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  • Ferguson Grand Jury to Reconvene Monday

    Still deciding whether to indict Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, a St. Louis County grand jury is expected to reconvene Monday, Yahoo News reports. Downtown STL Inc., a  civic group that promotes St. Louis businesses, told members in an email Saturday that the grand jury will reconvene…

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  • Former DC Mayor Marion Barry Dies at 78

    Marion Barry, the storied four-term mayor and current Washington, D.C., Council member, died early Sunday, just hours after a brief stay at Howard University Hospital, the Washington Post reports, citing a family statement. He was 78. The family did not release the cause of death, but Barry had suffered from many health problems over the…

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  • What’s in a Name: Whites Like ‘African Americans,’ Don’t Like ‘Blacks’

    White Americans apparently do not have a problem with the ethnic label of “African American,” but “black” is a different story, according to a report at Pacific Standard magazine. Ethnic labels for people of color, such as “African American” and “black,” determine just how whites perceive them, according to a new study titled “A Rose by Any…

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  • Adrian Peterson Ponders Leaving Vikings Amid Child Abuse Charges

    In the midst of a major investigation into accusations of child abuse, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson says his departure from the team could be best for him and the organization, the Associated Press reports. Peterson thinks the coaches and players stand behind him, acccording to AP, citing a report from USA Today. But, the…

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  • NYPD Rookie Kills ‘Totally Innocent,’ Unarmed Man

    In an apparent effort to ease tensions as protests rage across the nation over police violence against blacks, New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Friday called the death of a “totally innocent,” unarmed black man an “unfortunate tragedy,” The Guardian reports. “What happened last night was a very unfortunate tragedy,” Bratton said of the…

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  • The Queen Latifah Show Canceled in 2nd Season

    As a result of low ratings and high costs, The Queen Latifah Show has been canceled, the Daily Mail reports. The daytime talk show, now in its second season, will stop production at the end of the year, though new episodes will continue to air through March, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Sony Pictures…

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  • Ernie Cobb Still Fighting to Clear His Name in One of Sport’s Biggest Scandals 

    Thursday, March 22, 1984. At 11:05 a.m., U.S. District Judge Leonard Wexler completed his instructions to the jury in the Federal Court Building in Brooklyn as Ernie Cobb awaited his judgment. Thoughts continuously raced through Cobb’s mind: How had he arrived here, he wondered, of all places, charged with allegedly conspiring to commit sports bribery…

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  • Model Janice Dickinson Releases Photos of Bill Cosby in a ‘Patchwork’ Robe

    Celebrity news site TMZ reports that it has obtained pictures of Bill Cosby from 1980s supermodel Janice Dickinson, who claims that she took Polaroids of the TV icon shortly before he sexually assaulted her—an accusation that she went public with in an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday. Here’s part of Dickinson’s description of the alleged…

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  • House GOP Sues Obama Administration to Stop ‘Unilateral Actions’ on Obamacare

    House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced Friday that Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have sued President Barack Obama’s administration to contest “unilateral actions on the health care law that they say are abuses of the president’s executive authority,” the New York Times reports. At issue is enforcement of two critical facets of the Affordable Care…

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  • Can I Find the Slave Ports Through Which My Ancestors Came?

    I am an amateur genealogy enthusiast seeking help with my family tree research. How can I find records of slave trading in the U.S.? I know my grandparents on both sides of the family were born in Mississippi and Tennessee, but I’m pretty sure their parents didn’t arrive straight from Africa or the Caribbean to…

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