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Residents from Lyndhurst, New Jersey were appalled to find recruitment letters from the Ku Klux Klan sprawled throughout their small town last weekend, the New York Daily News reports.

The family of Jahi McMath, the teen who was declared brain-dead after complications from sleep apnea surgery, shared an update about her status on Thursday.

A week after Malia Obama made headlines for standing in proximity to a game of beer pong while visiting Brown University, the campus newspaper has issued an apology. “It is a shame that Malia was unable to visit Brown and enjoy herself at a party without several news headlines coming out about it the next […]

Earlier this year, LeBron James announced that he would be providing over 1,000 scholarships to University of Akron students through his LeBron James Family Foundation. This caught the attention of First Lady Michelle Obama who invited LeBron to be apart of her new “Better Make Room” education initiative. Designed to encourage and empower students to continue […]

A Chicago family wants a daycare shut down after their baby girl was reportedly locked inside alone on Monday evening.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A nonviolent past and lack of hard drug use were factors cited by a judge who lowered bond for a man accused of failing to tell authorities all he knew about a friend accused of massacring nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church. U.S. Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges lowered Joey […]

Black Lives Matter, a movement sprouted from the racial mistreatment of police officers towards men and women of color, was targeted by Fox News host Sean Hannity this week when he compared them to the Ku Klux Klan.

In sad news, the mother of Freddie Gray attempted suicide earlier this week. CBS Baltimore reports: WJZ has confirmed with multiple sources that Gloria Darden, the mother of Freddie Gray, tried to take her own life late Wednesday night. The call came in around 9:35 p.m. Wednesday for a person needing medical attention in North Baltimore. Sources […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Politicians were nearly booed off the stage at a rally when they promised a full and fair investigation into a police officer’s fatal shooting of a black man who played the drums in churches and bands and worked as a public housing inspector. The crowd of several hundred people […]

A shooting that left one person dead at Tennessee State University started after an apparent dispute over a dice game, police have said. CNN.com reports: Two others were injured in the shooting at an outdoor courtyard at the campus in Nashville. They were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, said Kelli Sharpe, a university spokeswoman. The wounded […]

Experts are now questioning what levels of solitary confinement are appropriate for inmates and whether this type of punishment is constitutional.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, and that “we, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously.” Obama said the movement, which sprung up after the deaths of unarmed black […]