culture

Houston police say that a group of men in a truck who smashed into a beauty store and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of expensive weaves and wigs may have also done the same type of smash-and-grab at a cellphone store later the same morning. Authorities told Click 2 Houston that the high-priced hair heist…

Dr. Kent Brantly, a doctor who contracted Ebola in Liberia during a Christian mission before being flown back to the U.S. this past week for treatment, appears to be “improving,” according to Dr. Thomas Frieden, who appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday. “It’s encouraging that he seems to be improving,” Frieden, director of…

I hate to use the term “acting out,” so I’ll say that my 3-year-old daughter is expressing a brand-new feeling that she doesn’t know how to articulate: heartbreak. And maybe even desperation. It’s understandable. She wants a mother.  This is just the latest development in what’s been a long, and often hard, story for our…

On Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT, join us for our live “Young, Black and Viral” Google Hangout, where we’ll be chatting with three of the Internet’s most influential young black creators. We’ll be joined by the following folks: Xavier D’Leau, executive producer of the award-winning Web series Quarter Century and host of the top-charting podcast…

The 22-year-old bystander who filmed Eric Garner’s fatal arrest was arrested Saturday on a charge of gun possession, Staten Live reports. The man, Ramsey Orta, and a teenage woman, identified by police as Alba Lekaj, were arrested about 10 p.m. after leaving a hotel in Staten Island, N.Y., the report says. The arrests came after officers…

Decked in a T-Shirt emblazoned with the names of murdered black men, including Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin, British singer and producer Devonté Hynes alleges he was attacked by security guards after a recent performance at Lollapalooza, Buzzfeed reports. Hynes, known as Blood Orange, announced on Twitter that he and his girlfriend, Samantha Urbani, were assaulted…

The first Ebola victim brought to the United States from Africa arrived in Atlanta, Ga., Saturday amid hysteria and outrage from some Americans concerned that the deadly disease could escape an isolation unit at one of the nation’s top hospitals and spread, the Associated Press reports. Dr. Kent Brantly, a missionary doctor who was infected…

Bruce Lawson thought he was bidding farewell to his 81-year-old mother last week at her funeral in Houston, Texas, KHOU11 reports. That’s why he was surprised when he received a call several days later saying her body was still at the funeral home, the report says. Mabrie Memorial Mortuary was calling to apologize, the news…

In the aftermath of the choke hold death of Eric Garner, some more officers with the New York Police Department may be in hot water after allegedly dragging a half-naked Brooklyn, N.Y., woman into the hall after responding to a domestic disturbance call, the New York Daily News reports. A police spokesman told the News…

Update: Saturday, Aug. 2, 2:53 p.m. EST: The Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday that he will lead a protest “march across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City later this month in response to a medical examiner’s ruling that Eric Garner was the victim of a homicide after police placed him in a chokehold last…