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President Barack Obama will deliver one of his last commencement addresses as president to the 2016 graduating class of Howard University in Washington, D.C., according to the White House.  The commencement is scheduled for Saturday, May 7, and needless to say, the HBCU is excited to have him.  “It is an extraordinary honor and privilege…

CNN has obtained video footage of some of the girls kidnapped from a girls school in Chibok, Nigeria, that had apparently been sent to negotiators as “proof of life.”  CNN reports that the video had been seen by negotiators and some members of the government, but the parents of the girls had not seen the…

The trial of Dylann Roof, charged with murder in the shooting deaths of nine churchgoers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last summer, has been delayed and is now rescheduled for Jan. 17, 2017, Reuters reports.  Judge J.C. Nicholson said that he was obligated to once again delay the trial because…

“Affluenza” teen Ethan Couch, who recently turned 19, has been ordered by a Texas judge to serve nearly two years—720 days—in a county jail, the Associated Press reports.  Couch appeared in adult court Wednesday in Tarrant County and was ordered to serve four consecutive 180-day terms, one term for each of the four people killed…

It’s not quite clear what exactly Sprint was trying to accomplish with its ill-fated, rather tasteless ad, but a few hours of Twitter outrage took care of the controversial video: It was pulled Tuesday night, the Washington Post reports.  The carrier has, of course, been duking it out with other telecommunications companies, namely AT&T, Verizon…

The owner of a tire shop in Ann Arbor, Mich., is coming under quite a bit of fire after trying to defend himself for saying that he doesn’t want the business of black or “ghetto” people, Mic reports.  It all started when Ypsilanti resident Madison Callanan left a negative Yelp review about her experience at…

The Kappa Alpha Order at Tulane University has come under fire since constructing a wall of sandbags around its frat house last Thursday, boasting pro-Donald Trump slogans like “Make America great again,” USA Today College reports.  According to the report, the wall was dismantled Tuesday, with the fraternity insisting that the wall was meant as a…

The Waller County, Texas, jail where Sandra Bland died in July is in serious need of an upgrade, according to a report issued Tuesday by a panel put together after Bland’s death, the Associated Press reports.  The panel noted that the jail needs a new building, more expertise is needed among staffers in identifying mental-health…