President Barack Obama will be visiting Cuba March 21 and 22, according to a Medium post by Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. It’s a historic visit, since Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country in more than 80 years. The previous, and first, sitting president to visit the Caribbean…

An extremely displeased Wendy’s customer is now facing charges after she allegedly attacked and bit an employee over a wrong order, WTVR reports.  Wendy’s manager Latanya Nelson was cornered by Lovely Robinson, 25, at a Richmond, Va., Wendy’s Monday night when the incident occurred, authorities say. Robinson reportedly stormed into the fast-food restaurant after changing…

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…

One Alabama cop is getting recognition since his good deed at a grocery store went viral, AL.com reports.  Hueytown Police Cpl. Sebastian Goldman was at a Food Giant grocery store purchasing food for the jail inmates, the news station reports. One store employee, a 19-year-old man, was helping the officer load the groceries into his…

One North Carolina couple is celebrating their daughter’s homecoming five months after the child was born 14 weeks early, making her one of the smallest babies to survive, CBS News reports.  Little E’layah was born back in Sept. 23, 2015, weighing a mere 10 ounces and measuring all of 10 inches long from head to…

An Indiana middle school girls’ basketball coach has been suspended after telling members of the team not to “act black,” while also referring to players on another team as “ghetto,” the Elkhart Truth reports.  According to the report, Vicki Rogers, a teacher and coach at Elkhart’s North Side Middle School, was suspended Jan. 22 for…

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…

The Memphis, Tenn., Police Department has launched an investigation after a local news team captured a controversial arrest on camera, Local 24 reports. In the video of the arrest, caught by Local 24, the suspect, who was said to be involved in a domestic dispute, can be seen running from police. Eventually the suspect drops…

A group of Texas A&M students are accused of taunting a group of black high schoolers, using racial slurs and other hateful language, KBTX reports.  The slurs were directed at about 60 juniors from Dallas’ Uplift Hampton Preparatory, who were visiting the campus. According to CBS DFW, the confrontation began over a sports rivalry after…

A Fairborn, Ohio, police officer is being put on paid administrative leave after allegedly making a Facebook comment that celebrated the death of Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn McCarrel II, WHIO reports. The comment, which read “Love a happy ending,” was made on the Ohio Politics Facebook page some two days after McCarrel killed himself…