One Jamaican doctor is using a rather unorthodox way to educate the public about the Zika virus, which is currently spreading through the Caribbean and Latin America, BBC World News reports: through a dancehall-style song. Gynecologist Dr. Michael Abrahams produced the YouTube video “We Nuh Want Zik V” in hopes of appealing to as wide…

A coalition of black clergy, consisting of leaders of the National African American Clergy Network and 17 African-American religious leaders, are demanding that the U.S. Senate fully consider the nominee whom President Barack Obama may pick to fill the seat of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13. In a brief letter sent…

American Girl will be releasing a new historical doll this summer, the company’s third African-American doll in its BeForever historical line, CBS News reports.  Melody Ellison’s story details her as a 9-year-old growing up in Detroit during the 1960s civil rights era. She loves to sing and uses her voice to help make a difference,…

Business mogul Donald Trump pitched himself as “a unifier” during a rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Friday, saying that he will do more for African Americans than the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, the Washington Post reports.  “You know, Barack Obama, African American. If I were African American, I would be so angry at…

An 18-year-old Mount Washington, Ky., high school student is facing multiple charges after allegedly hurling racial slurs and using a pole with a Confederate flag attached to it to bash the car of a fellow student, WDRB reports. A second student is charged with harassment in the incident, which happened last Friday. Tabitha Perkins told…

The case of Ethan Couch, the Texas 18-year-old who was behind a fatal drunken driving wreck in 2013, will be moved to adult court, a Texas judge ruled Friday, meaning that he could face jail time, the New York Post reports.  Couch, who was 16 at the time of the incident, used the “affluenza” defense…

By now we’ve all heard about the Florida teen who was arrested for posing as a doctor, practicing in his own clinic without a license.  Well, an Ohio teen is now facing charges of posing as a representative of a state senator at a high school, where he was given a tour before giving students…

One Flint, Mich., resident, who prided himself on drinking a lot of water and being healthy, now has a blood-lead level that is five times what is considered toxic, the Detroit Free Press reports.  For the past six months, Aaron Stinson has suffered from excessive sweating, fatigue and severe headaches, among other inexplicable symptoms that…

A Chicago Black Lives Matter activist declined an invitation to meet with President Barack Obama on Thursday before a Black History Month reception at the White House, saying that she was not interested in “a photo opportunity and a 90-second sound bite for the president,” the Chicago Tribune reports.  Aislinn Pulley, co-founder of Black Lives Matter…

The superintendent of the Belton Independent School District in Texas, Susan Kincannon, has apologized to an 8-year-old student and his family after the boy was handcuffed during an attempt to restrain him when he had a tantrum as a reaction to medication for his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, KWTX reports.  “While we are continuing to…