Westland, Mich., police have arrested three suspects for the assault of white Army veteran Adam Wagner, WJBK Fox 2 reports. On April 3, Wagner was outside a 7-Eleven when the group of men noticed his military ID and started making offensive comments about him and the military. “They were saying, ‘How can you be in…

Jay Z frequents basketball games, accompanied by wife, Beyoncé, but last week the award-winning rapper drew extra attention when he wore a chain blinged out with a medallion associated with the Five Percent Nation, the New York Post reports.  While at a Brooklyn Nets game at the Barclays Center in his hometown, the rapper was…

In early March, Honey Maid launched an adorable commercial celebrating “wholesome” families of every kind that included a two-dad family, a rocker family, a single-dad family, a military family and an interracial family—homage to the types of families that are usually unnoticed (or at least underappreciated) in the mainstream media. “No matter how things change,…

An 11-year-old Philadelphia girl was pronounced dead after an accident in which her 2-year-old brother shot her in the arm on Sunday, NBC 10 reports. Jamara Stevens and her three siblings—a 14-year-old boy, 7-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy—had found the loaded .357-caliber handgun in their West Philadelphia home and were playing with the weapon when…

Although many African Americans identify long-standing problems that still plague the community—such as unemployment and access to high-quality education—the black population remains largely optimistic about the future and satisfied with the direction the country is going in, according to a new survey by Ebony magazine and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Almost 90 percent also said…

Updated Thursday, April 3, 8:45 p.m. EDT:  The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office released a statement late Thursday regarding the arrest of Donrell Breaux. According to the statement, the officer was responding to a call from a neighbor who claimed that a black male was cursing at him, his wife and his children, even when asked to…

It is commonly accepted that unemployment is a huge obstacle for African Americans in their walk toward economic progress. However, underemployment is an even bigger problem for them, especially in comparison with their white and Hispanic counterparts, the Associated Press reports. According to the National Urban League’s latest annual State of Black America report, “One…

Omari Grant was just fooling around in the wooded area behind his Henry County, Ga., home like a normal 11-year-old boy, conspiring to build a tree fort with his friends. However, things took a frightening turn when a neighbor called the police to complain about the boys cutting the trees, WSB-TV reports. One officer arriving…

After an outcry from Catholics, citing the modest lifestyle of Pope Francis as an example, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta Wilton Gregory says that he will most likely sell a recently built $2.2 million mansion that was meant to be for his personal use, the Associated Press reports. However, he hasn’t made up his…

The defendant may not be the only one on trial in the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride in Detroit on the night of Nov. 2. According to the Associated Press, lawyers defending Theodore Wafer are planning to use McBride’s lifestyle against her in the trial, which is set to start in June. They are also…