Friday, Aug. 8, was a big day for Kizzie and Charles Davis. It was the day they opened Ferguson Burger Bar & More on West Florissant Avenue for the first time after taking it over from the previous owner, they told The Root Monday. But the next day, they were saddened to learn that Michael…

Updated Saturday, Aug. 16, 1:57 p.m. EDT: In an effort to show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Mo., the Rev. Al Sharpton Saturday rallied at his New York City, Harlem-based civil rights headquarters alongside the family of a Staten Island man who was also slain by a police officer, CBS New York reports. Family members…

A day after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak an international emergency, Nigeria put out a call for medical volunteers to help stop the spread of the deadly virus, Agence France-Presse writes. In Lagos, Nigeria, the largest city in Africa’s most populous country, officials said they needed volunteers because of a shortage of…

Nearly six months after 8-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C., her whereabouts are still unknown, and the police investigation appears to have stalled, the Washington Post reports. The prospect of finding her alive is poor, police have said, especially after a man in whose company she was last seen was…

Billionaire Donald Trump said doctors in the U.S. should not treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, and called on airline officials to ban all flights from countries where the deadly disease has been known to spread, Sky News reports. He was responding to reports that a U.S. doctor and a missionary arrived this week…

Just as the Republican Party is trying to fine-tune its image amid the escalating immigration battle, a prominent Alabama Republican has come out swinging against Democrats, accusing leaders of waging a “war on whites,” The Hill reports. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks made the assertion Monday on the air with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. He…

Ever since filming a New York City Police Department officer placing 43-year-old Eric Garner in a fatal choke hold last month in Staten Island, N.Y., Ramsey Orta’s life has been a living hell, he told a judge Monday. Orta, 22, was arrested late Saturday on a weapons possession charge after police observed him exiting a…

On the football field, Michael Strahan was known for hitting quarterbacks on their blind side, the Daily Mail writes. But last weekend the gridiron star was the one who was blindsided when word leaked that he and his longtime fiancee, Nicole Murphy, were calling it quits a day before he was slated to be inducted…

At first it appeared that a veteran United Airlines flight attendant died brutally at the hands of her daughter’s boyfriend, who was looking to grab some fast bucks, according to reports by various news outlets. But now her pregnant teen daughter has been charged alongside her boyfriend in a grisly plot involving greed and revenge…

Concern over the latest Ebola outbreak continued to mount Monday after Nigeria’s health minister confirmed a second case in a doctor who treated a victim last month in Lagos, one of Africa’s most populous cities, according to Reuters. The doctor had treated Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last month after arriving by plane from…