A Baltimore City teacher has been placed on administrative leave, and a female student has been charged with assault, after a classroom incident involving a cellphone turned violent and the bulk of it was caught on tape. According to WBAL, the fight began at Carver Vocational High School in West Baltimore on Friday after the…

While the Ebola narrative continues to unfold, the nephew of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with the disease on U.S. soil, has penned a narrative of his own. “He was a man of color with no health insurance and no means to pay for treatment, so within hours he was released,”…

Amara Bangura arrived in Norwich, England, two weeks ago from Sierra Leone. He was excited to be in the city and looked forward to attending college there—except, he claims, he couldn’t find a place to stay because people were worried that he might have Ebola. He shows no signs of the deadly disease and says…

Vonderrit Myers Jr., the St. Louis teen shot and killed during a stop by an off-duty police officer moonlighting as a security guard, had gun residue on his shooting hand, according to police, confirming earlier police statements that the teen was armed during the incident that ended with the officer firing his weapon some 17…

Looks like making half a million dollars a year isn’t enough for some people. According to ESPN, Dallas Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle was arrested Monday night after reportedly attempting to steal cologne and underwear from Dillard’s department store. Randle was charged with a Class B theft, which is in the $50-$500 range, and…

Professor, political writer and one of Kenya’s brightest sons, Ali Mazrui died Monday at the age of 81. “Death has robbed us of one of Kenya’s greatest scholars,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told BBC News regarding the Kenyan-born scholar. Kenyatta called Mazrui a “towering” academic whose “intellectual contributions played a major role in shaping African scholarship,”…

Planned protests this weekend throughout the St. Louis area to stop police violence led to at least 17 arrests Sunday as protesters staged an unplanned sit-in outside a convenience store and refused police orders to leave. St. Louis Police Department spokeswoman Schron Jackson told Reuters that those detained were arrested for “unlawful assembly” Sunday morning in…

Last week Washington, D.C., police were called to investigate a suspected burglary. The police stopped a black man in a wealthy neighborhood who was minding his business and began questioning him. He told police that he had no idea why he was being stopped but believed that he was being singled out. Police told the…

Eric Garner’s family will still get their day in court, but it won’t be with the same lawyer. That’s because the Associated Press is reporting that attorney Sanford Rubenstein has been accused of raping a woman he met at a 60th-birthday party for the Rev. Al Sharpton last week. According to reports, the alleged incident took…

A few Sundays ago, a now-former Montgomery, Ala., pastor, Juan Demetrius McFarland, who had led his church for 23 years, walked up to the pulpit and told his congregation that he has full-blown AIDS and that he had slept with church members who never knew his health status. “He confessed to the entire membership and…