Remember Shanesha Taylor, the Arizona mother who was arrested and had her children taken away from her because she left them in the car earlier this year while she tried to interview for a job? Well, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery has confirmed that an agreement has been reached with Taylor’s lawyer: The two counts…

Another transgender woman has been found dead in Baltimore. This time the victim has been identified as the sister of NBA player Reggie Bullock, Reuters reports. Mia Henderson, 26, was discovered Wednesday in an alley, having suffered “severe trauma,” a police representative told the news site. Her brother was a first-round draft pick for the…

In a five-week major cable-news survey, Fair, a progressive national media watch group, uncovered some startling and unprecedented results. For five interspersed weeks—the first two weeks of February, first week of March and first two weeks of April—the watch group monitored guests appearing on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and OutFront With Erin Burnett, MSNBC’s All…

One Chicago man is facing some serious charges after allegedly spitting on a Cook County judge and then slapping her with his open hand, the Chicago Tribune reports. Judge Arnette Hubbard, who is African American and was the first female president of black legal groups the National Bar Association and the Cook County Bar Association,…

One Oklahoma mother is furious after her 1-year-old daughter allegedly contracted a case of herpes from a caretaker at ChildTime day care in Oklahoma City, KFOR reports. When the toddler’s mouth started bleeding from painful blisters that had developed around her mouth, Consuela Smith immediately took her child to see a doctor—which is when she…

PBS is making its mark at the Emmy Awards, with 43 nominations for 13 programs, the Los Angeles Times reports. Editor-in-Chief of The Root Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.’s documentary series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross was nominated, as were documentaries such as The Central Park Five and Defiant Requiem: Voices of Resistance and the…

It was a shock. Ronald White, 20, who has kidney dysplasia and has been on dialysis for years, had finally found a match and a willing kidney donor. His fellow church member from Faith Clinic Church of God in Christ in Detroit, 23-year-old Diamond Scott, had randomly messaged him, offering her kidney, the Detroit Free…

Hooligan Squad. That’s the working title of the first project that Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder will tackle under his new first-look development deal with Adult Swim, the Los Angeles Times reports. The live action-adventure pilot is set in the near future and deals with an American uprising in San Francisco, which has been occupied by the…

The Leesburg Police Department in Virginia announced Monday that it will be looking to press charges against an alleged shoplifter involved in a controversial Target case that may have led to a security guard being fired after he reported the incident, the Washington Post reports.  According to the report, the police had been waiting on…

Alice Coachman, the Olympic legend who shattered ceilings and the status quo when she became the first black woman to win a gold medal at the games, earning the medal for her 5-foot-6-1/8-inch high jump, has died in her hometown of Albany, Ga., at the age of 90, the New York Times reports. Coachman had…