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Authorities are responding to an “active shooter” situation in San Bernardino, Calif., involving up to three suspects that has left at least three dead and multiple wounded, NBC Los Angeles reports. 

Four Memphis, Tenn. police officers gave back a little when they surprised an 11-year-old boy with a new Xbox after his old one was stolen from his home. 

Dear Demetria:

With the trial of William Porter set to begin Wednesday, the first of six trials in the death of Freddie Gray, it is clear this will be no ordinary case. This is in part to the fact that Judge Barry Williams, 53, is no ordinary judge.

Years of systematic framing of young black men for various crimes have been uncovered thanks to efforts by the Alabama Justice Project, which obtained documents revealing that a Dothan, Ala., Police Department's internal-affairs investigation showing the abuse of power was covered up by the Dothan district attorney, the Henry County Report notes.

A majority black jury will decide the fate of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter, who was one of the officers indicted in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, the Huffington Post reports. 

Turns out, selling out doesn’t always come with a clear conscience. We all knew that Mary Jane’s “I didn’t sell out; I bought in” line was hollow words. M.J. finally figured it out, and it only took one self-righteous, conscious college student to do it.

A Texas man who was charged in the gruesome death of a toddler who was found severely burned after her siblings put her inside an oven acknowledged that he and the children's mother left them alone, but only for a short while, KHOU-TV reports.

A Kean University alum has been charged with making false threats against black students at the school last month and is facing one count of creating a false public alarm, the Associated Press reports. 

As far as iconic black-cast plays and musicals go, few are as universally loved as The Wiz. The initial soulful production of the American classic on Broadway in 1975 won seven Tonys and made Stephanie Mills a star. Her rendition of “Home” is still a classic. In 1978 the film version from Motown and Universal Pictures, starring Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, flopped, but eventually, through continual television airings, it also became beloved. And now, in 2015, The Wiz is back again. Читать дальше...

If, in 1982, shortly after Alice Walker’s landmark novel, The Color Purple, was published, someone had forecast that the book would be turned into a movie, then a Broadway musical, then revived in London and brought to Broadway again, that someone would have been carted away or at least had his or her crystal ball doubted for a long time.

Don’t let my Neon Carrot crayon complexion fool you. Both of my parents are Negroes.