Andres De Leon is an honorably discharged Army veteran who served his country after enlisting to fight in Vietnam when he was just 18.  Yet, despite this, the now 72-year-old is living in a small, one-bedroom home in a poor neighborhood in Tijuana, Mexico, since being deported from the U.S., Fox40 reports.  “I feel they…

Since the horrific mass shooting in June at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., Confederate flags and monuments have been a hot topic for debate, given the white supremacist manifesto allegedly written by accused church shooter Dylann Roof. Nonetheless, while many are pushing for these monuments and flags to be removed, some Confederate…

Noela Rukundo of Melbourne, Australia, got the last laugh after her husband plotted to have her killed by hit men. According to the Washington Post, Rukundo waited in a car outside her home on Feb. 22 of last year, the same day as her “funeral,” watching the mourners who had come to console her husband…

The United Nations is once again tackling racism and the human rights of black people in America, detailing several concerns, from police brutality to mass incarceration to housing crises to the school-to-prison pipeline.  In a preliminary statement to the media published last week, the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent listed…

Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity at the University of Chicago are under scrutiny after leaked internal emails showed racist and other offensive remarks made against Muslims, black people and women, BuzzFeed reports.  In the emails, a Muslim student-activist was referred to as a “terrorist,” and members detailed how they planned to celebrate “Marathon Luther…

A Maryland father reportedly confessed to lying in wait for his 2-year-old daughter and the child’s mother outside their home Tuesday before shooting each of them multiple times, according to court documents, NBC Washington reports.  Daron Boswell-Johnson, 25, was charged Wednesday with the murders of 26-year-old elementary school teacher NeShante Davis and their daughter, Chloe…

Toyota’s U.S. financing unit will pony up as much as $21.9 million to black and Asian borrowers in order to settle allegations of racial bias after it was discovered that black and Asian consumers paid more than whites for their car loans, the Los Angeles Times reports.  According to the report, Toyota Motor Credit Corp.…

A former Michigan cop convicted of assaulting an unarmed motorist during a traffic stop last year was sentenced to 13 months to 10 years in prison, NBC News reports.  On Tuesday, 47-year-old William Melendez was sentenced for the brutal beating, which was caught on police dash cam, in January 2015. The victim, Floyd Dent, was…

The long-awaited National Museum of African American History and Culture will open on Sept. 24 in Washington D.C., the Smithsonian Institution announced Monday, the Associated Press reports.  Linda St. Thomas, chief spokeswoman at the Smithsonian, said that President Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, will lead the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony. …

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department accidentally released a murder suspect over the weekend because of a paperwork correction that was overlooked, the Los Angeles Times reports.  Steve Lawrence Wright, 37, the suspect in a 2011 Pasadena gang-related killing, walked free from custody at the Inmate Reception Center Saturday afternoon because of a mistake that…