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Rikers Island guard Nicole Bartley may end up in prison for trying to sneak marijuana into the jail for an inmate.

Calling out Newton, Romanowski tweeted: "You will never last in the NFL with that attitude. The world doesn't revolve around you, boy!"

There are also accusations that inmates in Flint's county jail were forced to drink toxic water months after the fact.

Franchesca "Chescaleigh" Ramsey explains why the contributions of Black Americans should be celebrated.

During his final State of the Union address last month to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama said that the U.S. is on track to eliminate new HIV/AIDS transmissions by 2020.

Spelman College President, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell said the school plans to be more diligent in investigating cases of sexual assault.

Referencing both New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and ongoing police violence in America, the video also shows police officers surrendering to a Black child in a hood, while the words "Stop Killing Us" appears in graffiti in another scene.

The former leader of the NAACP Ben Jealous will offer his endorsement of Democratic Party presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Friday. The endorsement will be announced at an event in New Hampshire, where Sanders and his top rival, former First Lady Hillary Clinton, are campaigning. Reports The Washington Post: The backing of Jealous, 43, who […]

The music world is reeling with the news that Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White has died at the age of 74. White, who served as both a singer and songwriter for the legendary band, leaves behind one of the richest musical legacies of all time. White, a native of Memphis, Tenn., got his […]

A civilian oversight panel ruled Tuesday that LAPD officers were justified in the shooting of Black unarmed homeless man Charly Keundeu Keunang writes The Guardian. Keunang, who lived on the streets of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, was shot six times which included two shots to the chest reports the oulet. The Los Angeles police commission held a […]

Food and beverage manufacture Nestlé admitted that they use slave laborers from Thailand and The Ivory Coast to harvest their products.

The state of Georgia will put the death its oldest inmate convicted in connection with a murder in 1979. Brandon Astor Jones, 72, convicted in the death of a convenience store manager in an Atlanta suburb during a botched robbery, was set to be executed at 7 PM ET Tuesday. Jones was scheduled to be put […]