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Watch: Little Girl’s Awesome Comeback After Boy Calls Her Ugly
This little girl for president of everything! A YouTube video published Thursday has been making the rounds as it shows the precocious 4-year-old recounting to an adult offscreen what she told a little boy at school who told her she looked ugly. “What did you say?” the woman prompted. “I said, ‘I didn’t come here…
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Selma Autoworkers March to Montgomery for Better Work Conditions
It’s been 50 years since the original Selma-to-Montgomery marches in Alabama, but on Thursday a group of Selma autoworkers, local community leaders and representatives from national civil rights organizations re-created the iconic trek to Montgomery, this time marching to the Hyundai corporate offices there to demand better conditions in the company’s supply chain. The workers,…
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British 15-Year-Old Arrested by Armed Officers for Afro Pick Mistaken as Gun
Rochae Davis had a black Afro pick tucked into her waistband. That’s reportedly what surveillance footage picked up as she was walking around Croydon in South London, and that is what the armed police who apprehended her supposedly identified as being a gun, the Croydon Advertiser reports. The 15-year-old girl spent nine hours in police…
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Ohio Teen Flies 7,000 Miles, Gets Rejected by Woman and Almost Freezes to Death on Chinese Riverbank
One love-struck Ohio teen almost died on a Chinese riverbank after getting drunk once he was rejected by the young woman he flew 7,000 miles to see, the Daily Mail reports. Identified by only his surname, Pratt, the 18-year-old flew from Ohio to Jiangshan, a city in Zhejiang province, China, after reportedly falling in love…
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Michael Brown’s Family to Sue Darren Wilson
A day after the Justice Department confirmed that federal charges would not be filed against former Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, Brown’s family lawyer has announced plans for the family to file a lawsuit of its own, Vox reports. According to the site, family attorney…
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Lesson: When Making a Fake ID, Use One From a Person Who’s the Same Race
The real Matthew Mark Warner is a thin white man. Whether or not 47-year-old Willie Troy—a black man on the heavier side—knew this is anyone’s guess, but Troy got busted big time in the New York City borough of Queens when he was apprehended by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers…
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Chicago Family Sues Police Department for Fatal Shooting of Roshad McIntosh
A Chicago mother is still looking for answers seven months after her 19-year-old son was shot dead by police officers on the city’s West Side, and she has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit claiming that her son was killed without justification, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the news site, Roshad McIntosh’s mother, Cynthia…
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Last Ebola Patient in Liberia Released
The last Ebola patient in Liberia has been released, and the country is beginning its 42-day countdown to being declared completely free of the deadly virus that has rampaged through Liberia since December 2013, Al-Jazeera reports. “I am one of the happiest human beings today on earth because it was not easy going through this…
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Family of Brain-Dead Calif. Teen Suing Hospital for Malpractice
It’s been over a year since Jahi McMath, then 13, was declared brain-dead after complications from surgery for sleep apnea. And now, with a day to go before the statute of limitations runs out, the family is planning to sue Benioff Children’s Hospital for malpractice, ABC News reports. Jahi’s story drew nationwide attention after her…
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Gunman Wanted in 5 Random Shootings in the Houston Area
Police are searching for a gunman who they believe is responsible for five random shootings in the Houston area, WND reports. “Based on the information we do have, it’s very likely these five cases are related,” Houston Police Sgt. Tommy Ruland said at a news conference, according to the site. According to reports, all five…

