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ATLANTA — Calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a potential threat to global security, President Barack Obama (pictured) is ordering 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the stricken region amid worries that both the financial and human cost of the outbreak is spiraling out of control. Obama also called on other countries to quickly supply […]

OMAHA, Neb.  — A doctor who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia – the third American aid worker sickened with the virus – arrived Friday at a Nebraska hospital for treatment. SEE ALSO: Protect and Serve: Cop Ignores Mom When He Stumbles Upon Kidnapping Officials at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha have said […]

There was little violence after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin‘s killer last July. Peace prevailed when at least four other unarmed black males were killed by police in recent months, from New York to Los Angeles. Then Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri. And waves of rioting have convulsed the St. Louis suburb […]

  After teen Michael Brown’s fatal shooting by a police officer on Saturday, riots on Sunday, the Brown family holding a  press conference on Monday, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announcing that they are investigating the shooting also on Monday, now President Barack Obama (pictured) has released the following statement regarding the incident. […]

  FERGUSON, Mo. — A candlelight vigil for an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer was followed by unrest as crowds looted and burned stores, vandalized vehicles, and taunted officers who tried to block access to parts of the city.   Streets in Ferguson upended on Sunday […]

FERGUSON, Mo. — A local NAACP chapter has called for a federal investigation into the death of a Black teenager who was shot by police in a St. Louis suburb. Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed Saturday afternoon near his grandmother’s house by a Ferguson police officer. St. Louis County police have not given […]

Focusing on the importance of having a substantive conversation about girls’ education in Africa Wednesday afternoon, First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured) spoke with an audience of 500 participants in President Barack Obama’s Mandela Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) summit before meeting with a select group during a roundtable. RELATED: Empowering Africa’s Next Generation of Leaders […]

  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  — When a film student decided to revisit his criminal teenage past, he found a powerful ally in filmmaker Spike Lee (pictured).   Lee was among Darius Clark Monroe‘s professors at New York University’s film school, when Monroe revealed to him that he had committed a bank robbery when he was […]