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On Friday, Oklahoma high school graduate Micah McDade accomplished two amazing milestones. 

Vallejo, Calif., police are asking the public for help with any details about a father who is suspected of purposely igniting a fire that killed his 5-year-old son and injured other family members over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times reports. 

June is almost here—that means sunny skies, warm weather and black music, of course!

For Black Music Month, The Root and McDonald’s will honor and celebrate the music (and musicians) of the African Diaspora with Studio Sessions at The Root. This video series will feature contemporary artists from a gamut of genres: global, hip-hop, soul—we’ve got you covered. And each in-studio performance will be paired with an artist interview and exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

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The family of baseball star Tony Gwynn is blaming the tobacco industry for the death of the Hall of Famer, who succumbed to salivary gland cancer in 2014, and filed a lawsuit Monday in San Diego Superior Court, the Washington Post reports. 

A Virginia middle school student has been suspended from school, charged with larceny and ordered to appear in juvenile court for “stealing” a 65-cent carton of milk that his mother says was free.

Bless her heart: It’s been mighty rough for Tamar Braxton within the last year.

The gun used to kill Trayvon Martin has been sold for $250,000 according to the shooter, George Zimmerman, who notes that he reneged on an initial deal when a higher offer was received.

A California 2-year-old whose family fought to keep him on life support after he was declared brain dead, has reportedly been transferred to another hospital.

When Judge Barry G. Williams found Officer Edward Nero not guilty of all charges Monday in the case involving the death of Freddie Gray, Nero put his head in his hands and sobbed.

Let’s face it. Black voters are about the only folks in 2016 who haven’t lost their damn minds.

In this day and age, there is little reward in seeking the truth, and less profit in sharing that truth once you have found it. So it’s remarkable that a program like Jazz and Spirit could ever come together, much less on a world-renowned stage like Harlem’s Apollo Theater. On Saturday, a great philosopher in Cornel West and a great musician in Arturo O’Farrill came together on that stage to explore how spoken word and Afro-Latin jazz can combine to still the troubled waters of an age where commercialism... Читать дальше...