A father’s love knows no bounds. Demetrius Johnson’s last known words to his family were, “I’m not going to let my son die.” The 24-year-old Buffalo, N.Y., man had rescued his fiancée and two of his kids but died Friday when he ran back into a raging fire to save his 3-year-old son, reports the…

It appears that President Barack Obama, possibly inspired by the adorable viral hashtag #ObamaAndKids this weekend, caught wind of a popular video showing a little girl crying when she learned that he was leaving office next January. The Facebook page belonging to the little girl’s grandmother Caprina D. Harris shows a video of her totally…

Hillary Clinton won Nevada’s Democratic caucuses Saturday, according to the Associated Press, holding off an unexpectedly difficult challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. In a race that many initially called too close to predict, Clinton eked out a victory over Sanders (52 percent to 48 percent with 75 percents of precincts reporting), and most likely…

Albert Woodfox, the last incarcerated member of the Angola Three, was released from prison on his 69th birthday, CNN reports. Woodfox was going to a third trial for the 1972 slaying of prison guard Brent Miller at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola but pleaded no contest Friday to lesser charges, according to a statement.…

A few weeks ago, the Internets got broke when a photo of the North Carolina A&T women’s swim team burned up social media—a beacon of beautiful #BlackGirlMagic for all the world to see. Unfortunately, not long after that, it was announced that that swim team would be no more, because the school’s regular conference does…

We are still seeing many “firsts” in the year 2016, and higher education is no different. Harvard University announced Friday that Michelle A. Williams will become the first black person to head a faculty at Harvard and the first female dean of the School of Public Heath, come July. Williams, who is currently an epidemiologist…

A proposed bill allowing all Virginia law-enforcement officers’ names to be withheld from the public would be the first of its kind in the country and is being decried by police-accountability groups and those who believe in freedom of the press, reports the Virginian-Pilot.  A Jan. 13 proposal put forth by Republican Virginia state Sen. John…

Ann-Marie Campbell has been in her job as executive vice president of Home Depot’s U.S. stores since the top of the month. In her new post, Campbell oversees almost 400,000 employees in 2,000 stores. She replaced veteran exec Marc Powers in mid-January. Jamaicans.com reports that Campbell, 50, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and graduated with…

In his last Black History Month in the White House, President Barack Obama will mix it up with, and for the first time ever convene, a group of civil rights leaders who span the generations—both from the newer Black Lives Matter movement as well as leaders of more established civil rights organizations. According to a senior…

Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner announced Friday that he’ll close a troubled youth detention center, a move being praised by juvenile-justice advocates, according to the Chicago Tribune. Located in Kewanee, about 150 miles southwest of Chicago, the downstate facility houses mentally ill youths and those charged with sex crimes. The Tribune notes that about 43…