President Barack Obama is slated to meet with the oldest living World War II veteran in honor of Veterans Day, USA Today reports.  Richard Overton, 107 years young, wondered out loud one day last May while touring the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., what it would…

The gunman had a beef with the guys gambling in the back of Al’s Barber Shop in Detroit, so he strapped on body armor and shot into the crowd of people Wednesday evening. At least one man in the crowd returned fire. In total three men were killed and six were wounded. The police have…

When you offend the most notorious hate group in the United States of America with your Halloween costume, you might have gone a smidge too far. As it turns out, the Ku Klux Klan isn’t at all impressed, honored or pleased by a 7-year-old Virginia boy’s Halloween costume, which imitated the long, white robes of…

In an interview with New York magazine, Roots star LeVar Burton had one simple question about the History Channel’s intended remake of the popular 1970s miniseries: “My initial reaction was, why?” Burton said in the interview. The actor proudly spoke of the original TV drama, saying that it wasn’t “just art for art’s sake” but,…

If you’re curious about how the beloved TV political drama Scandal will end, you may not have to be curious for much longer. Creator Shonda Rhimes told NPR in an interview that in her head, the show has a “clear expiration date,” and she knows how it’s going to end. “I feel like there is…

There are more poor people living in the United States than the official numbers detail, a revised census measure shows, according to the Associated Press. According to the new measure, which attempts to provide a fuller picture of poverty, there are 3 million more poor people in the U.S. than the official figures show, making…

Lonnie Johnson, founder of the Atlanta-based company Johnson Research and Development Co., has been awarded almost $73 million in royalties from Hasbro, Inc., the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, settling a long royalties dispute with toy-making giant. “In the arbitration we got everything we asked for,” attorney Leigh Baier told the Journal-Constitution. “The arbitrator ruled totally in…

It seems as if this year the big screen cannot get enough of black narratives. But Oprah Winfrey and other Hollywood heavyweights are not impressed. According to the Huffington Post, it’s a pattern they are all too familiar with. Every once in a while black-themed, often black-produced films make waves in award ceremonies and movie…

Howard University, one of the nation’s most-famed HBCUs, has not been having a good year, and some fear the faculty and university are losing their spirit. This comes as the school’s Faculty Senate voted no confidence on the school’s Board of Trustees, NPR reports. “All of the negative news has not been good for [the…

Online daters are more open to dating someone of a different race if the other person initiates contact, a study has found, according to New York’s Daily News. The study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that the users of the free online dating site OKCupid were more likely to…