Nineteen-year-old Tony Robinson, whose death sparked protests over a week ago when the unarmed man was gunned down by an officer in Madison, Wis., was eulogized Saturday. Nearly 1,000 people attended the afternoon funeral in the auditorium of Madison East High School, which had additional seating in the gym, where mourners watched the ceremony on…

Eight-year-old Relisha Rudd was last seen March 1, 2014, in Washington, D.C. She was in the company of Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the homeless shelter where she was living with her family, and who police say killed his wife and then himself. The second-grader’s case highlights hardships that homeless children endure at some shelters.…

A Chicago man has been arrested after allegedly raping a woman he met online and her friend, and then lecturing them about prostituting themselves, reports CBS Chicago. Jonathan Ferguson, 23, was charged Thursday with armed robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon. He was ordered held on $250,000 bail by Cook County, Ill.,…

Nearly a year ago, a University of Maryland student identified as a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity sent an email to six people, bragging about all the women he wanted to have sex with during rush week, the Baltimore Sun reports. The writer allegedly noted which races he didn’t want invited and used racial and…

Creflo Dollar Ministries has pulled a Web page soliciting money for a new $65,000,000 Gulfstream G650 jet following a big social media backlash, reports Atlanta’s WXIA-TV. The page disappeared after the fundraising effort suffered a huge social media backlash, including commentary from The Root’s Kirsten West Savali, who condemned the campaign, saying, “Negro, please.” But…

New York City police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old Syracuse University student who was found dead Saturday in her hotel room in New York City’s Times Square, the New York Daily News reports. Sabrina Cammack, a senior on the school’s track team, was discovered dead about 9:20 a.m. in her hotel room at…

In an audio message published Saturday on the Twitter account of Nigeria’s Boko Haram, the terrorists pledged allegiance to another group of terrorists: the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria, according to the Huffington Post. The recording features a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abu Bakr Shekau pledging support to the…

In a story that will be told for generations, a mother and daughter recently gave birth just 34 minutes apart at the same hospital, according to a release from Tampa General Hospital in Florida. Angela Patram, 37, and Teranish Billups, 20, both gave birth Feb. 19 at the hospital. Patram’s fifth child, Rayna Simone Patram, was…

It was a hoax. That’s what police say about a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who claimed she had been raped Saturday by a black man, the New York Daily News reports. She recanted her story just hours after stumbling, tattered and scratched, into an emergency room at 2:15 a.m. Saturday, the report says. Police tell the…

A 19-year-old African-American man was unarmed when he was shot and killed Friday by a white officer in Madison, Wis., the Associated Press reports, renewing the national debate about aggressive policing in the black community. Protests erupted over the shooting and lasted throughout the day Saturday. The teen, Tony Robinson, was shot after allegedly assaulting…