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…

Members from the terrorist group Boko Haram firebombed huts and burned children to death in a vicious attack that left 86 people dead, the Associated Press reports.  A survivor hidden in a tree saw the brutality unleashed and heard the screams of children in the latest attack by the Islamic extremists. According to the report,…

The family of Ramarley Graham, a black teen who was gunned down in his Bronx, N.Y., home by a police officer, is demanding justice in the teen’s case, telling the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara that the “foot-dragging is unacceptable,” the New York Daily News reports.  Tuesday will mark…

A DeKalb County, Ga., grand jury has decided to indict a white police officer who fatally shot a U.S. Air Force veteran who was experiencing a mental-health crisis last year, the Washington Post reports.  Officer Robert Olsen was indicted on six counts, including two counts of felony murder, two counts of violation of oath, one…

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw acknowledged on Tuesday that officers are responsible for escalations that may occur during a stop or arrest, the Texas Tribune reports.  According to the report, when asked if Sandra Bland was in any way to blame for the heated exchange that was caught on a dashboard camera,…

A Texas middle school student who was suffering an asthma attack and accepted an inhaler from a classmate faces one month in an alternative school, Fox 4 News reports.  Alexis Kyle, 13, who used her classmate’s inhaler, is facing the same penalty as Indiyah Rush, 12, who offered Alexis her inhaler Tuesday in gym class…