Update: Friday, Dec. 14, 2:38 p.m. EST: The Washington Post reports that Rob Parker has been suspended until further notice, according to ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys. “We are conducting a full review.” Earlier: ESPN personality Rob Parker questioned the blackness of Washington Redskins player Robert Griffin III during an on-air conversation on Thursday, Vibe reports.…

A Florida grand jury has indicted Michael David Dunn on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Jordan Davis, an unarmed, black high school student, which occurred last month after an argument over loud rap music, Reuters reports. Software developer Michael Dunn, 46, shot high school junior Jordan Davis, 17, through the window of…

The Kansas City Police Department released a video on Friday of officers speaking with Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher several hours before he fatally shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins on the morning of Dec. 1, the Huffington Post reports. Police spokesman Darin Snapp had previously discussed the late-night encounter, saying that Belcher had been found…

South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela was taken to a military hospital for tests on Saturday, though the nation’s president assured the public that there was “no cause for alarm” over the 94-year-old’s health, the Associated Press reports. The statement issued by President Jacob Zuma’s spokesman said that Mandela was doing well and was receiving…

The Associated Press reports that President Barack Obama on Friday asked Congress for $60.4 billion in federal assistance for New York, New Jersey and other states hit by superstorm Sandy in late October. It’s a disaster whose cost is rivaled only by the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2005 Hurricane that devastated New…

The Los Angeles Times reports that on the night rapper Notorious B.I.G. was shot down in one of the city’s most infamous unsolved homicides, he had no drugs or alcohol in his system, and that it was a single bullet that caused his death, though he was shot four times. A coroner’s medical examiner ran toxicology…

Despite his well-documented struggles to make ends meet on a food-stamp diet, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker reportedly sprung into action on Thursday to help out at the scene of an accident, the Daily News reports. His hunger and caffeine withdrawal haven’t dulled his superhero reflexes. Already famous for carrying a neighbor out of a…

Louis Farrakhan sought medical care during visit to the Virgin Islands: According to Farrakhan representative Akbar Muhammed, the Nation of Islam leader went to a hospital on Tuesday with a “low-grade fever,” the Associated Press reports. Nigerian oil baroness surpasses Oprah as the world’s richest black woman: The new leading lady is oil baroness Folorunsho Alakija from…

Borrowing a page from failed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, GOP political jester John Sununu has put his foot in his mouth once again, saying that Democrats won thanks to voters dependent on government handouts, the Huffington Post reports. The former New Hampshire governor and Mitt Romney campaign surrogate said Tuesday that Democrats and President…