On Sunday, police in the Northern state of Punjab, India, said they have arrested seven men for the gang rape of a woman on a bus. This crime follows a similar sexual assault of another young woman in New Delhi who was gang-raped by a group of men on a bus, including the driver, and…

On Saturday, Haitian President Michel Martelly and former U.S. President Bill Clinton marked the third anniversary of Haiti’s disastrous earthquake with a quiet ceremony of wreath-laying, according to the Daily News. While urging locals to remember the victims of the natural disaster, Martelly also thanked the international countries who lent support in the aftermath of…

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, currently serving a life term in prison, will receive a retrial. Al Jazeera reports that this opportunity may give the dictator, who was found guilty last year in the deaths of protestors in 2011, a chance at a verdict of not guilty. No date has been set for the start…

(The Root) — I’m really proud of Lena Dunham. No, we’re not friends in real life, and, no, we don’t even follow each other on Twitter. But if one can feel a certain delight, then disappointment, empathy and finally pride in a stranger’s work, then that’s exactly how I feel about the 26-year-old writer-director-actress as…

In the midst of the conversation raging about gun control and the possible renewal of an assault-weapons ban, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow warns Americans to pay careful attention to the radical language some extremists are using. These extremists make sensible, reasonable gun control hard to discuss, let alone achieve in this country,…

As critics tussle over what Django Unchained and Lincoln say about black people’s history in America, Colorlines contributor Dexter Gabriel writes that the depictions are more a reflection of how African Americans see ourselves in this day and age. Hollywood’s turning point came with the social upheavals of the 1960s. As early as 1946, African Americans launched…

Who would most Americans pick in a presidential election battle between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie? Pollsters say it’s closer than one might think, according to Politico. According to a survey from Public Policy Polling, Clinton leads Christie 44 percent to 42 percent in a hypothetical 2016 race — within…

Sunday marks the centennial anniversary of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and members are traveling to Howard University in Washington, D.C., in droves to celebrate, reports the Washington Post. Founded at Howard by 22 African American undergraduates on Jan. 13, 1913, the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority has more than 200,000 members. Notable Deltas have included…