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  • Memphis, Tenn., Dance Coach Arrested for Exposing Student to HIV

    A Memphis, Tenn., dance coach has been arrested after police allege he had sex with a minor while knowingly having HIV. John Conner III, 27, was arrested and charged with charged with criminal exposure to HIV, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor and statutory rape by an authority figure. WREG reports that last year Conner…

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  • 29 Injured in Bomb Explosion in the Heart of NYC

    A powerful explosion rocked a bustling New York City neighborhood and injured at least 29 people Saturday, and another suspicious device was discovered blocks away and safely removed, according to various news reports. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ruled out any connection to terrorism but called the blast “intentional.” “Tonight, New York City…

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  • Desmond Tutu Rehospitalized in South Africa

    Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been readmitted to a South African hospital after being released just days ago after a weekslong stay, according to CNN.The 84-year-old Nobel laureate and retired archbishop had spent three weeks in a Cape Town hospital after having minor surgery. On Saturday, Tutu’s family said that the surgical wound itself started showing…

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  • Iman Shumpert Raps That He Will ‘Take a Knee’ During Anthem

    Iman Shumpert, whom half the population knows from basketball, the other half as Teyana Taylor’s boo (as seen in the shower in that sexy “Fade” video), has released a rap record saying that he’s going to “take a knee for the anthem.” Shumpert, of the NBA championship-winning Cleveland Cavaliers, has a new track called “His Story”…

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  • 6 Rikers Guards Jailed in Vicious Inmate Beating

    The shoe most certainly now sits on the other foot as six former New York City correction officers at Rikers Island, the city’s notoriously violent jail, were themselves jailed Friday after being sentenced for the ruthless beating of an inmate there, according to the New York Daily News. The six men convicted included a former…

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  • Man Who Shot at George Zimmerman Convicted of Attempted Murder

    A Florida man was found guilty Friday of attempted second-degree murder for shooting at George Zimmerman in a 2015 road rage incident, CNN reports. Matthew Apperson, 27, was also found guilty of shooting into a vehicle and aggravated assault with a firearm, and faces a minimum of 20 years in prison because the crime involved…

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  • The Conversation on Slavery and Its Legacy Has a Place at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

    Thomas Jefferson. The mention of the name of our nation’s third president, for some Americans, brings to mind the Declaration of Independence, the founding of our country and Jefferson’s home, Monticello. For many others, his name is inextricably linked to a woman who could not access the independence guaranteed by the declaration he penned: Sally…

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  • Steve Jobs’ Widow Gives 2 Los Angeles Teachers $10,000,000 to Start School for Homeless and Foster Kids

    Two teachers in Los Angeles—Kari Croft, 29, and Erin Whalen, 26—have won $10 million in XQ: The Super School Project, a high-school-redesign competition funded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, according to the Los Angeles Times. The school will be geared to homeless and foster children. RISE, the name of the project, stands for Revolutionary…

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  • The Root’s Young Futurists, Where Are They Now: Chance the Rapper

    We. Love. Chance. Chancelor Bennett, also known as Chance the Rapper, is a 23-year-old who is soaring high within the music industry, even without a record deal. From his first mixtape, 10 Day, which was released in 2012, to his 2016 release, Coloring Book, the artist has defied the odds as a self-released superstar. The best…

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  • Police Looking for Man Who Charged $12,000 on Stolen Credit Cards

    This summer, a man stole two elderly women’s wallets on two different instances in Maryland and bought almost $12,000 worth of items on their credit cards, the Washington Post reports. The man stole a 71-year-old woman’s wallet in Bethesda in July and charged a $5,000 blue Santa Cruz bicycle to one of her credit cards.…

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