A New York City police officer has been placed on leave following the beating of a street vendor that was caught on camera, reports Colorlines. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the media that the yet-to-be-identified officer has been suspended and relieved of his police duties. The vendor was beaten during a street fair in the…

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer responsible for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, has reportedly testified in front of a grand jury. Following a report from StL Today, Fox 2 Now stated that Wilson spoke to the grand jury for four hours on Tuesday. StL Today reporter Robert Patrick learned of the…

It’s nice that the NFL hired outside consultants to advise the league on its policies regarding players who are involved in domestic violence incidents, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson believes it is incredibly inappropriate that all of the consultants are white, Al-Jazeera reports. The league recently announced that Lisa Friel, Jane Randel and Rita Smith—three…

Four black Americans will be among those receiving a no-strings-attached, $625,000 stipend—paid out in installments over the next five years—to keep doing what they do best: being geniuses. That’s right, the MacArthur Foundation named 21 “extraordinarily creative people” as the 2014 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellows Program—widely referred to as the “genius” grants. Four…

Why are my hands bleeding? I think I know why/ I’ve been holding on/To the words from your every lie. The fact that Chris Brown happens to release a brand-new album with graphic lyrics like this during what might be the world’s worst week for famous black men and domestic violence has got to be…

The World Health Organization and the United Nations sent out the equivalent of an emergency distress signal Tuesday after reports that the number of people in West Africa infected with the Ebola virus now nears 5,000. More than 2,400 people have died from the disease, the New York Times reports. What’s even more alarming is…

There’s an ascending player in the cluster of nonprofit organizations that help high-achieving students from low-income families get into the best colleges in the nation, and it’s employing a simple strategy to entice qualified students: If you get into the school of your choice, you get to go for free, the New York Times reports. And for all four years, might I add. When the…