By: Erica M. Ponder RANDALLSTOWN, Md. — Justice is finally being served after a jury came back with a verdict in less than three hours against Baltimore County police, awarding $37 million to the family of Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old woman killed in a police standoff in 2016. In August 2016, Gaines was shot and killed by Baltimore County police after live streaming the encounter with police, which lasted for hours. During the incident, her then 5-year-old son Kodi was shot t

By: Erica M. Ponder Award-winning producer and screenwriter Lena Waithe does her hometown of Chicago justice as she embodies innocent humanity and everyday struggles of the inner city in her new Showtime series The Chi. The new drama, which officially airs on Jan. 7, gives viewers a beautiful, yet raw peak into the world of young black boys and men from the city’s south side, as well as the women in their lives, as they battle their own personal conflicts while trying to hold