Haitian lawmakers on Sunday chose the country’s Senate chief as president of an interim government, reports the Washington Post. In the early hours of Sunday, Jocelerme Privert was elected as provisional president and sworn in by Haiti’s legislature. Privert was one of three candidates vying to lead an interim government that’s only supposed to last…

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday at a West Texas ranch, reports My San Antonio. According to reports, Scalia, 79, arrived at the Cibolo Creek Ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people. When he did not appear for breakfast, a person associated with the ranch…

Some wisenhammer got the bright idea to bring back rapper Drake’s first on-screen character, Jimmy Brooks, from Degrassi: The Next Generation, with a clip featuring Kevin Hart’s head superimposed onto another character. The 15-second short, in which Drake’s character, Jimmy (before his character became paralyzed), took on a bully on a basketball court, was a…

On Saturday the Hampton University Pirates will make history as the first HBCU to compete in Division I lacrosse. They will face the Roberts Wesleyan College Redhawks at 12:30 p.m. EST. As part of Black History Month, ESPN’s SportsCenter on the Road will originate from Hampton’s campus from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and provide pregame coverage, but…

A Nigerian woman traveled all the way to Brooklyn, N.Y., to deliver her healthy triplets Thursday morning, reports the New York Daily News. Temitope Alao had been trying to conceive for about six years, and at about eight months into her pregnancy, she gave birth to two boys and a bouncing baby girl. The 34-year-old welcomed…

The World Health Organization announced Friday that a commercial test for the rapidly spreading Zika virus could be available in weeks. Heretofore, only the Centers for Disease Control and a few health departments in various states were able to definitively diagnose the enigmatic virus spread by mosquitoes and via bodily fluids through sex. “Although it…

Two major African-American activists made their presidential endorsements known Friday as former NAACP head Benjamin Jealous released a statement sanctioning Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. On the same day, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump threw his support behind Sanders’ rival in the race, Hillary Clinton. Jealous, who went to New Hampshire on Friday to stump…

Voter suppression gets a blow as as a federal court panel ruled Friday that two of North Carolina’s congressional districts were racially gerrymandered and must be redrawn, reports the Charlotte Observer. The ruling, handed down by a three-judge panel, has sparked uncertainty about whether the March primary elections can proceed as planned. The order bars…