, surveillance, and tech that would be funded with or without a pandemic, from encrypted radios to body cameras to a range of communications upgrades. How has so much money, which was meant to help people weather a pandemic, been redirected to America’s ever-expanding police state? Read more at the link in our bio. Photo: Travis Long/The News & Observer/@apnews
Ed Ward — a respected music critic and scholar, former 'Rolling Stone' editor, and author of several authoritative histories of the history of rock & roll — has died at the age of 72. Tap the link in bio to read more. Photo: Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
In a special, two-part Rolling Stone Interview, Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins discusses his limited-series adaptation of ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the beauty of blackness, his unique path to Hollywood, and much more. Tap the link in our bio to watch the full interview.
From family stories to band-of-misfits hangouts, classic rom-coms to workplace mockumentaries, cringe comedies to antihero showcases, and some shows that defy definition, these are the hundred series that have made us laugh, think, occasionally cry, and laugh all over again. Tap the link in bio for the 100 best sitcoms of all time. Photo Illustration by Joe Rodriguez. Images used in Illustrationspyrakot/Adobe Stock(TV's); Ed Miller/Amazon(Catastrophe); CBS Photo Archve/Getty Images,2(I Love Lucy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show); Guy D'Almea/FX(Atlanta); Fox(The Simpsons); Warner Bros/Everett Collection(Friends); Adult Swim/Everett Collection(Rick & Morty); NBC/Everett Collection, 4(The Office, Friends, Fresh Prince, Seinfeld) CBS/Everett Collection(Murphy Brown); Everett Collection(Honeymooners); CBS/Everett Collection(All in The Family); Amanda Matlovich/Hulu(Letterkenny)
This July, the Descendents will chronicle their Seventies garage-band beginnings on a new album. At the link in our bio, the surviving members of the 'Milo Goes to College' lineup — Milo Aukerman, Bill Stevenson, and Tony Lombardo — unpack the 40-year saga of '9th & Walnut.' Photo: Edward Colver
In an excerpt from our upcoming oral history of 'WandaVision,' Marvel boss Kevin Feige reveals Benedict Cumberbatch was supposed to appear in the show's finale — and explains why it didn't happen. Link in bio. Photo: © Walt Disney Studios/Everett Collection
Shelley, the musician once known as D.R.A.M., has returned with a new album. At the link in bio he discusses going by his first name and staying true to himself. Photo: Alex Harper
Who owns Selena's legacy? Selena became a crossover star after her death, and her legend only continues to grow thanks to the fans and a myth that is still carefully cultivated by her family. Yet, for the past 25 years, her fans have been questioning her family’s aggressive attempts at controlling her legacy. Now that 'Selena: The Series,' the Netflix show executive-produced by her 82-year-old father Abraham Quintanilla, has been streaming (it returns for its second season on May 4th), it’s become even more apparent to viewers that they are only getting one side of the story. Tap the link in bio to read more. Photo: Gabe Hernandez/@apnews
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