On Wednesday, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama officially welcomed Pope Francis during an arrival ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House. According to the White House, the crowd joining the president in welcoming the iconic religious figure totaled some 11,000 ticketed guests, not counting staff, military, press or other members…

Former neurosurgeon and current Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson stood firm on his position that a Muslim should not be president of the United States in an interview with The Hill on Sunday, despite backlash.  Earlier Sunday, during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Carson had created a media firestorm after saying that he…

Families with an incarcerated family member struggle with basic needs such as food and housing, according to a survey by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together and other community organizations that work with imprisoned individuals, the New York Times reports.  According to the report, almost two-thirds of such families struggle to meet…

It’s been some 17 months since Gugsa Abraham Dabela was found dead by a Redding, Conn., roadside. By all accounts, just hours before his body was found, Dabela was hanging out with friends, having a good time and handing out business cards for his new law practice. His family has been reeling in the aftermath; questions…

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a Republican 2016 presidential hopeful, had a lot to say about the Black Lives Matter movement while he was in Ferguson, Mo., where the movement was born out of the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, CBS St. Louis and the Associated Press reports. Carson chastised the activist movement in an…

Whether you’re starting a new job or remaining at your old job (but think it’s time for that dollar figure to change), salary negotiation can incite a particular kind of dread that wells up in your stomach and will have you running to call your mom as if you weren’t an adult.  Salary negotiation, however,…

On Wednesday, former tennis superstar James Blake made news when he was tackled by an undercover New York City police officer and taken to the ground, suffering cuts in the incident, which stemmed from mistaken identity in a credit card fraud case. Turns out that the officer, identified as James Frascatore, has been sued four…

It’s been a whirlwind week of news coming out of Baltimore surrounding the Freddie Gray case. In the latest development, embattled Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who has been dealing with the fallout since Gray’s in-custody death and subsequent protests and riots in April, has announced that she has no further plans to seek re-election, the Baltimore…

The trials for the six police officers charged in the ultimately fatal arrest of Freddie Gray will remain in Baltimore, a judge ruled on Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams brushed off arguments from the officers’ attorneys claiming that it would be hard to choose unbiased jurors in the city…

The former North Charleston, S.C., police officer who shot and killed Walter Scott in April said that he felt threatened by the 50-year-old father, who was seen in video footage attempting to flee, NBC News reports. “Just that three seconds of the video came out. And everybody thought I was racist, and I just got…