Morgan Freeman must have done a brilliant job as Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film Invictus—maybe a little too brilliant. That’s because the makers of a billboard in India actually believed the actor to be the former South African president and mistakenly used a photo of Freeman, the New York Daily News reports. Below Freeman’s…

The family of a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain-dead after having surgery to remove her tonsils is asking that doctors not take her off life support until after the holidays, CBS News reports. The family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, said Thursday that Jahi McMath’s family will meet with officials at Oakland Children’s Hospital to make…

The 45-year-old man who shot and killed Renisha McBride, an unarmed teen who was seeking help after a car accident, will stand trial on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges, a Michigan judge decided on Thursday, MSNBC reports. Judge David Turfe said Thursday that based on the evidence, Theodore Wafer made a poor decision in shooting McBride.…

President Obama announced on Thursday that he will be commuting the sentences of eight crack-cocaine offenders who were given extremely lengthy prison terms basically for being black and possessing a drug whose users are incorrectly perceived to be majority black. We can stammer around the issue, but ever since crack cocaine entered urban cities during…

President Obama is expected to commute the sentences of eight federal inmates who were convicted of crack-cocaine offenses, expanding the president’s push to curb severe penalties for drug offenses, the New York Times reports. The prisoners, all of whom have been locked away for at least 15 years, are expected to be released in the…

An African-American Sacramento State University student has the school in an uproar after she simulated two white men being lynched from a tree on campus for an art project focusing on civil rights. The two men, who had actual nooses hung around their necks, are fine. They are hired actors who were suspended from the…

Kind souls across the country delivered a Christmas blessing to a blind man and his guide dog. Cecil Williams, 61, was on his way to a dentist appointment when he began to feel faint. He collapsed onto the subway tracks, bringing his guide dog, Orlando, down with him. Orlando began barking and licking Williams’ face…

The Texas judge whose lenient sentencing of the drunk-driving teen who killed four people yet was given probation is being pressured to sentence him to prison, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Sixteen-year-old Ethan Couch was given 10 years probation by the judge, who believes that rehabilitation is actually better for the teen than prison, after…

A Bronx, N.Y., native and current Stone Mountain, Ga., resident is flush after confirming that she is one of the two winners of the $648 million Mega Millions jackpot. Ira Curry, 56, came forward to reveal that she was a winner and is expected to take in a cool $120 million after taxes, Georgia Lottery…

There are two types of running backs: those who get the ball and dance around in the backfield waiting for a bit of daylight so they can slide through unscathed, and those who take the ball and go busting into the defense, making a path by brute force. Jim Brown was the second kind of…