The battle over the Washington, D.C., football team’s name has been decided in one fell swoop, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceling the federal trademark protection that the offensive name has enjoyed, calling it “disparaging to Native Americans,” the Washington Post reports. The particular groundbreaking case was filed on behalf of five Native…

Father’s Day in the Lewis-Anthony household will probably not be a grand event this year. There’s nothing special planned—their three kids are young enough to be let off the hook for not presenting any special surprise for their dads. But for now this doesn’t bother Kordale Lewis and Kaleb Anthony, who are raising their two…

When Jabre White’s teacher told the class to go downstairs to take their economics final, Jabre says he politely responded with a “Yes, sir.” That was when the Roosevelt High School senior from Des Moines, Iowa, was met with, “You meant to say, ‘Yes, sir, master,’ ” from the teacher, Shawn McCurtain, the Des Moines…

A Michigan middle school teacher’s suspension for teaching his eighth-grade class about blackface has ended after almost two weeks. Alan Barron returned to his job at Monroe Middle School on Monday, CBS Detroit reports. Barron, 59, was showing his class a video about how white entertainers used to put on blackface to imitate black people.…

Whitney Houston’s story—more specifically, her troubled relationship with singer-songwriter Bobby Brown—is due to be chronicled in a Lifetime movie scheduled for release in 2015. Award-winning actress Angela Bassett will make her directing debut with Whitney Houston, telling the story of the couple from “the time they first met at the very height of their celebrity,…

Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Retired police Sgt. Ron Stallworth’s story—about how he, a black undercover Colorado cop, infiltrated one of the nation’s most notorious hate groups in 1978—is one such truth. Stallworth, 61, recently released the book Black Klansman, detailing his amazing story during his early years of service. “I was sitting…

The Boko Haram terrorist cell released a video on Monday claiming to show the kidnapped schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state, Nigeria. In the video, some hundred girls were shown wearing full-length hijab and praying. In the video, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said that the girls had been “liberated” and are Muslim now. He…

It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and many of us may feel the keen absence of the women who meant the most to us. How many times have you wished you could turn back the hands of time and have one more conversation with one of the most influential women of your life? Maybe have notes of…

When the video broke it shook the Internet. It was an unbelievably horrifying depiction of overt racism with a white man insisting that a black woman move to the back of the bus where she belonged, much to the horror of everyone else on the Brooklyn, N.Y., bus. In cellphone footage posted online, the white…