A Chicago mom is furious after her daughter, an elementary school student, was reportedly handcuffed while at school. Marlena Wordlaw’s 6-year-old daughter, Madisyn Moore, was reportedly pulled out of class at Fernwood Elementary School for taking candy off a teacher’s desk. That was when her daughter was handcuffed and put under some stairs at the…

Jahi McMath, an Oakland, Calif., teen who was declared brain-dead in December 2013, is as “healthy and beautiful as ever,” according to a post by her mother, Nailah Winkfield, in a Facebook group updated with a new photo of Jahi. Her parents shared the photo of the now 15-year-old on Friday, the first update in…

The Minneapolis NAACP is calling for action after a lynching photo was found in a Joe’s Crab Shack table with a tasteless caption, WCCO reports.  According to the organization’s leaders, two black diners, Tyrone Williams and Chauntyll Allen, sat down for a meal at the Roseville, Minn., diner when they noticed the disturbing image inside…

William Porter, one of the Baltimore police officers charged in the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray, will have to testify against his fellow officers involved in the case, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday, USA Today reports.  Gray’s death triggered tensions in the city that ultimately erupted into rioting in Baltimore and protests across…

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry has confirmed that she will not be appearing on the self-titled show she hosts this Saturday after several weeks of pre-emptions and what she says is a loss of editorial control, the New York Times reports.  The Times reports that it obtained an email that was sent out this week to…

Two Chicago 911 dispatchers have been suspended without pay for not sending authorities to the residence where Quintonio LeGrier was requesting assistance, the Chicago Tribune reports. The 19-year-old called 911 from his father’s apartment three times the morning of Dec. 26 requesting assistance and was hung up on twice. However, when authorities were finally dispatched, one…

Wellesley College named Dr. Paula A. Johnson, a Harvard Medical School professor, as president, making her the first African American to ever head the school, the Boston Globe reports. Johnson in July will officially replace H. Kim Bottomly, who announced in April that she would be stepping down after nine years of service.  Johnson, who…

A handful of students at Durham, N.C.’s School for Creative Studies had planned to kick off Black History Month with a bang by wearing colorful head wraps reminiscent of those worn by many women across the African continent.  However, parents and students are now planning a protest after an administrator told the students that they…

The United Nations is once again tackling racism and the human rights of black people in America, detailing several concerns, from police brutality to mass incarceration to housing crises to the school-to-prison pipeline.  In a preliminary statement to the media published last week, the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent listed…