A Washington state man identified as William Cunningham is facing felony hate crime charges after video footage captured him hurling racial slurs as he threatened a Black student who was involved in an altercation with his daughter and her boyfriend.  The incident in the Seattle exurb of Monroe, Washington, occurred nearly two months ago on…

Essence Preparatory charter school in San Antonio falls prey to state’s law limiting how schools teach about race A proposed Texas charter school almost became a casualty of the state’s battle over critical race theory towards the end of last summer, recently unveiled public records show. Administrators for Essence Preparatory Public School in San Antonio…

Nigeria has witnessed more than 10 attacks on schools in the past year Gunmen have released 30 Nigerian students who spent nearly seven months in captivity, a government official has said, the latest batch in the release of the dozens of Kebbi state students abducted in June. They arrived at the Kebbi state capital on…

New York City is the first major U.S. city to grant widespread municipal voting rights to noncitizens More than 800,000 noncitizens and “Dreamers” in New York City will have access to the ballot box — and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year — after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to automatically…

OPINION: The brilliant legal scholar was so much more than her failed nomination to be assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. The academic and legal world lost a brilliant mind and an amazing human being when longtime Black scholar and Harvard professor Lani Guinier died on Friday. Carol “Lani” Guinier…

Virginia Spencer to serve three months A North Carolina woman who brought her 14-year-old son into the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot was sentenced Friday to three months imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she finds it “very hard to comprehend” why Virginia Marie Spencer and her husband took their child into the…

Denzel Washington shared his take on “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo’s story of the two clashing heads while he guest directed an episode of the long-running series, and although the moment is fuzzy in his mind, it still doesn’t quite match the actress’ recounting. The two-time Academy Award-winning actor directed a 2016 episode of Shonda…

Dominick Black, 20, has agreed to plead no contest to contributing to the delinquency of a minor to avoid a felony conviction, according to multiple sources. The Wisconsin man who purchased the semiautomatic rifle that his friend Kyle Rittenhouse used to fatally shoot two men and wound a third in August 2020 has accepted a…

Researchers at the University of Cyprus recently identified 25 cases of what they’re calling “deltacron” A new combination strain of the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19 was recently discovered in the Middle East, Bloomberg News reported Saturday. A team of researchers at the University of Cyprus in the island country Cyprus has identified 25…

Sha’Carri Richardson’s fans defended the track star on Jan. 6 after uploading a natural hair video.  The Black community defines natural hair as when an individual does not alter the hair texture they were born with by using chemical straighteners such as relaxers and texturizers. Those who still press or flat-iron their tresses are considered natural after…