BBC News is reporting that the US and Cuba are to start talks to normalize diplomatic ties in a historic shift in relations between the two countries, US officials say. The US is also looking to open an embassy in Havana in the co...
Ebony Magazine is undeniably one of African American culture’s most influential and immediately recognizable brands. For seven decades, the brainchild of iconic entrepreneur, John H. Johnson, has revolved around covering black new...
Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic is reporting that the Albuquerque Police Department is one of the most brutal police departments in the country, routinely violating the constitutional rights of its citizens. A federal investig...
Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post is reporting that Washington, DC will begin a three-day farewell ceremony in honor of former mayor and current city council member Marion Barry, who died on Nov. 23 at age 78. Barry was a contro...
BBC Africa is reporting that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has replaced his interior minister and police chief following a massacre by Islamist group al-Shabab. The author writes: “The president asked Kenyans to unite, and...
CBS News is reporting that the grand jury decision over the alleged choking death of Eric Garner by NYPD police officer Daniel Pantaleo is imminent. The video evidence presented to the grand jury depicts Garner being apprehended ...
BBC News is reporting that at least 25 people are reported to have been killed in an explosion in north-eastern Nigeria’s Adamawa state. The author writes: “Some reports said the blast was caused by a roadside bomb and...
Writing for Smithsonian Magazine, Abby Callard is reporting that the family of murdered teen Emmett Till has donated the casket in which he was buried to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Cult...
The Wall Street Journal has pulled together the grand jury documents regarding Officer Darren Wilson’s killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, 18. Click here to read the transcripts which are broken up into 24 volumes. In...
Mike DeBonis and Martin Weil of The Washington Post are reporting that former Washington, DC Mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry has died after a brief stay at Howard University Hospital. His death was announced by ...
