Yvonne Wenger of the Baltimore Sun is reporting Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired police commissioner Anthony W. Batts due to the surge in violence in Charm City. Wenger reports: “We cannot grow Baltimore wi...
AllAfrica.com is reporting 48 people were injured and 44 people died in multiple explosions in Jos on Sunday. Popularly referred to as J-town, Jos is a city located in the middle belt of Nigeria with nearly 1 million residents. Th...
The Atlantic is reporting six black churches have been set on fire over the last week. The burnings are happening just days after nine people were murdered at a historic black church, Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcop...
USA Today is reporting that Bree Newsome, a black female activist, climbed a flagpole Saturday in Columbia, S.C., and briefly removed a controversial Confederate battle flag from in front of the Statehouse. USA Today reports: R...
Reuters is reporting that two sheriff’s deputies and a healthcare worker have been indicted in the death of Matthew Ajibade, 21, who was killed while in police custody in Savannah, GA. Jason Paul Kenny, Maxine Evans and Greg...
Multiple media outlets are reporting a white man showed up at the door of the United Nations Church International in Richmond, VA, yelling racial slurs, beating on the doors and threatening to kill all of the members of the black ...
Jeff Amy of the Associated Press is reporting Graeme Phillip Harris has pleaded guilty to hanging a noose on a campus statue of James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Miss. Amy writes: Harris, who is white, pleaded guilty ...
CNN is reporting President Barack Obama called the nine deaths in the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting “senseless murders” Thursday, and suggested more gun control was needed in the wake of the incident. R...
A white man walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic African-American church in Charleston, and opened fire during a Bible study class, killing nine people Wednesday evening. The shooter was there for abo...
Tensions are high in the Dominican Republic, and communities around the world are watching. The deadline for Dominicans of Haitian descent to produce paperwork to apply for legal residency has passed, and many are worried about wh...
