On Tuesday night, Los Angeles Clippers player Matt Barnes took his fight to find his aunt’s killer to social media. Barnes posted a photo of his aunt’s husband to his Instagram account with this caption: “This dude stabbed my auntie in the neck last week & left her for dead on the sidewalk, she ended…

While the Obamas aren’t officially set to leave their current accommodations until after the 2016 election, that doesn’t mean they have to wait that long to start house shopping. According to unidentified real estate sources that spoke to the Los Angeles Times, the president and first lady are reportedly in escrow on a $4.25 million…

Donald Sterling is toxic, or at least that is the sentiment from current Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers and interim CEO of the organization Richard Parsons, who testified Tuesday that Rivers would quit if Sterling were still the owner of the team. “Doc is troubled by this, maybe more so than anybody else,” Parsons…

Emmanuel Mudiay, one of the top high school basketball recruits, will forgo playing for Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown at Southern Methodist University and will play in China instead. He has signed a one-year contract worth $1.2 million with Guangdong of the China Basketball Association, Yahoo Sports reports. According to the news site, Mudiay,…

Orange is the old prison color. At least it is now at one Michigan prison that changed the prisoner garb from orange to black-and-white stripes after the success of the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. “I see a lot of people wearing all orange, and they think it’s cool. And some people even…

Some months ago, President Barack Obama announced that his sights were set firmly on helping black and Latino young men with a special initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. On Monday the president announced during a town hall at the Walker-Jones Education Campus in Washington, D.C., that new private partnerships have donated some $104 million to…

Very soon, the imaginary line between the rich and the poor could be separated by an actual door. New York City officials have approved a “back door” proposal that will allow a high-rise condo building to create separate entrances for those living in the affordable-housing section of the building, the New York Post reports. And…

Four New York City emergency workers who responded to a 911 call after police apparently choked a man—who later died while in police custody—have been put on “modified” duty, the Associated Press reports. According to the Fire Department of New York, two EMTs and two paramedics have been barred from responding to 911 calls after…

They were 13 brightly colored statues of boys and girls wearing aviator goggles, who stood proudly on Chicago’s lakefront. They were called “The Watch” and were Chicago artist Hebru Brantley’s tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen, the brazen men of color who flew and fought in World War II. On Sunday, vandals destroyed them. According to…

Eric Garner was standing on a sidewalk Thursday when police, who accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes, approached him. Garner, 43, told police that he hadn’t sold anything and to leave him alone. After a brief standoff, five police officers attempted to take the 400-pound Staten Island, N.Y., father of six down to the ground.…