FIFA has started a probe into the matter of two men wearing blackface during Saturday’s World Cup Group G game between Germany and Ghana at the stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil, the Daily Mail reports. According to the report, images spread across social media showing the two men, who were wearing identical outfits, with curly Afros…

Someone thought this was a fun idea.         It’s time for the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Washington, D.C., and all the big conservatives, including presidential aspirants, are in the city intermingling with thousands of grassroots activists. One of the features in a particular bathroom at the event is an Obama urinal…

As it turns out, a “bully” who cruelly and recurrently locked a special needs 8-year-old boy in a school locker was a teacher, and although paraprofessional Jeremy Turner has been fired, the boy’s mother is seeking $1 million from the New York City Department of Education for the horrible incidents, the New York Post reports.…

A Texas mom is facing charges of intoxication assault after authorities say she allowed six children—ranging from ages 8 to 14—to ride on the hood and truck of her Chevrolet Malibu because their clothes were wet after a trip to the community pool, NBC 5 reports. Four of those children were rushed to the hospital,…

Here’s something you don’t see every day. On Tuesday the Dallas County Commissioners Court voted in favor of giving African Americans reparations for slavery—but didn’t quite mean to do so, the Dallas Morning News reports. According to the news site, the resolution, written by the only black commissioner in the county, John Wiley Price, was…

Approximately 337 people have succumbed to the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, the World Health Organization reports, according to the BBC. With about 14 deaths and 47 new outbreaks ripping through the area over the past week, the organization has listed Guinea as the worst affected area, with 264 related deaths, followed by Sierra Leone…

Blue Ivy isn’t the only one facing backlash for her natural Afro. Tiffany Bryan, a former security guard at the Barclays Center indoor arena in Brooklyn, N.Y., is claiming that her employers, AEG Worldwide, constantly harassed her and ultimately fired her because she did not “tame” her natural locks, the New York Post reports. The 27-year-old…

The California teen who stowed away on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from San Jose to Maui is returning to his regular everyday routine but took some time to open up about his experience, KPIX 5 reports. “I took that plane because it was the closest one I could find that was going to go west,”…

British actress Thandie Newton isn’t impressed with the lack of representation of products geared for dark skin in beauty stores, and is calling the industry out on it. According to the Daily Mail, the 41-year-old British and American film star accused chains, such as Boots, of only stocking dark shades of makeup when a line…