President Barack Obama on Saturday celebrated Africa’s growth and potential while opening a business summit in Kenya, the East African nation where he has deep family connections. The Global Entrepreneurship Summit, co-sponsored by the United States and Kenya at the United Nations headquarters in Gigiri, was convened by Julie Gichuru, a local TV host and…

In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a Pennsylvania attorney claims that at least 80 African Americans and other minority employees at American Airlines in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., were the victims of racial discrimination, according to NBC Philadelphia. The letter from the Philly-based Mildenberg Law Firm, which represents maintenance, catering and baggage…

Scuffles broke out Saturday at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia after members of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally to protest a decision to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the Statehouse, reports Al-Jazeera. About 100 members of the KKK and other white supremacist groups were greeted by about 400 African-American…

More damaging information about Bill Cosby surfaced Saturday with the publication of previously undisclosed testimony in which the actor himself describes how he took sexual advantage of young women. In stunning detail, the fallen 78-year-old television icon describes how he used his fame, drugs and manipulation to ensnare women to satisfy his sexual whims, according…

America is used to seeing President Barack Obama in his role as a world leader, but rarely as a father. On Saturday he changed things up, traveling to New York City with Sasha and Malia to spend some “father time” with his daughters and to attend a fundraiser, according to the New York Daily News.…

Since Friday, two men were killed and at least 17 other people were wounded in shootings on Chicago’s South and West sides, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Last weekend, six people died and 26 were wounded in shootings in Chicago, reports the Chicago Tribune. That’s not all. An estimated 135 more people have been shot…

A North Carolina man who covered his home with Confederate flags after the Charleston, S.C., church massacre was arrested on a parole violation and put behind bars this week, according to the Daily Mail. The man, Edward Lee West, 69, of Rocky Mount, N.C., was taken to Nash County jail on Wednesday on a probation-violation…

A trooper violated Texas Department of Public Safety procedures and the agency’s courtesy policy when he stopped Sandra Bland, who was jailed and days later was found dead in her cell in what police are calling an apparent suicide, reports Reuters. The trooper has been put on desk duty during an investigation by the FBI…

The mistress of former NFL player Buster Barnett reportedly killed his wife and herself after a miles-long police chase from Georgia into Alabama, according to 11Alive, WXIA. Lisa Brown reportedly kidnapped Sandra Barnett, 49, at her Ellenwood, Ga., home just outside Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, escaping in a Dodge Durango reportedly owned by Buster Barnett.…

Ohio’s 8th District Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed an activist group’s effort to have a judge issue arrest warrants for two white Cleveland police officers in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, according to The Associated Press. The activists, calling themselves the Group of Eight, had submitted affidavits asking Municipal Judge Ronald Adrine…