The 16-year-old son of New York’s newly crowned mayor-elect, Bill de Blasio, isn’t ready for a change of address just yet, the New York Daily News reports. Becoming mayor means the family moves to Gracie Mansion in the Upper East Side, which is awesome—unless you go to high school way over in Brooklyn. “I’m still…

A 19-year-old New York University student who lay trapped between a two-foot-wide shaft between a building and a garage for almost two days yelled for help as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Asher Vongtau also had thoughts of the movie 127 Hours, about a man who, while hiking in Utah, gets trapped under a boulder…

The History Channel is set to remake one of the biggest and most successful miniseries ever, Roots, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The cable network has acquired the rights to both the original miniseries as well as the book, Roots: the Saga of an American Family, from Alex Haley’s estate. Mark Wolper, son of the…

Miami Dolphins’ coaches reportedly asked the offensive line’s leader, Richie Incognito, to toughen up teammate Jonathan Martin, the Sun Sentinel reports. Incognito, who is currently suspended from the Dolphins for bullying Martin, may have taken those instructions too far. According to the Sun Sentinel, Incognito was given his missive after Martin had missed a voluntary…

Looks like Jay Z may be in hot water again. The Major League Baseball Players Association is reportedly investigating the rapper-turned-sports-agent for giving his all-star client Robinson Cano a $33,900 limited edition Shawn Carter Classic Fusion watch by Hublot, ESPN.com reports. According to the sports website, Cano received the exclusive watch, designed by Jay Z, as…

As if rocking the confederate flag wasn’t enough, Kanye West was photographed coming out of Barneys, which has been steeped in controversy after several claims of targeting black shoppers as criminals, aka “shopping while black.” According to Us magazine, which posted the photo of the egomaniacal rapper on their website, West apparently lambasted Barneys at…

A 23-year-old man was convicted of armed burglary and second-degree murder in the 2007 shooting death of the Washington Redskins’ Sean Taylor, ESPN.com reports. Eric Rivera Jr., who could face life in prison, confessed to shooting Taylor shortly after he was arrested, but once on the stand he changed his story, claiming that his confession…

After enduring taunts and insults about her name, a 19-year-old biracial teen decided she’d had enough. Keisha Austin will now be forever known as Kylie Austin, the Kansas City Star reports. Gone is the birth name given to her by her white mother because she believed it represented a strong, feminine, beautiful black woman. “I…

Hybrid vehicles, even with their amazing gas-to-mileage ratio, don’t resonate with people of color. So Toyota announced plans to donate 22 Prius hybrid vehicles to select HBCUs across the Southwestern Atlantic, NewsOne reports. School administrators will be granted one-year leases on the 50-mile-per-gallon vehicles as a part of the Toyota Green Initiative (TGI) program that…