The manager of popular Chicago rapper Lil Durk was shot and killed early Friday as he sat in a parked car on Chicago’s South Side, just hours after meeting with Chicago Bulls star Joakim Noah about the athlete’s anti-violence initiative, according to Homicide Watch Chicago. The incident occurred when Uchenna Agina—known as Chino Dolla and…

Seven people were shot and critically injured early Saturday after mayhem erupted at a spring-break house party in Panama City Beach, Fla., according to USA Today. The coastal community is known as “the Spring Break Capital of the World,” the report says. Bay County Sheriff’s deputies are still trying to determine what sparked the shooting,…

At the annual Black Girls Rock ceremony Saturday in New Jersey, Michelle Obama celebrated “the beauty, power and tenacity of black women while spreading her own message of education,” the Associated Press reports. “No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful,” Obama told the crowd of mostly young black…

St. Louis police are searching for an African-American man in his 20s who assaulted a white man Monday supposedly for declining to answer a question about Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was fatally shot last August by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., CNN reports. The attack occurred late Monday aboard a…

Detroit residents gathered Friday to bid farewell to two siblings whose bodies were found this week in a freezer—allegedly put there by their mother—and to call on the community to unite against child abuse, according to the Detroit News. Autopsies conducted Friday on Stoni Blair, 13, and her brother Stephen Berry, 9, determined that they…

Nearly two weeks after issuing a strong condemnation of a racist chant that reverberated across the nation and resulted in the closing of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, SAE leaders on Friday acknowledged that the song was likely taught at a national event four years ago, CNN reports. Members of the group’s…

Taraji P. Henson was roundly applauded on social media this week over actions she took after claiming that police in Glendale, Calif., racially profiled her son, Marcell, during a traffic stop. In a recent interview with Uptown magazine, she said she was sending her son to Howard University after he was profiled on the campus…

The Justice Department announced Friday that it would be bringing civil rights charges against the student suspected of tying a noose around the neck of a statue depicting an African-American civil rights leader stationed on the campus of the University of Mississippi. According to a DOJ press statement, Graeme Phillip Harris, a former freshman at the school,…

Two Chicago-area cousins have been arrested and charged by federal authorities with plotting to orchestrate an attack against a U.S. military facility, the Associated Press reports. Hasan R. Edmonds—a 22-year-old National Guardsman in Illinois—and his cousin, Jonas M. Edmonds, 29, communicated their plans to undercover federal agents, authorities said. Hasan Edmonds was en route to Egypt,…