As per new reports, an associate of singer R. Kelly took a plea deal today (April 19) in a Brooklyn federal court for trying to silence Azriel Cleary -- a witness in Kelly's racketeering case and one of the singer's ex-girlfriends and sexual assault victims -- by burning down her SUV back in June.
Working in media and reporting on the trauma of Black girls and women for so long, I knew more than most about the intricacies of R. Kelly’s deviant sexual acts and abusive behavior. Still, nothing could have prepared me to put the faces to the names and stories I had written and learn the depth […]