“I just stabbed someone. Come and get me. I want to die,” is allegedly what the 12-year-old told a 911 operator in a “calm” voice, according to Glenn Stacey, the man who lent the boy his phone to make the call, the Detroit Free Press reports.                    Jamarion Lawhorn—whom The Root is naming because he is…

As New York City continues to grapple with Staten Island dad Eric Garner’s death, which led an incensed city to demand justice, Mayor Bill de Blasio held a roundtable discussion with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to talk through the next step to be taken toward healing the community, the New…

A 26-year-old Florida man was found guilty on Thursday of tossing an infant out the window of a moving car, the New York Post reports. Little Emanuel Wesley Murray died instantly. According to the report, Richard McTear attacked his ex-girlfriend Jasmine Bedwell in 2009 when she came home with her son. McTear grabbed the infant…

Samuel Walker Sr. barely had time to mourn the loss of his 13-year-old son, Samuel Walker Jr., before his own life was snatched from him. According to the Chicago Tribune, the elder Walker was shot on the 4100 block of West Crystal Street in Chicago a mere two days before “Lil Sam,” as his son…

A patient infected with Ebola is expected to be flown into the United States to be treated in Atlanta at Emory University Hospital, Reuters reports. The patient, a U.S. aid worker who contracted the disease while working in West Africa, will be moved to a high-security ward and kept in a special isolation unit that…

The lethal Ebola virus ravaging West Africa has forced the hand of Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, who issued a public health emergency declaration late Wednesday in an attempt to help stop the virus’ spread, the Associated Press reports. According to the news wire, Koroma promised that house-to-house searches would be conducted in order…

The controversial trial of Theodore Wafer, the Dearborn Heights, Mich., man charged with manslaughter and second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Renisha McBride, continued in Michigan Wednesday, with the defense taking the forefront on Day 5 of the trial as the prosecution rested its case, the Detroit Free Press reports. Calling…

Local black leaders in Fresno, Calif., aren’t happy that a white man is going to be teaching African-American studies, Latino studies and Southeast Asian studies to students at the soon-to-open Rutherford B. Gaston Middle School, the Fresno Bee reports. The middle school, named in honor of Fresno’s first black principal, is scheduled to open in…

The murder trial of Theodore Wafer—the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights, Mich., resident who shot and killed 19-year-old Renisha McBride last year—continued Tuesday, with the courtroom hearing details of how the investigation was handled, the Detroit Free Press reports.  In the session, marking the fourth day of the trial, where McBride went after she crashed her car…