Multiple news organizations report that actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died at age 86, with outlets citing a family/spokesperson announcement posted to his official social channels. Coverage so far relays the family’s description of a brief final illness and requests for donations; public records and fuller official confirmation have not yet been published.
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop EnquirerOctober 20, 2026 SENATOBIA, Miss. — Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office has determined that an officer’s use of force in the shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified, declining prosecution in a case that has sparked months of demands for accountability. The City of Senatobia confirmed Monday […]
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop EnquirerOctober 16, 2026 Elon Musk and America PAC have agreed to settle two proposed class-action lawsuits over the billionaire’s controversial $1 million election giveaway, bringing renewed attention to whether financial incentives aimed at battleground-state voters can undermine the democratic process. According to Reuters, the parties informed a federal court […]
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop EnquirerOctober 15, 2026 A Michigan federal jury has awarded Bishop George Bloomer $62.2 million in a racial discrimination case involving The Word Network and its owner, Kevin Adell, following a dispute centered on a degrading meme depicting Adell as a pimp surrounded by Black ministers. The verdict was returned […]
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer Sean “Diddy” Combs was reportedly transported from FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey for medical treatment early Saturday, October 10, after suffering a head injury. According to Page Six, citing TMZ’s reporting, an ambulance left the federal prison around 1 a.m. Combs reportedly returned before sunrise and was […]
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop EnquirerOctober 12, 2026 OAKLAND, Calif. — Reality television personality Mackayla Paige, known to fans as Kash, was fatally shot in downtown Oakland early Sunday, October 11. She was 29. Police have arrested a woman from Richmond in connection with the shooting, KTVU reports. Officers responded shortly after 1:30 a.m. […]
By Dennis Byron, Investigative Journalist | Hip Hop EnquirerOctober 8, 2026 Three friends of Nolan Xavier Wells have filed a federal lawsuit against social media personality Trent Hall, known as Trent Out Loud, accusing him of falsely portraying them as responsible for Wells’ death and a cover-up. The 53-page complaint, filed October 7 in the […]
A Fulton County magistrate judge has approved Tyrese Gibson’s request to authorize the arrest of his ex-wife, Samantha Lee Gibson, following a hearing over allegations that she interfered with his custody rights, according to hearing details provided to Hip Hop Enquirer.
By Investigative Reporter Dennis Byron | Hip Hop EnquirerSeptember 29, 2026 Michael P. Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, has spoken on camera as the case heads back to a Massachusetts courtroom Tuesday. After weeks of scrutiny over the jury’s deadlock, his message was to turn attention to the children at […]
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer Manuel Seal, the songwriter, producer and musician whose work helped define an era of R&B and hip-hop, has died at 66. His longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri announced his passing on Sunday, September 27. A cause of death has not been publicly disclosed. Hip Hop Enquirer spoke with Seal’s […]
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer | September 26, 2026 Lil Durk won a sweeping verdict on September 11: a federal jury in Los Angeles found the Chicago rapper, whose legal name is Durk Banks, not guilty on every charge he faced in his first trial over the 2022 shooting that killed Saviay’a “Lul […]
A Jackson County, Mississippi, grand jury has declined to indict anyone in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. The decision has intensified calls for answers from his family and supporters because the central question remains unresolved: How did Nolan die?
Reporting by Dennis Byron A Los Angeles jury has delivered a historic verdict against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube, finding both tech giants liable for designing “addiction machines” that damaged a young woman’s mental health. In the bellwether case, K.G.M. v. Meta et al., jurors awarded 3 million dollars in compensatory damages to a […]
Two former Atlanta USPS mail recovery clerks admitted to stealing cash and gift cards from the mail and fraudulently obtaining $36,402 in PPP loans for a fake business. Reporting by Dennis Byron for Hip Hop Enquirer.
Reporting by Dennis Byron/Hip Hop Enquirer Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shermela J. Williams has resigned from the bench while facing possible removal over a series of misconduct findings, ending a tumultuous term that drew national attention to Fulton County’s judiciary. Fulton County judge steps down amid ethics firestorm Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shermela […]
