Nate Parker and his Birth of a Nation film have some supporters, but many are having a hard time backing the movie after his 1999 rape case was dug up.

A NJ mother filed a lawsuit against William Paterson University, alleging the school mishandled her daughter's rape accusation.

Robinson, a former member of the Riverdale Police Department, was formally charged with rape and sexual assault against a person in custody on Wednesday.

When Nate Parker debuted his film, Birth Of A Nation, which he starred in, directed and produced, it got rave reviews. It pulled in a historic distribution deal with Fox Searchlight, which, at $17.5 Million dollars, is the highest in Sundance Film Festival history. The film was on track to really clean up at the […]

  Brock Turner, a swimmer at Stanford University, has been convicted of raping an unconscious woman. His sentence? About 6 months, because the California judge who tried him thought a longer sentence would be too damaging to him. Meanwhile, across the country, many young black people are receiving harsh sentences for crimes they did not commit, or […]

John R.K. Howard, 18, is named in the suit as the ringleader. The family claims their child suffered multiple abuses at the hands of Howard.

“I screamed,” the victim testified. “I was pretty upset. I felt really bad. A little bit betrayed and confused at the same time. It was terrible — a pain I’ve never felt, " the victim said in court.

Jelani Maraj, Nicki Minaj's brother, has been indicted on first-degree rape charges.

The sexual abuse allegations against R. Kelly have plagued his career since the early 2000s.

On Monday, two of the suspects claimed they had consensual sex with the teen after asking her 39-year-old dad for permission.