Former NFL quarterback Vince Young’s life was supposed to be golden. He was the man at the University of Texas who led the Longhorns to a national championship with a game-winning nine-yard TD run on fourth down. He was a first-round pick by the Tennessee Titans in 2006, and he reportedly signed a five-year deal…

Where is Lil Za when Justin Bieber needs him? On Thursday the controversial crooner of top 40 pop ballads was arrested in Miami Beach for drag racing with his yellow Lamborghini and failing a sobriety test earlier that day, the Associated Press reports. The 19-year-old singer’s arrest was confirmed in a tweet from the Miami…

An Ohio couple charged with abandoning the 9-year-old son they adopted and raised since infancy and then allegedly returned to children’s services, saying that the child was displaying aggressive behavior, now hope to be reunited with him, the Associated Press reports. Authorities allege that Cleveland and Lisa Cox left the boy with children’s services after…

Speaking out for the first time since his mic-dropping rant after the Seattle Seahawks’ win over the San Francisco 49ers, Richard Sherman said he believes that “thug” is not-so-coded language for the n-word. “The only reason it bothers me is it seems like it’s an accepted way of calling someone the n-word nowadays. It’s like…

Using dark reds and deep oranges, George Zimmerman is painting his way back into the conversation as he is set to release another piece of original artwork. This time his muse is the special prosecutor who charged him with second-degree murder, the Associated Press reports via Yahoo News.  Zimmerman’s brother, Robert Zimmerman Jr., posted the…

A cellphone video is making the rounds on social media showing a Mississippi teacher twerking in front of a class. The video shows a male teacher bent over wiggling in front of another teacher. Students can be scene in the video gasping and turning away from the site of the gyrating teacher. One student can…

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is back at it again: drinking, cussing and imitating a Jamaican accent, as two new videos have emerged on YouTube that show the mayor, well, being the mayor. In one video titled “New Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Drunk, Swearing in Jamaican Patois? Bumbaclot,” the mayor is shown in a…

The 18-year-old whom Kanye West allegedly pummeled last week in a chiropractor’s waiting room for supposedly hurling racist slurs at West’s fiancee wants to settle out of court for a few hundred thousand dollars, TMZ reports. According to TMZ, sources connected with the 18-year-old tell the news site that his lawyer has contacted West’s people…

On New Year’s Eve, Dinyal New lost her 13-year-old son, Lee Weathersby III, to gun violence in East Oakland, Calif. Three weeks later her 19-year-old son, Lamar Broussard, has also been killed. Two funerals for her two babies in under a month.  “I have no more kids,” New told the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that…

Keli Goff, special correspondent for The Root, was named one of 10 new playwrights for the Public Theater’s 2014-2015 Emerging Writers Group. The Public Theater announced on Tuesday that Goff, along with nine other playwrights, was selected out of some 475 applicants to participate in the fifth cycle of the program, which cultivates talent “at…