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Cam Newton is not your father’s quarterback. He is a fun-loving, flamboyant-dressing, dab-dancing, Southern-sounding, in-your-face figure of black awesomeness who is rubbing white journalists all kinds of raw.

Gianni Graham may be small, but the 9-year-old girl from Norfolk, Va., clearly has a big heart: She has made a New Year's resolution to collect 1,000 Barbie dolls to give away to 1,000 girls in foster homes and shelters across Hampton Roads, Va., WTKR reports. 

Monntel West was just trying to kill time on Friday while he waited for a friend at Lansing Mall in Michigan, when he started tinkering around with the piano at the east end of the mall.

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the historic Charleston, S.C., church that was struck with tragedy last June after a gunman killed nine people during Bible study, has a new pastor, the Associated Press reports. 

I did not know Janese Talton-Jackson on a personal level. There’s a chance I might have seen her before. And a lesser chance I might have spoken to her. But if I did either, I don’t remember.

A mother of two was followed to her car, shot and killed after she reportedly rebuffed a man's advances in a Pittsburgh bar.

Gainesville, Fla., Police Officer Bobby White was dispatched to a Gainesville neighborhood last week after a neighbor called to report that children were playing too loudly. When the officer arrived, he saw several children playing basketball. He joked with the kids about someone calling the police on them and then proceeded to shoot hoops with them. On Thursday, dash-cam footage of the friendly game of hoops was posted to the department's Facebook page with a message: "We're going to let kids be kids. Читать дальше...

The game was over. The Carolina Panthers had completely destroyed the Arizona Cardinals, 49-15, and Terry Bradshaw was trying to do a postgame interview with Cam Newton. The crowd at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.,, was still buzzing and yelling, when their 6-foot-5-inch, 260-pound "Super Cam," as he is sometimes called, walked over to the microphone and let out a yell, whipping the crowd into hysterics.

Don Cheadle was nominated for an Oscar for Hotel Rwanda, in 2004. He lost to Jamie Foxx for his performance in Ray. Next year, Academy voters will have to seriously consider Cheadle for his passionate portrayal of jazz legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead. But the actor, director, co-writer and co-producer of the film, told The Root he is not looking for accolades.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, stands to the left of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on some issues. But many wonder whether he, after serving a state with few minorities, truly understands the concerns of African Americans.