A Kalamazoo, Mich., 4-year-old is being hailed as a hero after she called 911 to help save her mother, who was nine months pregnant and experiencing a seizure. “I got up and that’s all I can remember,” Centerria Manning told News Channel 3 about the scary incident that took place Wednesday. “I woke up and…

Some Cedarville, Ark., parents are upset after learning that a group of second-graders were shown a Martin Luther King Jr. parody video that used the racial slur “n—ger” some 14 times. According to KFSM 5News, Latia Hernandez was shocked to hear her daughter describe the video she had watched in her second-grade class at Cedarville…

Michael Foster, 43, is white. Clarence Daniels, 62, is black. Both men live in Florida and met rather violently Tuesday at a Wal-Mart as Daniels shopped for coffee creamer for his wife. What Daniels didn’t know was that Foster had watched him leave his car and saw him put his legally registered firearm into his…

The father of two children who allegedly bullied another child has lost his job after the bullied child’s father posted an emotional YouTube video noting how both the children and their father reportedly called him and his daughter “n—ger.” Confused? Follow me. Brad Knudson and his wife adopted an African-American girl 11 years ago. On…

After months of investigating by the FBI, early reports show that the U.S. Justice Department won’t be filing civil rights charges against former Ferguson, Mo., Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot unarmed teen Michael Brown, according to the New York Times.  The news comes a day after President Barack Obama referenced Brown in his State…

The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was one of 14 recipients Tuesday night of an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, with Gates honored for his PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. The six-part documentary explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies,…

Selma director Ava DuVernay is over the Academy Awards snub heard ’round the world. In fact, the reaction she gave to The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., following a screening of her movie, which charts Martin Luther King Jr.’s march for equal voting rights, was, “So what.” She admitted to the Sommerville, Mass., crowd…

Ventura, Calif., police are looking for three white men who reportedly poured lighter fluid on a homeless African-American man and set him ablaze.  According to ABC 7 Los Angeles, around 11 p.m. Saturday, the three men approached John Frazier, 58, who was sleeping inside a sleeping bag in Ventura’s Pierpont neighborhood. The men reportedly poured lighter…

Chauncey Carthan, a former detective with the Louisville Metro Police in Kentucky, had been drinking brandy at a friend’s house Sept. 4, 2012, before he hit the road in his unmarked police car. During his drive, he spotted a speeding Ishmael Gough, 24, and decided to pull him over. According to reports, the situation at that stop…