In a rare post-baby outing Wednesday night in Los Angeles, rapper Kanye West watched the Los Angeles Dodgers play the New York Mets, Yahoo reports. But he didn’t get the warm welcome he’s used to receiving during performances. When West was shown on the jumbotron at Dodgers Stadium, the “Black Skinhead” rapper was booed by…

The author of a new study says that lenders are likely to perceive African-American women as positively as white men in approving loan applications and would lend them as much money, the Huffington Post reports. According to the study’s lead author, University of Iowa sociologist Sarah Harkness, lenders perceive African-American women just as favorably as white…

The Raw Story is reporting that a 92-year-old African-American woman has filed a suit against North Carolina after Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed a restrictive voter-ID measure. The suit says that Rosanell Eaton will be disenfranchised after voting for 70 years because “the name on her certified birth certificate does not match the name on…

A clown who wore an Obama mask at the Missouri State Fair this weekend as an announcer called for him “to get gored” has been banned after a public uproar, CBS News reports. The announcer has resigned. The fair banned the clown from any future events, saying in a written statement that he had engaged…

Update: Thursday, Aug. 15, 10:01 a.m. EDT: The hip-hop mogul issued an apology at his Global Grind site, saying, “When my buddies from the NAACP called and asked me to take down the Harriet Tubman video from the All Def Digital YouTube channel and apologize, I agreed.” Earlier: All Def Digital, the brainchild of Russell…

(The Root) — The goals of organizations heading to Washington, D.C., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom bear a close resemblance to the goals set by the leaders who helped coordinate the event the first time around. In 1963 the leaders who helped organize the March on…

On Wednesday a federal judge sentenced former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to 30 months in prison for misusing $750,000 in campaign funds, the Chicago Tribune reports. His wife, Sandi, received a sentence of one year after pleading guilty to falsifying tax returns. The Jacksons will be allowed to serve their sentences one at a time,…

Cory A. Booker, the charismatic and popular mayor of Newark, N.J., won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday with 60 percent of the vote, besting his closest challenger, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., the New York Times reports. Booker is favored to win the general election in October in the heavily Democratic state, which…

A crowd attending a rodeo show at the Missouri State Fair this weekend whooped and hollered as the announcer called for a clown wearing an Obama mask “to get gored,” according to the Raw Story. “I felt like I was at a Klan rally,” Missouri State Fair goer Perry Beam told Raw Story, his outrage…

The Washington Post is reporting that former Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty and Laurene Powell Jobs are dating after meeting two years ago at a Houston education conference. The two reportedly connected over a shared interest in school reform, the report says. Last year, the former D.C. mayor scored a plum job with Andreessen Horowitz, one…