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A few tidbits about Queen Sophia Charlotte, Britain's first Black Queen.

Plus, on Election Day, Washington D.C. residents will vote on becoming the 51st US state and federal judge says North Carolina must restore voter registrations of those removed from polls.

We're pretty sure that Shonda Rimes is thrilled!

Police believe that Christian Clark, 21, was upset because she thought her boyfriend was sleeping with another woman.

Beyoncé performed at the 50th Annual Country Music Awards on Wednesday night with fellow Texans and country supergroup, The Dixie Chicks.

After seeing a wee trick-or-treater dressed as the recently departed Prince, President Obama belted out a (very soulful) few lines of “Purple Rain” as he dropped a few goodies in his Halloween pumpkin.

Kenya has hosted the world’s first albino beauty pageant to help combat the persecution albinos face in many East African nations including Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Malawi. In certain African nations, albino people face persecution and even death from communities who fear them.

Derrick Deacon, 61, was wrongfully convicted in 1989 of robbing and killing a man based on a faulty eyewitness who received $1,000 in reward money.

Black riders are denied service more often than Whites and women of all races are cheated into paying higher fares.

An esteemed African-American chemist dies in a home fire. George Nauflett is credited with earning at least 26 patents.

This weekend was the deadliest so far this year in Chicago. Between Friday afternoon and early Monday morning, nearly a dozen and a half people died, and 42 were injured by gun violence, outpacing last year in shootings and homicides. Of the 17 people who were killed, seven were younger than 20.

Plus, Trump calls Black supporter a ‘thug,’ throws him out of N.C. rally and more than 140 #NoDAPL water protectors arrested overnight.