According to the New York Times, major eyewitness, Willie Louis, of the Emmett Till trial died yesterday at 76. The truck was going “real fast,” Willie Reed testified, as it came down the main road near Drew, Miss., on an August morning. Emmett Till was murdered in 1955. A green and white 1955 Chevrolet — […]

When Jonathan “Tig” Willard (pictured) was driving from South Carolina to Tennessee on Tuesday to fight for a roster spot with Tennessee Titans, he noticed an…

On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured) referenced the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965…

They are starting younger and younger. DC police are looking for a 12-year-old armed robbery suspect who allegedly stuck up a man at gun point…

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Early Tuesday morning, Akua McClaine was having a seizure but her five-year-old son knew what to do: call 911. SEE ALSO: D.L. Hughley To Return…

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When Morgan Lake (pictured) sat obliviously in her car as traffic on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge (pictured below) moved at a snail’s pace, something told her to look in…

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O.J. Simpson goes before a Nevada parole panel Thursday to plead for leniency in his 2008 kidnapping and robbery case, but even a favorable decision won’t spring the former football star from prison. Simpson was sentenced to consecutive terms on several charges. But some of his sentences were ordered to run concurrently – two counts each […]

Dr. Gregory Ellison’s (pictured), a 36-year-old assistant professor of theology at Emory University, efforts to engage and enlighten young Black men are noteworthy considering the…

World Youth Day (WYD) is a gathering of young people from all over the world with the Pope. It is a meeting to build and…