Today, as the Morehouse College Class of 2016 celebrates its 132nd graduation ceremony, it will honor three young men who collectively have been named its valedictorian—including one young man who is not black. Liam R. Davis, Ian Niemeyer and Willie J. Thompson each graduated with a 4.0 grade point average from the nation’s largest liberal arts…

The New York City Department of Education, the country’s largest (and most segregated) school system, will use Democratic Rep. John Lewis’ graphic novel series, March, to teach its students about the civil rights movement. As part of the department’s Passport to Social Studies curriculum, eighth-grade teachers will use March to talk about the time from…

Who could forget the heartwarming story of Leah Still, daughter of Texans defensive lineman Devon Still, who has bravely battled cancer? Her dad, then a Bengals tackle, told of Leah’s incredible fight against neuroblastoma at the 2015 ESPY Awards, where he received the Jimmy V Perseverance Award and left nary a dry eye in the…

A Tacoma, Wash., teen who was savagely assaulted by a police officer in a mall parking lot is suing the officer who perpetrated the acts against her, according to the Seattle Times. Monique Tillman, then 15 years old, was yanked from her bike, had her hair viciously pulled and was then choked, thrown to the…

A Columbia University student has not been seen since she was seen studying for her finals on the Ivy League campus in New York City on May 4, according to the Washington Post. Nayla Kidd, described as a “loving and sweet-spirited” young woman who taught a popular belly dancing class on campus, has been published…

A sorority at Samford University near Birmingham, Ala. (not Stanford University in California, to be clear), is in hot water for producing T-shirts that have a black man eating a watermelon plopped under people picking cotton, reports the New York Daily News. Alpha Delta Pi was advertising its spring formal and featured a “vintage-style map”…

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Actor Michael B. Jordan is reportedly set to join the Black Panther cast, reuniting for the third time with director Ryan Coogler, who worked with him on Fruitvale Station and Creed, according to the Hollywood Reporter. This will not be the first time Jordan has played a comic book…

A 70-year-old New Jersey mother and her seven grown children pooled $6 and bought a lottery ticket in Trenton, N.J. That ticket hit the Powerball for $429.6 million. Valerie, Marcia, Steven, Jacqueline, Tracy, Kathy, Renee and their mother, Pearlie, revealed themselves as the eight winners of the Powerball jackpot on Thursday, according to Lawrenceville Patch.…