When fights broke out in three housing units at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina, officers were met with a challenge. They were not able to seize control of the prison until 7 ½ hours, 17 injuries, and at least seven casualties later. On Sunday (April 15), fights commenced at 7:15 p.m. and came to a halt on Monday at 2:55 a.m., the NY Times reports. The maximum-security prison, according to SC corrections authorities, became subject to hours of rioting, rioting that they could not stop.

Trevell Coleman, better known as G. Dep, is now speaking out about his sentencing for murdering a man 16 years ago. The “Special Delivery” rapper was sentenced on May 8, 2012 and is serving 15 years to life in prison. ABC’s Deborah Roberts conducted a jailhouse interview with G. Dep who went into detail as he recounts the night he fatally robbed a stranger, confessing to the police in 2010, and exactly why he came forward as the gunman in the cold-case.

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz‘s youngest son, Genesis, made it his business to protect his mother amid rowdy concert-goers disrespecting artists as of late. Proud pop Swizzy shared the footage to his Instagram page Monday, praising his son for insisting he be on-stage with his mom during her latest Keys To The Summer Tour stop, believing his presence would likely discourage anyone from getting too disrespectful. “My boy said I’m not playing no games on moms stage.

American singer and actress Anika Noni Rose, recently starring in the remake of ‘Roots,’ will be producing and starring in the new Shirley Chisholm biopic. The film will showcase Chisholm’s life, giving insight on black girl magic, and the reason why black girls rock. Shirley Chisholm was not only the first African American woman to be elected into the U.S. Congress, serving seven terms in New York’s 12th Congressional District, but she was the first African American to run for president in 1972.

Allegations that the “Fuck Compton” rapper faked his own death become a legal matter, proof wanted Last week we brought you the unusual story of Tim Dog, the gangsta-provocateur turned Internet-scammer who reportedly died of diabetes-related causes on February 14 — unless he didn’t. One of the known victims of his dating service hustle recently suggested that Timothy Blair may have faked his own death in order to escape his debts.