Rosa Parks once said that she’d rather be murdered at a young age than be subjugated by her racist countrymen, and that’s just one thing most might not know about the woman who refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, writes Charles M. Blow in the New York Times. On the verge…

(The Root) — When someone you love dies, the first question to escape before the grief hits you in the throat is often, “Why?” Why her, why now, why me, why not someone else? Nothing could be truer of the sudden death of musical icon Whitney Houston, who, after appearing on the upswing following years…

As Chuck Hagel endures the grueling confirmation process for the defense secretary position, BET.com David Swerdlick writes that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice was actually shrewd in withdrawing from the process completely. Hagel will still likely be confirmed, but his lackluster testimony may have exposed him as having been out of politics…

Kerry Washington doesn’t just rule Thursday-night television as Olivia Pope on Scandal; the actress and activist made the NAACP Image Awards hers on Friday night as well. Washington took home three awards for her thespian efforts as well as her work off-camera, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The star of ABC’s “Scandal” picked up a…

After a 30-year career with the Secret Service, Director Mark Sullivan is expected to announce his retirement soon, reports NBC News. Sullivan has served as director since 2006 during the Bush administration. The agency found itself in the middle of a controversy after a prostitution scandal during President Obama’s trip to Colombia in April 2012.…

When teenager Malala Yousufzai was shot for speaking against the Taliban last year, her struggle did not go unnoticed. Now she may become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, reports NBC News. Her name was put forward by three members of the Norwegian parliament from the ruling Labor Party on their…

The University of Southern Mississippi is on the verge of creating history by possibly hiring Rodney Bennett as their first black president, reports USA Today. It’s a fact not lost on Southern Miss interim President Aubrey K. Lucas, whose service to the school dates to a period when black students were not even admitted to…

As many said goodbye to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday, the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, was attacked. On Saturday a leftist Turkish group, according to Reuters, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, blaming their motivations on America’s foreign policy. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C) said it carried out Friday’s attack,…