culture
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SCLC Revisits Berlin and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speech on Nonviolence
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is a fixture in American history, a name often spoken when discussing where we’ve come as a nation. However, King’s influence extends far beyond our borders, across the Atlantic, all the way to Germany. King’s impact on Germany comes in the form of his speech on nonviolence that he delivered…
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White House Intrusion Again Shines Spotlight on Secret Service
The Secret Service came under new scrutiny Friday after a man scaled the White House fence and made it all the way into the building before he was apprehended, the Associated Press reports. President Barack Obama and his daughters had just left Friday evening when the man climbed the north fence, dashed across the lawn…
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Sierra Leone on 3-Day Lockdown in Ebola Battle
In what is being called one of the most sweeping lockdowns against a contagion since the Middle Ages, Sierra Leone on Friday began confining an estimated 6 million people to their homes in hopes of stopping the spread of Ebola in the West African nation, USA Today reports. During the lockdown, thousands of health workers…
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Police: Killer Thought 9-Year-Old Was Lookout
Nine-year-old Antonio Smith stormed out of his family’s apartment on Chicago’s South Side in a fit of anger when his mother refused to get him a cupcake on a warm summer day in August, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That’s when he encountered a group of men driving around in two vehicles in search of…
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Chicago Backtracks on Naming School for Obama
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has canceled plans to name an elite new high school for his former boss, President Barack Obama, the Chicago Tribune reports. Emanuel, Obama’s first White House chief of staff, said Thursday that he would consider other names for the selective-enrollment high school set to be built near the site of the…
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How The Cosby Show Changed the Game for Blacks on TV
Thirty years ago The Cosby Show changed what was possible if you were black and on television, that you didn’t have to play to type and there truly was a universality of the human experience. You could finally be anything—a doctor, a lawyer, a homeboy in outer space. With the right talent and support, any TV…
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2 Florida Teens Found Dead and Tied Together on Roadside
Florida police were called early Thursday morning after witnesses made a gruesome discovery of two Tampa teenagers whose bodies were bound together and tossed onto a roadside. According to ABC Action News, Angelia Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha Ball, 18, who were reportedly friends, were found around 1 a.m. A witness told the news station that the…
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Chicago Man Confesses to Killing Girlfriend’s Mother in Bali
The Chicago man imprisoned in Bali, Indonesia, has confessed to his part in the grisly killing of his girlfriend’s mother, police said, according to the Associated Press. Tommy Schaefer, 21, along with his girlfriend Heather Mack, 19, were arrested in the Indonesian province after Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s body was found stuffed in a suitcase in…
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Cher Sued: Choreographer Claims Singer Made Racist Remarks
There are only a few singers large enough to pull off one name, and on Thursday, one of the largest, Cher, was hit with a lawsuit from three former backup dancers, alleging racism, ageism and retaliation. According to the Associated Press, choreographer Kevin Wilson, who is black and was a dancer on the singer’s current Dressed…