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✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, delivering the headlines that shape our community and beyond. This edition covers a heartbreaking search for justice, a fight over education, global unrest, a history-making moment on the tennis court, and a name from our past worth remembering. A Mother Demands Answers in Jackson In Jackson, Mississippi, Christie Spivey is grieving and searching for truth after her daughter, Tasia […]

Source: Douglas Rissing / Getty On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments in Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a lawsuit that seeks to ban using telehealth for abortions —both in states where abortion is presently illegal AND where it’s legal.  And it’s state versus state again, harkening back to a big bad time for our nation. And though I am […]

Source: Anadolu / Getty What happens when you put immature people with automatic weapons and too much time on their hands on the streets of the nation’s capital?  Well, you might get the case of the 21-year-old National Guardsman who is sitting in the D.C. jail for drawing a gun on a fellow guardsman over … hairstyles.  But you know it’s not quite that.  According to court documents, on Aug. […]

Although Troi Torain has long since been his own independent media entity for years, his early days as part of the Star & Buc Wild duo. By way of his current YouTube show, Troi Torain shared that Timothy “Buc Wild” Joseph has passed away at the age of 47. By way of The Star Report, Torain titled his latest dispatch “Timothy ‘BUC WILD’ Joseph celebration of life 1/3/79 – 9/6/26.” […]

Source: The Washington Post / Getty Peace is priceless.  I don’t care if what you’re doing is for the bag, the community, the family, friends, your ego, or the culture, if it is robbing you of peace (which will rob you of years), it ain’t worth it. So I repeat: Peace is priceless.  Unfortunately, the price of peace in this case is that the current administration gets to make history […]

Source: Rob Carr / Getty Towson University is expanding its affordability efforts with a new Mid-Atlantic tuition rate designed for undergraduate students living in states and districts near Maryland. The new tuition option is part of TU’s effort to increase access to higher education while attracting students from across the Mid-Atlantic region. University officials say the program will also help create a more diverse campus community while providing families with […]

✕ Sybil Wilkes is back with What We Need To Know, cutting through the noise to bring us the stories that shape our lives, our votes, and our future. Today’s “What We Need to Know” segment covers leadership change at the Smithsonian, a key redistricting fight in Missouri, new access at airport gates, a history-making Miss America win, and the ongoing search for a missing young Black man. Here is […]

Source: MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images / Getty A group of incarcerated people at a Kansas prison helped raise over $4,000 to help struggling families pay for meals at a local school. WKRC reports that Norton Community Schools ended the 2025-2026 school year with nearly $6,000 in debt stemming from unpaid student meals. Incarcerated people at Norton Correctional Facility heard about this and decided to raise money […]

Paras Griffin Around this time last year, rising R&B trio CitiLimitz still had fans in an uproar over their Week 1 Quarterfinals elimination during Season 20 of America’s Got Talent. Sadly, that dream has been deferred even further for one of its band members following the arrest of Deshundre Vinson in the accidental drowning of his 4-year-old nephew in Chattanooga, Tennessee. RELATED: Temptation Island Guest Caught In PA Program Lie […]