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  • DeRay Mckesson Named Interim Head of Human Capital for Baltimore City Public Schools

    Black Lives Matter activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson will be starting a new job leading the city’s office of human capital for Baltimore City Public Schools, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, incoming schools CEO Sonja Santelises on Tuesday named Mckesson interim chief human capital officer, the second and most…

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  • New York Times Book Review Publishes New Short Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    A new short story by your fave, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is slated to run on the cover of the New York Times Book Review’s July 4 weekend issue, according to a press release. Adichie, an award-winning writer—known for her works Americanah, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, to name a select few—was commissioned to write the…

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  • Prosecutor Asks That SC Be Allowed to Hold Dylann Roof Trial 1st

    A South Carolina state attorney is asking that the state be allowed to prosecute accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooter Dylann Roof before the federal government does, the Associated Press reports. Claiming that the state has primary jurisdiction over the case, 9th Judicial Circuit solicitor Scarlett Wilson, who will be prosecuting Roof for the state, said Tuesday that…

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  • Wis. Woman Accused of Killing Pregnant Mother Added to FBI’s Most Wanted List

    The FBI has updated its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, adding to it the name of a Wisconsin woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child, Fox6 Now reports. A reward of up to $100,000 is being offered for information that leads to the capture of Shanika Minor, who allegedly shot 23-year-old…

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  • Report: Okla. Inmate Died After Being Strangled by Jailers

    A Caddo County, Okla., jail inmate died after being strangled when jailers put him in a neck hold, The Frontier reports. Darius Randell Robinson, 41, died April 5, just a few days after being arrested on warrants for unpaid child support, the site notes. Jailers initially said that Robinson had tried to escape his cell…

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  • Game Designer Surprises Wife With Black Game Developer Barbie

    What do you do if you want to get Mattel’s Game Developer Barbie for your wife, but the doll is available only as a white doll with red hair? For Marcus Montgomery, the answer was quite simple. As a pro problem-solver, being a game designer himself, he bought a black Barbie and dressed it up…

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  • Baltimore Rapper Lor Scoota Shot and Killed After Rallying to Stop City Violence

    Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as rapper Lor Scoota, was working hard to try to stop violence in his hometown of Baltimore. Tragically, just a short while after leaving a charity basketball game he had hosted to promote such peace, Lor Scoota was shot and killed, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, police…

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  • Co-Defendant of Aaron Hernandez Takes Plea Deal in 2013 Death of Odin Lloyd

    A co-defendant of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez took a plea deal for his part in the 2013 death of Odin Lloyd and was sentenced Monday, CNN reports. Carlos Ortiz, 30, changed his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact for helping Hernandez after the fatal 2013 shooting. In…

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  • Gay Man Blames Brutal 2013 Beating by Hasidic Safety Patrol on Group's 'Special Connections' to the NYPD

    A gay black man who was brutally beaten by a Hasidic patrol group in 2013 is now pointing a finger at the close relationship between the New York City Police Department, city officials and the Jewish safety patrols, the New York Daily News reports. Taj Patterson lost sight in one eye after he was beaten…

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  • 2 Mo. Men Arrested After Throwing Eggs, Shouting Racial Slurs

    Police are calling the actions of two Missouri men who allegedly threw eggs and hurled racial slurs at African Americans in south St. Louis a “hate crime,” KSDK reports. Jesse Reed, 30, and David Ragain, also 30, were arrested late Friday and charged with assault motivated by discrimination in the third degree, the station notes. “A white…

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