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  • Mass. Cop’s Wife Fakes Home Robbery, Blames BLM

    The wife of a Millbury, Mass., police officer is accused of faking a robbery and vandalizing the couple’s own home with “Black Lives Matter,” graffiti, CBS Boston reports. On Oct. 17, Maria Daly reported a burglary at her home, saying that jewelry and money had been stolen. She also reportedly said that her house was…

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  • #NoDAPL: Indigenous Youths Occupy Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn, NY, Headquarters

    Almost simultaneous with the militarized police raid in North Dakota on Thursday, Native American youths took over the campaign headquarters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn, N.Y., to demand that she oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.8 billion oil pipeline not far from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. So far,…

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  • Another Jury Finds Link Between Baby Powder and Cancer

    For the third time this month, pharmaceutical conglomerate Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict over whether the talc in its baby powder causes ovarian cancer. The Associated Press reports that a St. Louis jury awarded $70.1 million to Deborah Giannecchini of Modesto, Calif., who was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer…

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  • Mary J. Blige Opens Her Concerts With Headlines of Kendu’s $129K Alimony Ask

    In more “Kendu be buggin” news … It appears that on her current King and Queen of Hearts Tour with R&B crooner Maxwell, singer Mary J. Blige is opening her shows with photos of tabloid headlines from her divorce drama. Her estranged ex, Kendu Isaacs, says that such public displays are a “campaign to destroy” his…

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  • Trump Calls Black Supporter a ‘Thug,’ Throws Him Out of NC Rally

    An African-American North Carolina man was thrown out of a Donald Trump rally Wednesday night and called a “thug” by the Republican candidate himself. No surprise there, except that Rocky Mount, N.C., resident C.J. Cary is a rabid Trump supporter and has even faced off with his neighbors over his choice in this year’s presidential…

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  • Rikers Island Guards Convicted in Beating and Cover-Up

    Four guards at New York City’s Rikers Island jail have been convicted in connection with the beating of an inmate and a cover-up effort, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, Christopher Huggins, 34, and Michael Dorsainvil, 36, were convicted of filing false records and assault; Ronald Donnelley, 63, and Mark Anglin, 38, were found guilty of…

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  • Did My Black Ancestor Move Farther South During Slavery?

    I am trying to trace the roots of my paternal great-great-grandfather, Lucien Joshua. He relayed to the census taker in 1900 that his parents were born in South Carolina. At the time of the census, he lived in Ascension Parish. According to oral history accounts given by older relatives in my family, Lucien changed his name…

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  • Md. Nanny Force-Fed 8-Month-Old Until Baby Died: Report

    Eight-month-old Enita Salubi died after her nanny, Oluremi Oyindasola, 66, allegedly force-fed the baby until she became unresponsive and  died, the Washington Post reports. Oyindasola, of Glenarden, Md., was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death and other charges, the Prince George’s County, Md., Police Department announced Wednesday. Oyindasola was…

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  • 15-Year-Old Admits to Shooting 17-Year-Old in DC: Report

    Kevin Jackson, 17, was shot Sept. 1 after an argument with a 15-year-old foe on a Southeast street in Washington, D.C., according to the Washington Post. That night, the 15-year-old left the argument but returned with a gun, shooting at Kevin a few times, the Post reports. Kevin was hit once in the back of the head.…

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  • The Miseducation of the White Man: How Our Education System Failed White Voters

    My first job after college was teaching kindergarten. For a decade I worked as a kindergarten teacher and then as an elementary school principal. Now I am a professor charged with preparing teachers and administrators. The 2016 presidential election is the first time that every one of my approximately 2,000 former K-12 students are of…

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