Новости за 18.05.2016

A grand jury has declined to bring charges against a former Texas police officer involved in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old David Joseph, who was unarmed and naked, the New York Daily News reports. 

A Chicago 13-year-old girl is facing first-degree murder charges after stabbing another teen to death with a knife provided by her mother, during a fight on the South Side over the weekend, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Last week, NBC News ran an op-ed from Danielle Moodie-Mills, a very smart sista whose stuff you should be reading, titled “Does the Revolution Begin With a Free Black Child?” In the piece, she identifies the sartorial and behavioral eccentricities of young black celebrities—including Jaden Smith, Willow Smith and Zendaya Coleman—as indicators of a growing black liberalism that challenges the white American status quo.

Residents in a Jackson, Miss., neighborhood awoke on Monday to discover fliers advertising a Ku Klux Klan neighborhood watch in the area to help provide protection.

As the defense finishes its arguments in the trial of Officer Edward Nero over the death of Freddie Gray, more questions have been raised than answers. 

A Nigerian schoolgirl who was among the more than 270 kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram more than two years ago has been found, officials announced Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. 

Stop reading if any of this sounds familiar: A young woman moves to Texas seeking a fresh start, ends up in jail, and because she's unable to post bail, stays in police custody for weeks until one day she's found unresponsive in her cell.

With its new series, Inside the Label, BET has put its own spin on the music-genre series popularized by VH1’s Behind the Music and TV One’s Unsung by spotlighting the business and creative synergy behind the music so many of us love. To kick off its first installment, the docu-series looked to Uptown Records, the label started in the mid-1980s and really hit its stride in the early 1990s, that gave the world Al B. Sure!, Heavy D, Mary J. Blige, Jodeci and, yes, Sean “Puff Daddy/Puffy/P. Diddy” Combs. Читать дальше...

Because George Zimmerman won't just go away, he's now criticizing Trayvon Martin's parents, the Black Lives Matter movement, and Hillary Clinton.

It was definitely a major coup for Johnson C. Smith University, one of the nation’s HBCUs, to snag Oprah Winfrey as its commencement speaker. And she certainly delivered with down-to earth wisdom, her own inspirational stories and lessons from leaders from Martin Luther King Jr. to Maya Angelou.

It’s complicated.

First comes love, then comes marriage—and everyone knows what happens after that. Children are the expected outcome of matrimony. Now that gay marriages are legal, the kids of their unions are subject to even more scrutiny, on top of the years of criticism from socially conservative groups like Focus on the Family and Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.