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Ferguson, Mo., swore in its first African-American police chief Monday, and although the new chief had been ready for retirement, after seeing the unrest caused in the wake of Michael Brown’s death, he said that he felt a calling to take this job and help restore order. “My plan was to retire in September and…

The families of the nine people killed in the mass shooting inside a Charleston, S.C., church last year aren’t pleased with the distribution of donations the church has received since the June 17 shooting. The wife of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator and Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor who was…

A Russian ice cream company has started selling frozen chocolate ice cream bars called Obamka, or “Little Obama.” The outside packaging shows a little brown-skinned boy wearing a yellow shirt and a hoop earring and holding an ice cream, the Moscow Times reports. Despite obvious tension between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin,…

Bayan Zehlif is a Muslim high school student at Los Osos High School in California, and like most high school students, she was excited to get her yearbook. When she turned to the page that held her photo, she was shocked to see that she had been identified as “Isis Phillips.” “I am extremely saddened,…

University of Alabama at Birmingham running back Gregory Bryant, found shot in South Florida, has been declared brain-dead, police say. According to the Associated Press, Bryant, 21, was driving on Interstate 95 when he was shot. He was found around 4:45 a.m. Saturday. Passenger Maurice Grover, 25, was hospitalized with minor injuries. West Palm Beach,…

The Zulu Nation moved to distance itself from its founder, Afrika Bambaataa, by announcing that it will change its leadership and focus on victims of abuse, according to the New York Daily News.  Initially the group rushed to Bambaataa’s defense when accusations of child molestation surfaced in late March.  He himself claimed that the allegations…

President Barack Obama: Thank you! Hello, Howard! [Applause.] H-U! Audience: You know! Obama: H-U! Audience: You know! Obama: [Laughter.] Thank you so much, everybody. Please, please, have a seat. Oh, I feel important now. Got a degree from Howard. Cicely Tyson said something nice about me. [Laughter.] Audience member: I love you, President! Obama: I…