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Deputies responded to reports of a shooting at a Florida high school, and there are reports of victims, The Broward County Sheriff announced on Twitter. The shooting was reported at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, […]

Almost 20 years after she kidnapped a newborn baby girl from a hospital room in Florida, Gloria Williams has confessed to her crime. The 52-year-old pleaded guilty in a Jacksonville courtroom Monday to abducting baby […]

Andrew “Rube” Foster  was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues.  Most notably, he organized the Negro National League on this day in 1920, the first long-lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers which operated from 1920 to 1931. […]

Boston’s police department is facing backlash after posting a tweet that honored a white basketball coach for Black History Month. The since-deleted tweet commended the late Celtics and legend Red Auerbach, for being the first NBA coach […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has officially gone off the chain. According to a government transcript of a speech he delivered on February 7, Duterte said Philippine soldiers should not kill women rebel fighters. “Tell the soldiers, there’s a […]

When hackers gained access to one of Equifax’s portals, thanks to its failure to patch a software vulnerability, the personally identifiable information of more than 145 million consumers was compromised. That data included, among other […]

Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organizations focused on the alleviation of global poverty. Tuesday, 12 January 2010, a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, causing the deaths of 160,000 people. The government of Haiti estimated that 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed […]

Shame on you Loyola University. A sign posted earlier this week at the Damen Dining Hall on the university’s Rogers Park campus had encouraged students to “Try our African American cuisine popular in the African American […]