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Security was increased on Howard University's campus after an anonymous post threatening to kill students was posted online.

Check the latest polls and see neurosurgeon-turned-wannabe-president Ben Carson surf on a sudden wave of black support. Not that black people are voting anytime soon in the Republican primary. 

In the wake of recent events at the University of Missouri, a troubling trend has emerged on social media. A number of black folks have decided that now is an appropriate time to openly question the college choices of the black students who enrolled at Mizzou, as well as other blacks who attend predominantly white institutions for school rather than HBCUs.

A Detroit McDonald's employee who lured an elderly homeless to the drive-up window with the promise of a sandwich, only to throw water on him, has been fired after video of the incident went viral, upsetting many who watched it.

A 67-year-old Tennessee woman was arrested and is now facing serious charges after pulling a gun in a Wal-Mart parking lot on a man who was asking for a lighter, News Channel 5 reports.

We get a lot of history about Lucious' childhood trauma in this episode. Lucious has taken on such a villainous role that the show may be trying to redeem him by explaining what made him this way. Lucious is so unlikable that he's past the point of no return in my eyes, but his tale is tragic. At least Cookie seems happier and more fun than she's been in a while, and Jamal appears to be shifting away from the dark side.

A video uploaded to Facebook shows the moment when six Australian teens were denied entry to an Apple store and told to leave because staff and security were worried they "might steal something."

Around 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, a 13-year-old South Carolina boy was home alone when a car pulled up behind his house. The driver stayed in the car while an armed man exited the vehicle and began walking toward the home. The teen did not know the men, but knew where his mother kept her gun, so he ran and grabbed it. As the armed man tried to break the back door, the teen opened fire, hitting the man, who dropped his gun and ran back to the car.

A Georgia man whom police say shot and killed a pregnant woman appeared before a judge, who denied him bond on Monday, News4Jax reports. 

One evening, when I was 7 years old, my mother served peas for dinner. I hated peas with a passion. I ate everything else on my plate and then stared at the peas for a good 20 minutes. My mom made it clear that eating the peas was nonnegotiable.

Ben Carson has had a rough couple of weeks. The intense media scrutiny of his biographical claims – from attempting to stab a relative to receiving a scholarship to West Point – have called into question his personal story of redemption. His assertions that the Egyptian pyramids held grain, Islam is incompatible with the Constitution, and prison culture proves that being gay is a choice, among other controversial statements, have raised questions about his suitability to be the President of the United States. Читать дальше...